Deadpool Detective Work

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

37 minutes ago, LWCZ said:

I think the guy you've sent is him. Leonard was supposedly from Mississippi (born in 1928), and this is a 1946 draft registration card of a Terrell Leonard, born in 1928 (just one day before the date written on the grave) in Mississippi, who lived in California in 1946 (the Marv Goldberg's R&B site also mentions he resided in California after 2011). That leaves all the Robins dead since 2017.

If you're only talking about the original group.

At least one replacement member is still alive – H. B. Barnum (wiki) who is 88 and seems to be in okay health as he appeared in a 2023 documentary.

Also, Billy Richard had a nephew who was briefly a member circa 1960 (just before they broke up) – "Little Billy" Richard Jr. Now I assume he is still with us, but not necessarily because even if he joined as late as 1960 (he was presumably at least 18 at the time), the youngest he'd be now is in his early 80s.

Edit: This site says "Little Billy" was born circa 1940, so let's say he's 83–85 (if still alive).

[LWCZ 188]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

If you're only talking about the original group.

At least one replacement member is still alive – H. B. Barnum (wiki) who is 88 and seems to be in okay health as he appeared in a 2023 documentary.

Also, Billy Richard had a nephew who was briefly a member circa 1960 (just before they broke up) – "Little Billy" Richard Jr. Now I assume he is still with us, but not necessarily because even if he joined as late as 1960 (he was presumably at least 18 at the time), the youngest he'd be now is in his early 80s.

Edit: This site says "Little Billy" was born circa 1940, so let's say he's 83–85 (if still alive).

Completely forgot about Barnum! Sorry for the mistake 

[The Immortal 634]

Ellen Rometsch (alleged mistress of John F. Kennedy and rumored spy) is still alive as of July 2024. I was just wondering the other day if she was still alive and decided to do some checking. After the whole spy fiasco she went back to Germany and remarried her ex-husband Rolf Rometsch and all that is known was that she lived in Bonn and a journalist tried to interview her in 2013 but she and her husband refused any kind of interview concerning her alleged affair or rumored double life. I couldn't find anything since then and seeing how privately she lives, I wasn't 100 percent sure if she was still alive.

 

Well, I do so more digging and come to find out that Rolf Rometsch died this July. I don't know how reliable the obituary source is but it's based in Bonn where he and Ellen lived and the obituary does mention an Ellen and other relatives who survived him, so I am pretty confident in saying that it's the same Ellen Rometsch here and that as of July 2024, she is alive.

[The Immortal 634]

On 11/05/2024 at 22:05, The Immortal said:

SNCF traction engineer Georges Pinquie

 

Dead. Seems like he was not as healthy as I assumed, one commenter saying he had health problems since before he retired apparently.

[Spade_Cooley 9,518]

On 05/10/2022 at 22:22, Spade_Cooley said:

There is (perhaps) a centenarian pro-wrestler we've been overlooking all this time! Apparently the luchador Dick Medrano was born November 10, 1921, and according to any source I can find online, is still alive. Interesting character as well: was friends with Fidel Castro during his time in Mexico, and allegedly taught Che Guevara a few wrestling holds.

 

Posted this two years ago... anyone fancy seeing if he is still alive? Of course death records for Mexico are absolutely fucked so not the easiest thing to look through. There's a (much younger) luchador, Vandal Drummond, saying that he's still alive last year here. When he was mentioned on WrestlingClassics as a shout for the oldest living wrestler earlier this year, nobody argued (and those guys are pedantic as fuck). But are these people just parroting what's available online or is there actual proof Dick Medrano is still with us?

We've got a real name, which is sometimes tough for luchadors (Avelino Palomo Hernandez). A date of birth (November 10, 1921). Married to Maria Antonia Gonzalez, who this website says died in 1987. We even have an actual address for him in the 50s... but no proof he's actually alive.

 

Anyone?

