The RIP Famous Person Thread

[harrybarracuda]

Sean was 007.

Roger was The Saint.

[harrybarracuda]

Nice write up here.

Sir Roger Moore: Remembering the quintessential English actor forever linked with James Bond and The Saint | The Independent

[Humbert]

Moore was possibly the worst Bond. Did not match up with Flemming's description of Bond in any way. Blond, pretty, sport coats? No.

He was good in some roles, notably The Last Time I saw Paris.

[bobo746]

A couple of good shows when i was a kid.

[sabang]

Moore was possibly the worst Bond.

Agreed- but he was the best Saint.

[bobo746]

and this one

[Begbie]

This is good.

[bobo746]

^Brilliant.

[Cujo]

and this one

Doesn't get much more seventies than that.

[harrybarracuda]

Moore was possibly the worst Bond.

No no no.

That was always Lazenby and always will be unless they pick Danny Dyer or someone.

"Fack you Blofed, I'll fuckin' 'ave ya."

[Eliminator]

How many of the Bond guys are still alive?

[Davis Knowlton]

How many of the Bond guys are still alive?

5/6. All but Moore.

[Digby Fantona]

How many of the Bond guys are still alive?

5/6. All but Moore.

More are still alive.

[crackerjack101]

There were /are in fact 8.

A bit of a trick question though. I've never heard of the first one;

James Bond Actors
by adamoconnell created 21 Dec 2012 | last updated - 21 Dec 2012
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Barry Nelson
Actor, The Shining
A genial, well-respected, all-around "nice guy", the breezily handsome Barry Nelson was born Haakon Robert Nielsen on April 16, 1917, in San Francisco, California, to Betsy (Christophersen) and Trygve "Ted" Nielsen, both Norwegian immigrants. He was raised in nearby Oakland and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941...
“ Played "Jimmy Bond," an American agent in 1954's Casino Royale, an hour-long episode of the Climax! TV show. ” - adamoconnell

Image of Sean Connery
2.
Sean Connery
Actor, Dr. No
Sean Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...
“ First played James Bond in 1952's Dr. No, then continued in From Russia, with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. He then retired and did not appear in OHMSS. However, he returned in 1971, being payed 1 million dollars to appear in Diamonds are Forever before stepping down again, publicly stating that he would never again play James Bond.

In 1983, Kevin McClory created a rival Bond film, meaning it was not made by EON. Never Say Never Again was a remake of Thunderball, and saw Connery return to the role for one last cinematic turn as the spy.

Connery returned to lend his voice and likeness in the 2006 video game adaption of From Russia, with Love, in what is so far his last appearance as Bond. ” - adamoconnell

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David Niven
Actor, The Pink Panther
David Niven was named after the Saint's Day on which he was born, St. David, patron Saint of Wales. He attended Stowe School and Sandhurst Military Academy and served for two years in Malta with the Highland Light Infantry. At the outbreak of World War II, although a top-line star, he re-joined the army (Rifle Brigade)...
“ David Niven played Sir James Bond, a retired spy, in the 1967 satire Casino Royale. Part of the film's plot was that Bond took over MI6 after M's death, so in order to confuse his enemies, SMERSH, Bond gave the order that all agents have their names changed to James Bond. However, Niven was the one who portrayed the original character. ” - adamoconnell

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4.
George Lazenby
Actor, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
George Robert Lazenby was born September 5, 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, to Sheila Joan (Bodel) and George Edward Lazenby. He moved to London, England in 1964, after serving in the Australian Army. Before becoming an actor, he worked as an auto mechanic, used car salesman, prestige car salesman...
“ Australian actor George Lazenby was the first to play James Bond after Sean Connery stepped down, in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However, during the course of the film's production, Lazenby decided to quit being Bond, making him most well known as the one-time Bond. ” - adamoconnell

