The RIP Famous Person Thread

[peaches]

It's a British Empire thing. You are excused


Who ?

Nice to have an intergalactic poster on here……. What planet are you from ?

[Iceman123]

^
Yep, I could not believe that he had not heard of Ruth Badger Ginsberg

[helge]

Ruth Badger Ginsberg

Hehe

[helge]

The big fella died

Nadungamuwa Vijaya Raja (Sinhala:නැදුන්ගමුව විජය රාජා) popularly known as Nadungamuwa Raja was an Indian tusker.^[1] He was the main casket bearer of the procession of Esala held in Kandy, Sri Lanka for more than a decade.^[2] One of the most celebrated elephants in Asia during his lifetime, Nadungamuwa Raja is the tallest tamed tusker in Asia.

[harrybarracuda]

Poor thing, looks like he died along with the scandihooligan wanker's last functioning brain cell.

[dirk diggler]

Bit like saying you’ve never heard of Babe Ruth….. just say’n

Of course, everyone's seen Field of Dreams, also featuring Shoeless Joe Jackson.

I can honestly say that I could not name one single more baseball player in history or at present time.

[david44]

I think 2 best obits I've read

The Irishman that described one of the architect sof Apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd

"He was a rotten bastard and may God rot his soul"

and for the afternoon nappy POTUS

When Dorothy Parker heard that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she remarked cruelly, “How can they tell?”

[misskit]

Thai movie idol Sorapong Chatree dies of lung cancer aged 71



Well-known Thai actor Sorapong Chatree, who had starred in more than 500 movies and TV shows in an acting career which lasted about five decades, died this afternoon (Thursday) of lung cancer at Bumrungrad Hospital. He was 71.


On February 16th, his fans sent good wishes and morale support after they learned, from his daughter, that he was suffering from cancer and that his condition, at the time, was improving.


Former actor, Aekkapant Banluerith, said he visited Sorapong last year and found him looking healthy and strong.


Tweets of condolence for the beloved actor’s family, from fans, members of the public and those in the entertainment business, have flooded social media.


Born in Ayutthaya province, Sorapong entered the movie industry at the age of 19, after he met with Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, a film producer and director.


Sorapong won several awards and was named a national artist in performing arts in 2008.


Thai movie idol Sorapong Chatree dies of lung cancer aged 71 | Thai PBS World : The latest Thai news in English, News Headlines, World News and News Broadcasts in both Thai and English. We bring Thailand to the world

[beachbound]

William Hurt, Oscar-winning actor dies at 71.

William Hurt, who often played a quiet intellectual in his early acting roles, but later took more strident turns in science fiction and Marvel films, has died just a week before his 72nd birthday.
William Hurt’s son, Will, posted today that his father has died. It was announced in May 2018 that the elder Hurt had terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone.

[harrybarracuda]

William Hurt, Oscar-winning actor dies at 71.

William Hurt, who often played a quiet intellectual in his early acting roles, but later took more strident turns in science fiction and Marvel films, has died just a week before his 72nd birthday.
William Hurt’s son, Will, posted today that his father has died. It was announced in May 2018 that the elder Hurt had terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone.

That is a shame. He was fine actor.

[harrybarracuda]

Oscar-winning actor William Hurt, star of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Body Heat, has died aged 71.
Deadline reported an announcement by Hurt’s son Will: “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his 72nd birthday. He died peacefully, among family, of natural causes.” Variety said that a family friend confirmed the news.

Hurt won the best actor Oscar in 1986 for Kiss of the Spider Woman, in which he had played a gay man who shares a cell with a with a political prisoner in Brazil. He received further Oscar nominations for best actor for Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News, and for best supporting actor for A History of Violence.

Born in 1950, Hurt studied theology at university but turned to acting and enrolled at the Juilliard school in 1972. After a series of stage roles, he won his first major film role in the Ken Russell body horror film Altered States, which was swiftly followed by the then-sensational erotic thriller Body Heat, in which he starred opposite Kathleen Turner. Body Heat’s notoriety made his name, and Hurt became a major star of the 1980s. He featured in a prominent role in the ensemble comedy drama The Big Chill, and the spy thriller Gorky Park, and was then cast in Kiss of the Spider Woman by director Héctor Babenco.

Hurt would make a sensational success of the role, in which he played the drag-queen cellmate of Raul Julia’s leftist revolutionary, winning the best actor award at Cannes as well as the best actor Oscar. The following year, he played a teacher in Children of a Lesser God, opposite Marlee Matlin (later his partner) who would go on to be the first deaf winner of an acting Oscar. In 1988 he made it three Oscar nominations in a row, for his role as a TV reporter in Broadcast News.

In the 1990s, successful roles appeared elusive; among others, mostly with an arthouse bent, he was in Wim Wenders’ mammoth but disappointing Until the End of the World, Chantal Akerman’s A Couch in New York, and the Carl Franklin-directed One True Thing. In 2005 he had an unexpected success with an atypical role, crime boss Richie Cusack in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, which garnered him another Oscar nomination, for best supporting actor. Three years later, he made possibly an even more unexpected entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, a role he would repeat in Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, and Black Widow.

In 2009, Matlin published a memoir in which she described physical and emotional abuse by Hurt during their relationship. Hurt said later: “I did and do apologise for any pain I caused.”

Hurt was married twice, to Mary Beth Hurt from 1971 to 1982 and Heidi Henderson from 1989 to 1992. He also had high-profile relationships with Matlin, Sandra Jennings and Sandrine Bonnaire.

Oscar-winning actor William Hurt dies aged 71 | William Hurt | The Guardian

[misskit]

That’s a bit of a shock. Rest In Peace, Mr. Hurt.

