The RIP Famous Person Thread

[steve down under]

Gooood Nighhhht Vietnaaaaam

R I P one of the most talented actor/comedian I have ever had the privelige to watch .

[FloridaBorn]

Some people have no class.. I see you fall well into that category.. Even IF you don't like someone you respect their life, family, friends and achievements by saying naught in a time of grief like this. At least that's what a person with class does.

There seems to be a lot of world wide accolades for his career and his character. Sometimes people just hit the bottom and can't see a way out in a moment of extreme despair and others just can't understand how that can happen if it's never happened to them, especially a successful person like he was but until it's happened to you, you'd never know and consider yourself lucky if you never have, but from your posts here it seems you're on your way to a similar demise eventually, difference being, no one will care.............. Undoubtedly though you'll get a similar response as you've given him here.

[slackula]

Very sad news about Williams, he was an enormous talent on screen in comedy and serious roles and his stand-up was blistering when he was on top of his game.

On golf:



Fuck no! Eighteen fucking times!

[FloridaBorn]

^^ Some classless posts have been deleted thankfully, so my post above and a few others have been left dangling in the wind, they were directed at that poster and thus now look lost in the mix, so please don't get confused or offended thinking they are disrespectful to Robins memory, but I'm glad my posts in response still stand.

[toslti]

News coming in that Lauren Bacall has died.

BBC News - US actress Lauren Bacall 'dies at 89'

[Humbert]

RIP Lauren Bacall. Loved her sultry, Eastern, aristocratic accent.

[misskit]

She was so lovely.

I saw her in person one time, was in the audience, when she was acting in the movie Health.

[Davis Knowlton]

I love old movies, and she was always one of my favorites. I think in the past few months, I've seen her in three or four movies. RIP and thanks for the memories!

[FloridaBorn]

The sultry and sexy actress was electric in the 1940s films “To Have and Have Not” and “Key Largo” opposite her husband, Humphrey Bogart

By Mike Barnes and Duane Byrge

Lauren Bacall, the willowy actress whose husky voice, sultry beauty and all-too-short May-December romance with Humphrey Bogart made her an everlasting icon of Hollywood, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 89.

Bacall died Tuesday morning of a stroke in her longtime home in the Dakota, the famous Upper West Side building that overlooks Central Park in Manhattan.



https://www.yahoo.com/movies/lauren-...579236487.html

[slackula]

I love old movies, and she was always one of my favorites.

Agreed, she was sexier walking across a floor fully clothed delivering a line than most of today's actresses are completely naked in bed in flagrante.


Even Bugs Bunny knew it:




Still, 89 is a good run.

[Davis Knowlton]

Agreed, she was sexier walking across a floor fully clothed delivering a line than most of today's actresses are completely naked in bed in flagrante.

Well said, and spot on.

[harrybarracuda]

That's two....

[Mr Lick]

The girl was simply gushing style. Damn she was Lickable. R.I.P. m'am

[harrybarracuda]

The girl was simply gushing style. Damn she was Lickable. R.I.P. m'am

Calm down man. Go and take a cold shower.

[CaptainQueeg]

The sultry and sexy actress was electric in the 1940s films “To Have and Have Not” and “Key Largo” opposite her husband, Humphrey Bogart

By Mike Barnes and Duane Byrge

Lauren Bacall, the willowy actress whose husky voice, sultry beauty and all-too-short May-December romance with Humphrey Bogart made her an everlasting icon of Hollywood, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 89.

Bacall died Tuesday morning of a stroke in her longtime home in the Dakota, the famous Upper West Side building that overlooks Central Park in Manhattan.



https://www.yahoo.com/movies/lauren-...579236487.html

Whistler's mother.
And, that is why they gave her that line about you know,
How to whistle.

[Mr Lick]

[reddog]

lauren bacall did have style, only saw key largo again about 2 weeks ago,great cast,
those dirty rat gangsters did not have a chance against her and bogart, R I P.

[harrybarracuda]

Big friends with Niven, he wrote very fondly of them in his autobiographies.

[harrybarracuda]

And there's your third actor.

Los Angeles Times staff reports
7:07 p.m. EDT, August 12, 2014

Ed Nelson, a television, stage and film actor who was one of the mainstays of the 1960s prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place," died Saturday at his home in Greensboro, N.C. He was 85.

He had been in declining health with various ailments, said a daughter-in-law, Asta Hansen.

On "Peyton Place," the night-time TV drama revolving around the romantic relationships in a small New England town, Nelson played Michael Rossi during the series' entire 1964-1969 run on ABC. At the beginning, actress Dorothy Malone received top billing; Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal were propelled to stardom by their appearances on the steamy serial. By the last season, Nelson's doctor character was mixed up in a murder trial.

In 1985 Nelson rejoined several members of the 1960s-era cast for a reunion TV movie, "Peyton Place: The Next Generation."

