Murder On The Orient Express Cast

[Handrejka 1,904]

I meant to start this last year after Bacall's death and the 40th anniversary of the film.

 

There aren't many of the cast still with us, thought I'd start a thread to see what is what as I think we'll lose at least one more before the end of 2016.

 

Sean Connery - born 1930 has had throat cancer in the past and is rumoured to have dementia of some sort

Albert Finney - born 1936 , kidney cancer

Michael York - born 1942 amyloidosis

Vanessa Redgrave - born 1937, not aware of any health issues.

Jacqueline Bisset - born 1944, not aware of any health issues

 

I think that's all the main ones who are still with us

 

I knew there was someone else, Vernon Dobtcheff born 1934, still working

[Sean 6,330]

Connery and Finney are proably the most likely to die out of that lot.I know Vanessa Redgrave is a chainsmoker and that she had a bad chest infection several years back but I could easily see her sticking around for a good decade or so yet.

[charon 4,943]

York has gotta be first up surely ?

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Well, here's Albert Finney's Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

[Book 3,557]

Sad news. I really liked him as Hercule Poirot, as I liked the whole movie and the whole cast!

 

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Just now, Book said:

Sad news. I really liked him as Hercule Poirot, as I liked the whole movie the the whole cast!

 

I could watch this film and the performances over and over. Finney is quite simply magnificent.

 

Maybe someone needs to do a cast list for the remake, which I haven't seen, but why remake a superb movie?

[Book 3,557]

1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

I could watch this film and the performances over and over. Finney is quite simply magnificent.

 

Maybe someone needs to do a cast list for the remake, which I haven't seen, but why remake a superb movie?

 

YES, the movie is really stylish and has an atmosphere of its own!

 

The remake is really ok, I can't say anything bad about it (ok, the mustache of Kenneth Branagh was absolutely too much!)

[msc 18,477]

16 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

I could watch this film and the performances over and over. Finney is quite simply magnificent.

 

Maybe someone needs to do a cast list for the remake, which I haven't seen, but why remake a superb movie?

 

I think that and And Then There Were None are so actor friendly that new adaptations every decade or so are cool. Get to see new folk in the roles. Like how Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Attenborough and Charles Dance all have fun playing the same role.

 

Incidentally, in news for you and Toast, Sarah Phelps is back! The Pale Horse for 2020. Don't all get too excited at once. Apparently she got contracted for 5, so this is the last one. Not going to get her version of a Murder is Announced (the lesbian are axed), Endless Night (the gypsies did it all along) or Crooked House (

Obviously if the killer in Ordeal wasn't realistic she ain't having no 10 year old serial killer

)...

[Book 3,557]

It's a very young cast (except maybe Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi).

 

2017 Cast:

 

Daisy Ridley (*92)

Derek Jacobi (*38)

Johnny Depp (*63)

Josh Gad (*81)

Judi Dench (*34)

Kenneth Branagh (*60)

Leslie Odom Jr. (*81)

Lucy Boynton (*94)

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (*81)

Marwan Kenzari (*83)

Michelle Pfeiffer (*58)

Olivia Coleman (*74)

Penélope Cruz (*74)

Sergei Polunin (*89)

Tom Bateman (*89)

Willem Dafoe (*55)

[ThePrematureBurial 224]

54 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, here's Albert Finney's Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

Such a great loss! I'm really sad. I enjoyed his performances as Hercule Poirot & Tom Jones. And I loved "Two for the road".

He suffered from kidney cancer since 2011. His last years must have been difficult. 

Perhaps we will see how his former wife Anouk Aimee (born 1932) is doing these days. I hope she's healthy enough to come to his funeral.

 

 

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Sad News  A truly great actor with some really indelible performances. The best Poirot by far. Loved The Dresser and Erin Brockovich. He was one of a kind. RIP!

[Book 3,557]

3 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Sad News  A truly great actor with some really indelible performances. The best Poirot by far. Loved The Dresser and Erin Brockovich. He was one of a kind. RIP!

 

Visually yes, but there is no Poirot like Peter Ustinov!

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

8 minutes ago, Book said:

 

Visually yes, but there is no Poirot like Peter Ustinov!

of course ALL actors were unique in their own way. Acting the role of Hercule Poirot is anything bad easy. I like Peter Ustinov's portrayal character in the movies but he's not really Poirot. He's fun to watch but his characterization saw a more playful Poirot. Plus, I don't think that Poirot would have gone gray

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

Hit #4 for me.  It's been a great hits year, for me, so far. A little over a month and one week.

[Book 3,557]

4 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

 Plus, I don't think that Poirot would have gone gray

 

Good point! In fact Poirot was very snobbish, haha!!

[Grim Up North 3,726]

35 minutes ago, Book said:

It's a very young cast (except maybe Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi).

 

 

I think even Dame Dench and Mr Jacobi would accept at over 80 they were not 'very young'.

[msc 18,477]

Just now, Grim Up North said:

 

I think even Dame Dench and Mr Jacobi would accept at over 80 they were not 'very young'.

 

I so wish that Brian Blessed clip was on YouTube.

[millwall32 114]

On 13/08/2015 at 23:56, Handrejka said:

I meant to start this last year after Bacall's death and the 40th anniversary of the film.

 

There aren't many of the cast still with us, thought I'd start a thread to see what is what as I think we'll lose at least one more before the end of 2016.

 

Sean Connery - born 1930 has had throat cancer in the past and is rumoured to have dementia of some sort

Albert Finney - born 1936 , kidney cancer

Michael York - born 1942 amyloidosis

Vanessa Redgrave - born 1937, not aware of any health issues.

Jacqueline Bisset - born 1944, not aware of any health issues

 

I think that's all the main ones who are still with us

 

I knew there was someone else, Vernon Dobtcheff born 1934, still working

Bless him, but Michael York looks well-fucked.

[CastAway 488]

1 hour ago, Book said:

It's a very young cast (except maybe Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi).

 

2017 Cast:

 

Daisy Ridley (*92)

Derek Jacobi (*38)

Johnny Depp (*63)

Josh Gad (*81)

Judi Dench (*34)

Kenneth Branagh (*60)

Leslie Odom Jr. (*81)

Lucy Boynton (*94)

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (*81)

Marwan Kenzari (*83)

Michelle Pfeiffer (*58)

Olivia Coleman (*74)

Penélope Cruz (*74)

Sergei Polunin (*89)

Tom Bateman (*89)

Willem Dafoe (*55)

I should note that I wouldn't be surprised if Depp went earlier than expected, given that he apparently went off the rails sometime back and was basically drunk through the movie's filming + publicity junkets and all

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, here's Albert Finney's Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

Wonder who will be the first fucktard to ask why he wasn't on the list? 

[markb4 902]

Albert Finney's death is a sad blow for me. A hit for me on my personal DL, but a sad one nonetheless as I loved his performances especially his Poirot!

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

I can't believe that Albert Finney never had his own thread! And now never will 

[time 8,614]

No-one?

 

OK then...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albert Finis.

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Jaqueline Bisset is 75 today!

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Watching the unmissable film just now.

 

Of course Sean Connery has joined the ranks of the dead. So might as well mention that.