Image of Roger Moore
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Roger Moore
Actor, The Man with the Golden Gun
Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down. Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. He first wanted to be an artist...
“ Moore first took on Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die, and then continued into the Man with the Golden Gun, the Spy Who Lover Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View to a Kill. Moore was the longest serving official Bond, appearing in 7 films during his time, while Connery also appeared in 7, 6 were made by EON while the last was the unofficial NSNA. Notably, Moore and Connery actually fought a "Battle of the Bonds" as Never Say Never Again was released in 1983, two months after Octopussy. ” - adamoconnell

Image of Timothy Dalton
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Timothy Dalton
Actor, The Living Daylights
At a consistently lean 6' 2", green-eyed Timothy Dalton may very well be one of the last of the dying breed of swashbuckling, classically trained Shakespearean actors who have forged simultaneous successful careers in theater, television and film. He has been comparison-shopped roundly for stepping into roles played by other actors...
“ Tim Dalton reportedly wanted to keep Bond as close to Ian Fleming's original creation as possible, leading to two much darker Bond films than fans were used to, the Living Daylights in 1987 and License to Kill in 1991. Legal troubles delayed Dalton's third film until he was forced to resign from the role to pursue other roles. ” - adamoconnell

Image of Pierce Brosnan
7.
Pierce Brosnan
Actor, GoldenEye
Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May (Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although reunited later in life...
“ Pierce Brosnan was the first choice to appear as Bond after Roger Moore retired. Like Moore in the Saint, Brosnan had become well known for a Bond-like TV series, Remmington Steele. However, the producers of that show would not release Brosnan from his contract, and so the role was given to Dalton. Steele was cancelled shortly thereafter, and was free to take over when Dalton left the part.

Brosnan revitalized the series after the box office dissapoint of License to Kill with Goldeneye in 1995. This was followed in 1997 with Tomorrow Never Dies, 1999's the World is Not Enough and finishing up with Die Another Day from 2002. Brosnan remained as Bond until 2006, lending his likeness and even voice to several original video games after his run on the films ended. ” - adamoconnell

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Daniel Craig
Actor, Skyfall
Daniel Craig is an English actor. Craig trained at the National Youth Theatre and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, before beginning his career on stage. His film debut was in the drama The Power of One. Other early appearances were in the Disney family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the biographical film Elizabeth...
“ Die Another Day was badly received by fans and critics alike and nearly killed the franchise. It was decided by EON that it was time to reboot the series, with a new timeline and a new actor playing Bond.

Blond haired Daniel Craig was an unpopular choice to play Bond, but after the release of 2006's Casino Royale, blew everybody away and became the new face of Bond, continuing in the direct follow-up to CR, Quantum of Solace in 2008, and then with Skyfall in 2012. He has signed on to appear in atleast two more Bond films.

Like Brosnan, Craig remains as Bond in the video game world. Brosnan's 1995 debut resulted in one of the most successful video games of all time, 007 Goldeneye for the N64, and it was remade in 2010 starring Craig as Bond. Bond also appeared in the original story video game Blood Stone in 2011, and in 2012, lent his likeness for 007 Legends, which adapts a movie from each previous Bond actor and replaces them with Craig's image. The films were Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's secret Service, Moonraker, License to Kill and Die Another day from Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan respectively. ” - adamoconnell


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[harrybarracuda]

Jared Martin, Who Played Rodeo Cowboy Dusty Farlow on 'Dallas,' Dies at 75
7:38 PM PDT 5/25/2017 by Mike Barnes



Jared Martin, the Dallas actor who portrayed Dusty Farlow, the rodeo cowboy and Sue Ellen Ewing seducer who perished in a plane crash, only to have producers resurrect his character by popular demand, has died. He was 75.

Martin died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Philadelphia, his son, Christian Martin, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Martin roomed with Brian De Palma when they both attended Columbia University in New York and appeared in the first and third features of the director's career: Murder a la Mod (1968) and The Wedding Party (1969).

In De Palma's inaugural effort, Martin played "a mad photographer-murderer who liked to lick the blood off his victims' bodies," he recalled in a 1981 interview with People magazine. "Brian used Hershey syrup for blood and paid me $35."

