The Vicar Of Dibley

[RoverAndOut 4,745]

My first topic!

 

Was watching this the other day and I'm slightly surprised this hasn't already got a thread as it's 20 years old now and the cast weren't exactly spring chickens when it started. Despite this, of the main cast we've impressively only lost Roger Lloyd-Pack, but most of the rest are primed to go in the next few years. Anyway, I had a search and turned very little up but if someone knows something I don't then feel free to move this.

 

In order of age (or death) the main cast is as follows:

 

Roger Lloyd-Pack (Owen Newitt) - b. February 1944, d. January 2014

Liz Smith (Letitia Cropley) - b. December 1921, d. December 2016

John Bluthal (Frank Pickle) - b. March 1929, d. November 2018

Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) - b. May 1931, d. March 2021

Gary Waldhorn (David Horton) - b. July 1943 (aged 77)

James Fleet (Hugo Horton) - b. March 1954 (aged 68)

Dawn French (Geraldine Granger) - b. October 1957 (aged 62)

Emma Chambers (Alice Horton nee Tinker) - March 1964, d. February 2018

 

John Bluthal randomly turned up in the latest Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar! last month, seemed in fine fettle there, but otherwise I have very little recent information about any of them. James Fleet was in Mr Turner last year playing Constable but it was a small part. Nice range of ages, should keep us interested for a fair while yet and the first three will surely go within the decade.

 

Thoughts?

 

EDIT: Updated March 2021

[Sean 6,309]

The three eldest seem the most likely to go soon due to age.Liz Smith as we all know has not been well these past few years.Dawn French`s weight may cut her life short also.She keeps losing weight then putting it back on so who knows!

[wengeruk 28]

Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) has had Alzheimer's since 2013.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4502626/Will-dementia-defeat-Dibley-s-Jim-Trott.html

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

3 minutes ago, wengeruk said:

Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) has had Alzheimer's since 2013.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4502626/Will-dementia-defeat-Dibley-s-Jim-Trott.html

 

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he loves the Pharrell Williams song Happy. 

 

Fucking hell, he really is gone.

[Dead Wait 1,129]

3 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

 

Fucking hell, he really is gone.

No no no no no no

[Sean 6,309]

It says he was diagnosed with Vascular dementia as well in 2009 and that he has worsened in the last year.Is 86 on Friday.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

1 hour ago, wengeruk said:

Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) has had Alzheimer's since 2013.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4502626/Will-dementia-defeat-Dibley-s-Jim-Trott.html

I loved him in Columbo.

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

5 minutes ago, Lard Bazaar said:

I loved him in Columbo.

I hear the guy who played Colombo has Alzheimer's.

[wengeruk 28]

Having to play an entire capital city will do that to you.

[YoungWillz 21,023]

For completeness:

 

[RoverAndOut 4,745]

On 01/04/2016 at 04:01, RoverAndOut said:

 

Roger Lloyd-Pack (Owen Newitt) - b. February 1944, d. January 2014

Liz Smith (Letitia Cropley) - b. December 1921, d. December 2016

John Bluthal (Frank Pickle) - b. March 1929 (aged 88)

Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) - b. May 1931 (aged 86)

Gary Waldhorn (David Horton) - b. July 1943 (aged 74)

James Fleet (Hugo Horton) - b. March 1954 (aged 63)

Dawn French (Geraldine Granger) - b. October 1957 (aged 60)

Emma Chambers (Alice Horton nee Tinker) - b. March 1964, d. February 2018

Updated. Seems to be one every two years goes. Expecting Bluthal and Peacock to test that theory in the coming years however.

[RobertMugabe 437]

Never heard of this show, was Desmond Tutu in it?

[FixedBusiness 407]

4 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

Updated. Seems to be one every two years goes. Expecting Bluthal and Peacock to test that theory in the coming years however.

I think Peacock will go this year

[Sean 6,309]

I was surprised how old Emma Chambers was and James Fleet is.Maybe it was because their characters were so dopey and naive that they seemed younger than 30 and 40 when the show started.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Not in a million years would I have thought Emma Chambers would be next to go from the show. So sad and tragic. 

[the_engineer 1,415]

Its not inconceivable that less than 10 years from now the cast will all be dead. Dawn French never came across as someone who would live into her 80s but she has radically changed her lifestyle , slimmed down etc and looks quite healthy.

[the_engineer 1,415]

2 hours ago, CoffinLodger said:

Not in a million years would I have thought Emma Chambers would be next to go from the show. So sad and tragic. 

 

I think nearly everyone would of chosen her as who would be the last cast member alive, not who would die next.

[Sean 6,309]

Jon Plowman has said she died from a suspected heart attack

[YoungWillz 21,023]

Not sure how reliable the source is, but it does look fairly cast iron.

 

John Bluthal has reportedly died: https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/11/vale-john-bluthal.html

 

Q with Spike Milligan, Help with The Beatles, Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, etc etc. Not just a Pickle.

 

If this is true, this is sad news. Also a pick for me in the Hares Pool.

[the_engineer 1,415]

I'd say anyone with  5 episodes or more under their belt is the main cast. With John's death that's 4/9 of the main cast dead.The other 5 all being fairly old.

[YoungWillz 21,023]

 

[msc 18,434]

Trevor Peacock dead.

 

Mirror obit.

[Dead Wait 1,129]

4 minutes ago, msc said:

Trevor Peacock dead.

 

Mirror obit.

oh no no no no

[Deathrace 1,164]

Quite shocking that a show that was made relatively recently has two thirds of its main cast dead. That's worse than the main protagonists of Fawlty Towers 3/4 still alive which was 20 years earlier. Not a lot better than Dad's Army now either (2 main actors versus 3 for Dibley). It's the Are You Being Served of the 1990s. 

[TQR 14,384]

24 minutes ago, msc said:

Trevor Peacock dead.

 

Mirror obit.

A sad one, this.