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Since no one else seems to be up yet, I guess I get the honor of posting this.  Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer who brought the world Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan,  dead at 91.

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Raymond Chow: Hong Kong film mogul who discovered Bruce Lee dies at 91 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46080166

 

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Andy Vajna is now missing more than a vowel, but Life itself.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-6612327/Hungarian-American-film-producer-Andy-Vajna-died-74.html

 

 

Responsible for a few Rambo and Terminator films in an impressive career.

 

 

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You know how you find an obituary and decide against posting it? And then you have another look? Well, that's what I did here.

 

Death notice for John Fortune-Fraser, who produced and acted in Sir Billi: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=john-fortune-fraser-mbe&pid=191324567

 

Why post it? Because the film was Sean Connery's last acting role before his retirement.

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Seems roughly on par with Bela Lugosi in terms of ways not to end a film career :blink:

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On 03/11/2018 at 16:45, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Since no one else seems to be up yet, I guess I get the honor of posting this.  Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer who brought the world Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan,  dead at 91.

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Raymond Chow: Hong Kong film mogul who discovered Bruce Lee dies at 91 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46080166

 


Paul Heller (wiki), the last of the three producers on Enter the Dragon (1973), dead at 93.

Raymond Chow died in 2018 and Fred Weintraub died in 2017.

Heller also worked as producer on Withnail and I (1987) and Academy Award-nominated My Left Foot (1989).

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Alberto Grimaldi, producer of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Gangs of New York amongst others has died aged 95.

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Interesting memorial to Matt White, film archivist and producer, who died on September 4 from cancer: https://realscreen.com/2021/09/17/in-memory-of-matt-white-a-tribute-to-the-late-archivist-and-producer/

 

His involvement and enthusiasm for preserving film seems to have been a catalyst for documentary makers. Producer on The Murder Of JFK: A Revisionist History and co-producer on a favourite watch of mine, Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years.

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Guardian Obit for Peter Watson-Wood, TV documentary cameraman turned film producer, aged 92: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/01/peter-watson-wood-obituary

 

Mad Dogs And Englishmen and The Wicker Tree among his credits.

 

Interestingly, the obit refers to his friendship with Anthony Newley. Leslie Bricusse just died, now this (though when exactly, I'm not going on a search). Maybe Tony Newley's Mates should be a theme team? Things come in threes, who's next?

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8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Guardian Obit for Peter Watson-Wood, TV documentary cameraman turned film producer, aged 92: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/01/peter-watson-wood-obituary

 

Mad Dogs And Englishmen and The Wicker Tree among his credits.

 

Interestingly, the obit refers to his friendship with Anthony Newley. Leslie Bricusse just died, now this (though when exactly, I'm not going on a search). Maybe Tony Newley's Mates should be a theme team? Things come in threes, who's next?

In his latter years Anthony Newley was quite matey and friendly again with his ex wife Joan Collins....I hope this isn't an omen!

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Just now, Gooseberry Crumble said:

In his latter years Anthony Newley was quite matey and friendly again with his ex wife Joan Collins....I hope this isn't an omen!

Maybe I'll pick the old Snickers snacker out of spite for next year! :lol:

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1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

Maybe I'll pick the old Snickers snacker out of spite for next year! :lol:

Might be a wise move!

If she is anything like her sister Jackie in certain regards she may well have a serious illness that she has not publicly disclosed.

 

Jackie Collins only told her daughters she had been diagnosed with cancer around 2006/2007 . When it became terminal she knew the end was near she told the rest of her family  but I think her death in 2015 was a big shock to many of her friends and Hollywood  because she'd  kept it private  for nearly nine years.  Not even her closet circle of friends in Hollywood like Alana Stewart were told.

I think while Joan is obviously her own person I think it would not be out of character  for her if she approached  a serious  illness in a similar way to her sister. 

Something for deadpoolers  to consider...

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Times death notice for Adam Clapham (wiki), aged 82, BBC director and producer of television programmes and films, including "Doomsday Gun" (1994), which starred Frank Langella and Alan Arkin.

Also wrote an illustrated history on nudists... and was surprisingly unmarried.
 

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CLAPHAM Adam peacefully on 14th October 2022, aged 82. Beloved brother, uncle and cousin, friend to many. After his long and successful career as a TV producer for the BBC and his own Griffin Productions he spent much of his retirement in his beautiful house in southern India where he had many more dear friends. Funeral private. A celebration of his life will be announced later.

 

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Ron Peck, British film producer and director responsible for the breakthrough overtly gay movie Nighthawks, and directing the 1980s movie Empire State about yuppies trying to do deals in the Docklands (which included an appearance by Martin Landau), reportedly dead: 

 

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Film producer, director and screenwriter from Singapore, Pearry Teo, reported dead: 

First Singaporean to make a Hollywood movie, The Gene Generation (with Bai Ling and Faye Dunaway), he directed Witchville (with Luke Goss) and various other horror genre movies.

 

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Scottish film producer, writer and director Douglas Eadie, reportedly dead back in March: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/4392499/douglas-eadie-film-pioneer/ and https://dct.myfamilyannouncements.co.uk/dundee/view/4904003/eadie

 

Produced Aly Bain's America and was an associate producer on Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes.

 

Birth and death dates available from the above sources in case someone wants to contact IMDB.

 

Also responsible for this public information film, on which I'm sure Bill Paterson looks back fondly:

 

 

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