Martin's career also included starring roles on two sci-fi TV series: 1977's The Fantastic Journey at NBC and a 1988-90 adaptation of War of the Worlds, which aired in syndication.

In 1979, the handsome actor signed a contract to appear as the cowpoke Steven "Dusty" Farlow — the adoptive son of Clayton Farrow (Howard Keel) — on three episodes of the third season of the smash CBS primetime soap Dallas.

"They brought Dusty Farlow on to make goo-goo eyes at Sue Ellen [Linda Gray], become moderately involved with her, tempt her and then she basically remembered who she was and went back to J.R. [Larry Hagman]," Martin said a few years ago in an interview for a Dallas fan site.

Dusty (fans nicknamed him "Lusty Dusty") was incinerated in a plane crash, but after J.R. was shot by an unseen assailant in that season's finale, viewer polls and Las Vegas oddsmakers made the character a favorite to be the answer to the burning question, "Who shot J.R.?"

So producers found a way to have him return.

"My agent said, 'Get ready, they are going to bring you back,'" Martin remembered. "I said, 'How? I'm dead.' My agent says, "Oh, this is Hollywood, they will think of something.'"

It turns out Dusty had survived, but his injuries rendered him impotent, paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.

"He was being nursed back to health by an extremely beautiful woman. That was something America kind of wanted to see at the time; don't ask me why, but they did," Martin said. "So I came from being very much of an episodic television actor to being part of the most successful and fabulous series ever to have been known to humankind."

Dusty would make a miraculous recovery and even return to the rodeo circuit.

Born in Manhattan on Dec. 21, 1941, Jared Christopher Martin was the son of famed New Yorker artist and illustrator Charles E. Martin. He attended The Putney School in Vermont and Columbia, then followed De Palma to Hollywood.

The blue-eyed Martin also appeared in such movies as Westworld (1973), The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974) and Pia Zadora's The Lonely Lady (1983) and on TV's The Partridge Family, Dan August, Night Gallery, The Rookies, The Waltons, How the West Was Won, The Incredible Hulk, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Love Boat, Hunter and L.A. Law.

After retiring from acting, Martin co–founded and served as creative director of the Big Picture Alliance, a nonprofit group that introduces inner-city kids to the art of filmmaking, and worked as a professional painter and photographer.

And just last year, Martin co-directed the feature film The Congressman, starring Treat Williams.

His son Christian is general manager for video at SiriusXM, and his wife is Liz Cole, an executive producer at Dateline NBC.

Martin's survivors also include his wife, Yu Wei, whom he married in 2000, and grandchildren Charlie and Emilia.

Jared Martin Dead: Dusty Farlow on 'Dallas' Was 75 | Hollywood Reporter

[Crestofawave]

What a great book that was by Robert Pirsig- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- the clash between the romantic and the rationalist.

[harrybarracuda]

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, dies aged 89



Zbigniew Brzezinski, who helped topple economic barriers between the Soviet Union, China and the West as President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, died Friday. He was 89.

His death was announced on social media Friday night by his daughter, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski. She called him "the most inspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could ever have."

Earnest and ambitious, Brzezinski helped Carter bridge wide gaps between the rigid Egyptian and Israeli leaders, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, leading to the Camp David accords in September 1978. Three months later, U.S.-China relations were normalized, a top priority for Brzezinski.

Born in Warsaw and educated in Canada and the United States, Brzezinski was an acknowledged expert in Communism when he attracted the attention of U.S. policymakers. In the 1960s he was an adviser to John F. Kennedy and served in the Johnson administration.

In December 1976, Carter offered Brzezinski the position of national security adviser. He had not wanted to be secretary of state because he felt he could be more effective working at Carter's side in the White House.

Brzezinski often found himself in clashes with colleagues like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. For the White House, the differences between Vance and Brzezinski became a major headache, confusing the American public about the administration's policy course and fueling a decline in confidence that Carter could keep his foreign policy team working in tandem.