[Gisooo 3,322]

On 15/03/2021 at 23:44, Ulitzer95 said:

19) Jil Jarmyn (IMDb) actress – An obscure film actress of the 50s and 60s. Whoever she is, still signing fan mail in 2017. Living in Santa Paula, California as of 2018.

 

Just received an email from film historian Samuel Clemens

 

American actress Jil Jarmyn (IMDb) died on September 28, 2024, at the age of 97 in Santa Paula, CA, some days shy of her 98th birthday.

 

She was cremated at the Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Ventura County, California.

 

Also updated here, can she get an obituary from The Hollywood Reporter (it's within the deadline)?

 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

16 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

 

Just received an email from film historian Samuel Clemens

 

American actress Jil Jarmyn (IMDb) died on September 28, 2024, at the age of 97 in Santa Paula, CA, some days shy of her 98th birthday.

 

She was cremated at the Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Ventura County, California.

 

Also updated here, can she get an obituary from The Hollywood Reporter (it's within the deadline)?

 

Thanks Gisooo.

The Glamour Girls website seems to be down for me. I also tried it in a private browser. It seems to be down quite a lot.

[Gisooo 3,322]

8 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Thanks Gisooo.

The Glamour Girls website seems to be down for me. I also tried it in a private browser. It seems to be down quite a lot.

 

It was down for me too some hours ago, but now its working, weird? Even the admin of the website has problem. For me and Samuel who added the date on the website, its ok.

 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

I’ll be visiting the GRO Index in person within the next week or so. Their death index goes up to June 2024. 
 

If anyone has any names they’d like me to check, please write them here or DM them to me.

 

Please note that looking at the index in person uses a very old fashioned machine, not a computer, so it’s time consuming. As such, I’d prefer it if ppl only gave me maximum 3 names each.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,194]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

I’ll be visiting the GRO Index in person within the next week or so. Their death index goes up to June 2024. 
 

If anyone has any names they’d like me to check, please write them here or DM them to me.

 

Please note that looking at the index in person uses a very old fashioned machine, not a computer, so it’s time consuming. As such, I’d prefer it if ppl only gave me maximum 3 names each.

 

I've given @Master Obit quite a long list, which will keep him busy, if he wants to partition that list to make his - and your task - easier, then happy to go by that.

 

Otherwise I can wait for the masterful MO.

[Master Obit 830]

1 hour ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

I've given @Master Obit quite a long list, which will keep him busy, if he wants to partition that list to make his - and your task - easier, then happy to go by that.

 

Otherwise I can wait for the masterful MO.

I will do these for Q1 when I am next there, I can't do Q2 though. It seems my local archives hasn't yet got Q2.

[Summer in Transylvania 2,175]

On 14/11/2024 at 16:06, Ulitzer95 said:

I’ll be visiting the GRO Index in person within the next week or so. Their death index goes up to June 2024. 
 

If anyone has any names they’d like me to check, please write them here or DM them to me.

 

Please note that looking at the index in person uses a very old fashioned machine, not a computer, so it’s time consuming. As such, I’d prefer it if ppl only gave me maximum 3 names each.

IMDB says that Star Wars props master Bill Hargreaves died on 19th March 2024, in Bracknell, but I can't find anything to back this up.

[Spade_Cooley 9,518]

13 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

IMDB says that Star Wars props master Bill Hargreaves died on 19th March 2024, in Bracknell, but I can't find anything to back this up.

 

Someone here thanking a hospice for looking after their father Bill Hargreaves who died on March 19. Clicking through to their profile reveals a picture of a man in the 70s holding a Yoda puppet, so I think that's a match.

[Sinbabad 1,116]

17 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

IMDB says that Star Wars props master Bill Hargreaves died on 19th March 2024, in Bracknell, but I can't find anything to back this up.

I found this.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

Also a family obituary for him here.

[whoismakoto 328]

On 13/06/2024 at 09:04, cgay said:

Actress Patricia Michon still alive? 

 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0585250/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_Patricia%20Michon%20

Startiger has declared that she died on 4 October 2021. Can't find the link matching to this info.