[beachbound]

That is a shame. He was fine actor.

Indeed he was. I have a vivid memory of watching Altered States on VHS, at the rugby house in college. (early 80s)

Gorky Park, The Big Chill, Body Heat, he didn’t make many bad ones.

[harrybarracuda]

Indeed he was. I have a vivid memory of watching Altered States on VHS, at the rugby house in college. (early 80s)

Gorky Park, The Big Chill, Body Heat, he didn’t make many bad ones.

Even Costner's psychopathic alter ego in Mr. Brooks he made a memorable role.

[harrybarracuda]

One of contemporary music’s most potent social commentary songs was written as the Vietnam War raged and a Miami musician sat transfixed by a TV news broadcast enumerating the mounting dead. The multifaceted composition came just a few years after the slaying of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That Timmy Thomas tune, “Why Can’t We Live Together,” which burns ever more timely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and the global reckoning over racism after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, was born in a Miami music studio nearly 50 years ago. Thomas, the Miami singer-songwriter and keyboardist who composed the landmark “Why Can’t We Live Together?” and released it on a Miami-based TK Records subsidiary label in 1972, died in Miami on March 11. Thomas was 77 and the cause was cancer, according to his wife Lillie Brown Thomas, The New York Times reported.


Read more at: Obit: Timmy Thomas, ‘Why Can’t We Live Together,’ dies in Miami | Miami Herald

[KWAN]

Peter Bowles: a commanding talent who was so much more than a sitcom star | Television | The Guardian
Peter Bowles

[misskit]

Takarada Akira, Early ‘Godzilla’ Film Star, Dies at 87

Takarada Akira, best known as a star in the early “Godzilla” films and Toho’s other kaiju (monster) and sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday. He was 87. The cause of death has not been announced.


Born in 1934 in Japan-occupied Korea, Takarada came with his family to Japan in 1948 as a speaker of Mandarin Chinese and English. In 1953 he entered the Toho studio after passing the studio’s “New Face” audition. He made an impression in a major role as a Navy diver in the original 1954 “Godzilla” and thereafter was cast in series follow-ups including “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964), “Invasion of Astro-Monster” (1965), and “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” (1966).

Takarada also appeared in films by Ozu Yasujiro and Naruse Miko as well as musical films, melodramas, period dramas and other mainstay studio genres.


After the collapse of Japan’s studio system in the 1970s Takarada’s appearances in films became fewer though his career revived in the 1990s with supporting roles in the films of Itami Juzo. He also appeared in new entries in the “Godzilla” series such as the 1992 “Godzilla vs. Mothra” and the 2002 “Godzilla: Final Wars.” He is credited in the 2014 Garth Edwards “Godzilla” as a Japanese immigration agent, though his scenes were cut from the film.


Known in his studio heyday for his leading man good looks and air of sophistication, Takarada in his latter years became a favorite on the Godzilla fan circuit, appearing at conventions and interacting with fans. He also appeared in several stage musicals.


At his last public appearance on March 10, for the Miyake Nobuyuki film “If Cherry Blossoms Disappeared from the World),” in which he plays and end-of-life counsellor, Takarada referred to the war in Ukraine, saying that “Looking at the current situation, I think we have to make more socially conscious films.” The film will be released in Japan on April 1.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+godzilla+1954

[harrybarracuda]

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies



WASHINGTON (AP) — Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 84.
President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America's top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. She had previously been Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations.
At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of U.S. government. She was not in the line of succession for the presidency, however, because she was a native of Czechoslovakia, born in Prague.
"She was surrounded by family and friends," her family announced on Twitter. "We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend." It said the cause was cancer.

First female U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright dies at 84

[helge]

Will be remembered among other things for being brought up as a catholic by her jewish parents, who twice had to settle elsewhere.

I'll mostly remember her for her comment on the 500.000 iraqi kids dying due to the embargo against Iraq:

"It is worth it"

Nice

No tears from me

[DrWilly]

Will be remembered among other things for being brought up as a catholic by her jewish parents, who twice had to settle elsewhere.

I'll mostly remember her for her comment on the 500.000 iraqi kids dying due to the embargo against Iraq:

"It is worth it"

Nice

No tears from me

Link please.

[pickel]

Link please.

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/statu...rfaces-1691193

[DrWilly]

Thanks. Pretty awful audio. What was she thinking?

[malmomike77]

Taylor Hawkins does down in Colombia, Dave Grohl is one unlucky bloke to be around. RIP Taylor.

Taylor Hawkins: Foo Fighters drummer dies aged 50, band announces

Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for rock band Foo Fighters, has died at the age of 50, the band has announced.


“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the band’s official account tweeted.

“His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever.

“Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.”

The Foo Fighters are on tour in South America and had been due to headline Festival Estereo Picnic in Bogotá, Colombia on Friday evening, 25 March. The festival released a statement on Facebook confirming the band had pulled out of the three-day festival due to Hawkins’s death. “With a broken heart, we are here to let you know of very sad news due to a very serious medical situation the Foo Fighters cannot perform tonight and they have cancelled the rest of their South American tour.”

After performing in Colombia, Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at Lollapalooza Brasil in São Paulo on 26 March before continuing to tour in the United States.

Tributes have been flowing for Hawkins, who had drummed for 25 of Foo Fighters’ 28 years of existence after taking over from original drummer William Goldsmith in 1997.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/26/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-drummer-dies-age-50

[hallelujah]

A macabre claim to fame: he died just a few streets down from my old flat.

[harrybarracuda]

A macabre claim to fame: he died just a few streets down from my old flat.

I bet you never took that many drugs at the same time though.