The Iranian hostage crisis, which began in 1979, came to dramatize America's waning global power and influence and to symbolize the failures and frustrations of the Carter administration. Brzezinski, during the early months of 1980, became convinced that negotiations to free the kidnapped Americans were going nowhere. Supported by the Pentagon, he began to push for military action.

Carter was desperate to end the standoff and, over Vance's objections, agreed to a long-shot plan to rescue the hostages. The mission, dubbed Desert One, was a complete military and political humiliation and precipitated Vance's resignation. Carter lost his re-election bid against Ronald Reagan that November.

Brzezinski went on to ruffle the feathers of Washington's power elite with his 1983 book, "Power and Principle," which was hailed and reviled as a kiss-and-tell memoir.

"I have never believed in flattery or lying as a way of making it," he told The Washington Post that year. "I have made it on my own terms."

The oldest son of Polish diplomat Tadeus Brzezinski, Zbigniew was born on March 28, 1928, and attended Catholic schools during the time his father was posted in France and Germany.

The family went to Montreal in 1938 when the elder Brzezinski was appointed Polish consul general. When Communists took power in Poland six years later, he retired and moved his family to a farm in the Canadian countryside.

At his new home, the young Brzezinski began learning Russian from a nearby farmer and was soon bitten by the foreign policy bug.

Brzezinski's climb to the top of the foreign policy community began at Canada's McGill University, where he earned degrees in economics and political science. Later at Harvard, he received a doctorate in government, a fellowship and a publishing contract - for his thesis on Soviet purges as a permanent feature of totalitarianism.

Frequent trips to Eastern Europe and several books and articles in the 1950s established Brzezinski as an expert on Communism, and by the 1960s he'd begun to attract the interest of policymakers. Throughout his career, he would be affiliated with moderate-to-liberal groups, including the Rand Corp., the Council on Foreign Relations, Amnesty International and the NAACP.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, dies aged 89

[Crestofawave]

[misskit]

That's a bit of a shocker!


The Allman Brothers Band co-founder died at age 69 over the Memoral Day weekend

Gregg Allman, the legendary singer-songrwriter and co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band, passed away "peacefully" at his home in Savannah, Georgia over the weekend. He was 69.

"Gregg struggled with many health issues over the past several years," read a statement on Allman's official website Saturday. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1999 and underwent a liver transplant in 2010. "During that time, Gregg considered being on the road playing music with his brothers and solo band for his beloved fans, essential medicine for his soul. Playing music lifted him up and kept him going during the toughest of times."

The soulful singer-songwriter and rock 'n' blues pioneer composed such classics as "Midnight Rider," "Melissa" and the epic concert jam "Whipping Post." He fronted his band for 45 years, first alongside brother and co-founder Duane until he was killed in a motorcycle accident November 1971.

"It is with deep sadness we announce that Gregg Allman, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, passed away peacefully at his home," read a tweet from the official Allman Brothers Band Twitter account.

The music world was quick to react with grief upon hearing the news. Allman's third and ex-wife Cher shared a photo of the pair with the caption "never forget....gui." Earlier she tweeted, "I've tried, words are impossible." The pair were married from 1975 to 1979 and have a son, Elijah, together.

Gregg Allman Dead: Music World Reacts | Hollywood Reporter

[Humbert]

Rip Gregg Allman. An iconic rock voice.

[Little Chuchok]

Moore was possibly the worst Bond. Did not match up with Flemming's description of Bond in any way. Blond, pretty, sport coats? No.

He was good in some roles, notably The Last Time I saw Paris.

He WAS 007 to me.

First bond movies that I ever saw were with RM as Bond.

[harrybarracuda]

Sad news indeed. And I was in such a good mood.

[cyrille]

Roger moore was the best James bond

Nonshense.

[harrybarracuda]

Well I never knew Greg Allman was married to Cher. You live and learn.

[misskit]

^ I remember that.

We missed Butch Truck's death by suicide back in January of this year.