[Gisooo 3,322]

On 18/11/2024 at 13:27, whoismakoto said:

Startiger has declared that she died on 4 October 2021. Can't find the link matching to this info.

 

This is her grave, my question is, is this Patricia the actress? Because her IMDb had no full DOB before, now its changed into September 4, 1924, is this accurate? Someone please?

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244828612/patricia_anne-unertl

[Comped 526]

Anyone know if Suzanne Neve is still alive? Hasn't acted in over 40 years, but had involvement in multiple major films, like Scrooge (1970) - of which I believe she's probably one of three cast members who played named characters left (Mary Peach and Karen Scargill are the others it seems, at least according to curious research - I'm not counting the gaggle of children credited as "child" or "urchin", most of whom are still alive), various BBC series in the 60's, and other things as well.

 

Was just wondering if anyone knew - as I'm getting ready to attempt my yearly watch of the film on Thanksgiving. I don't know if she'd QO (though I'd bet on the Guardian personally), but I can't find anything on if she's even alive at all.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

3 minutes ago, Comped said:

Anyone know if Suzanne Neve is still alive? Hasn't acted in over 40 years, but had involvement in multiple major films, like Scrooge (1970) - of which I believe she's probably one of three cast members who played named characters left (Mary Peach and Karen Scargill are the others it seems, at least according to curious research - I'm not counting the gaggle of children credited as "child" or "urchin", most of whom are still alive), various BBC series in the 60's, and other things as well.

 

Was just wondering if anyone knew - as I'm getting ready to attempt my yearly watch of the film on Thanksgiving. I don't know if she'd QO (though I'd bet on the Guardian personally), but I can't find anything on if she's even alive at all.

Yes, still signing autographs as of July 2023 according to her Star Tiger page.

[Comped 526]

18 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Yes, still signing autographs as of July 2023 according to her Star Tiger page.

Thanks! I have to assume next year she may do an interview or two because of the 45th anniversary of Scrooge, so we might know more then.

[whoismakoto 328]

6 hours ago, Gisooo said:

 

This is her grave, my question is, is this Patricia the actress? Because her IMDb had no full DOB before, now its changed into September 4, 1924, is this accurate? Someone please?

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244828612/patricia_anne-unertl

I think this is who Ulitzer95 was referring to

 

On 16/03/2021 at 06:44, Ulitzer95 said:

12) Patricia Michon (IMDb) actress – American. Last role was in 1983. Appears to be alive as somebody in the autograph community suggested a 2018 address for her (now living as Patricia Unertl) in Wisconsin. Birth Index gives a DOB of Sep 4, 1924 in Los Angeles, California as Patricia J. Conzelman. The Patricia Unertl in Wisconsin exists according to the records. Problem is she's 89, not 96 so doesn't match. Who knows.

 

 

 

[drol 11,944]

Is Argentine footballer Roberto Aballay (wiki) actually still alive?

[Gisooo 3,322]

10 minutes ago, drol said:

Is Argentine footballer Roberto Aballay (wiki) actually still alive?

 

100% dead

 

According to this died around 1982 in Columbia, at the age of 60.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

On 20/11/2024 at 16:40, Gisooo said:

 

This is her grave, my question is, is this Patricia the actress? Because her IMDb had no full DOB before, now its changed into September 4, 1924, is this accurate? Someone please?

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244828612/patricia_anne-unertl

I think the 1932 DOB for Patricia Michon is more likely. In 1951–52, she had her first movie roles and she would have been 19/20. That would coincide with a career just starting off after leaving school.

1924 is less believable. She would have been 26/27 in her earliest roles (e.g. "fiery señorita", "saloon girl"). Not impossible but less likely.

This COULD be her grave, but I would advise caution. There are a lot of people on StarTiger who put 2+2 together and get 5. The biggest problem is IMDb lists 3 alternative names for her in its trivia section. Nobody has established a birth name, birth date, or her marriages. If someone has more time, Newspapers.com may hold some answers. I'm not deep diving into this for now though – too busy!