Nelson made dozens of television appearances, often as a guest star on such series as "Murder, She Wrote," "Rawhide," "Gunsmoke" and "Wagon Train." He hosted "The Ed Nelson Show," a syndicated daytime talk show, in 1969 and was a regular on the short-lived 1970-71 crime drama "Silent Force." He also played Sen. Mark Denning in the CBS daytime soap "Capitol" in the 1980s.

On film, Nelson had small parts in "Police Academy 3," "Midway," "Airport 1975" and others. In the late 1950s, he acted in a string of Roger Corman B-movies, including "Swamp Women," "Attack of the Crab Monsters," "A Bucket of Blood" and "Teenage Caveman."

Later in his career, Nelson portrayed President Truman in a national touring production of the one-man show "Give 'em Hell, Harry."

Born Edwin Stafford Nelson in New Orleans on Dec. 21, 1928, he grew up in several places in the South. While still in high school, he joined the Navy and after military service attended Tulane University. There, he began trying his hand at acting. He moved to New York to study acting and soon relocated to California.

During his career, Nelson served on the Screen Actors Guild's Board of Directors.

After largely retiring from acting in the 1990s, Nelson and his wife, Patsy, whom he married in 1951, returned to New Orleans, where they had met. He earned his bachelor's degree in media arts from Tulane in 2000 and taught acting and screenwriting at various colleges. He and his wife left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which struck in 2005.

Nelson, who published his memoir, "Beyond Peyton Place," in 2008, is survived by his wife, six children, 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

[Mr Lick]

[wasabi]

They are are dying ten to the dozen now, does that mean I am getting older, I recognise who these folks are, but My Son does not.

[Mathos]

Lauren and Robbie.

Two good entertainers.

Thanks to both of you, for some good memories.

RIP

[FloridaBorn]

They are are dying ten to the dozen now, does that mean I am getting older, I recognise who these folks are, but My Son does not.

Yes.... And not just you...

[Mr Lick]

James Alexander Gordon: Voice of football results dies, aged 78


James Alexander Gordon, one of the most recognisable voices in British broadcasting, has died aged 78.

Gordon read the classified football results on BBC radio for 40 years before stepping down in 2013.

He retired following throat surgery after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker tweeted: "A voice we all know, the voice of the football results, James Alexander Gordon has died. Tottenham Hotspur 1.. Newcastle United 1.. #RIP"



Gordon was a BBC Radio 2 staff announcer when he began reading the football results in 1973</SPAN abp="441">

Nicknamed 'Jag' because of his initials, Gordon attracted an army of followers with his distinctive Scottish accent and unique style - which involved altering his tone of voice to indicate whether a result was a home or away win, or a draw.

“Five Live and the football results have lost a friend today... He was something special”

Jimmy Armfield


Richard Burgess, head of BBC Radio Sport, said: "James was an iconic radio voice, who turned the classified football results on BBC radio into a national institution.

"He was also a true gentleman, who was loved and admired by his colleagues.

"He took enormous pride in his work and I know he was greatly touched by all the tributes he received upon his retirement last year."

Former England captain Jimmy Armfield, a BBC Radio 5 live colleague of Gordon, was among the many football personalities to pay tribute.

"Five Live and the football results have lost a friend today," Armfield told BBC Radio 5 live. "I can remember before I joined and he came to the BBC that the style was more regimented. He put a different slant on to it. He went up with the voice and down with the voice.

"He seemed to pitch it just right. He did it all with perfect enunciation. That lovely voice, with the little trace of Scots in it, with the highs and lows. He knew when to lift it and put it down.

Play media

From 2007: James Alexander Gordon on reading the football results

"He really was something special. People used to mark the pools coupon with the football results. James knew that. He always gave them time to find out whether it was 1, 2 or an X for the football pools.

"It wasn't the same picture at all when he started out. There was no satellite broadcasting. Matches weren't shown as they are now. Everything came down the line on the radio. He was the first point of contact for who had won. James knew it all. He had it all weighed up. He was the consummate professional."

Mark Pougatch, as a presenter of Radio 5 live's Saturday tea-time show Sports Report, introduced Gordon on many occasions, and tweeted: "It was a honour to say your name on so many Saturdays Jag. Tonight it's Heaven 1 Earth 0."

[taxexile]

Forfar 5, Fife 4.

Gordon's legion of followers included comedian Eric Morecambe - on whose early-career radio show Gordon had been an announcer.

In a 2012 interview, Gordon said that Morecambe always greeted him with a famous tongue-twister scoreline involving Scottish sides East Fife and Forfar - one which never happened, yet became closely associated with the BBC's voice of the classified football results.

"Eric never called me James," Gordon recalled in 2012. "Whenever I saw him over a 20-year period, he would say 'East Fife 4 Forfar 5'. I've got a tape of that."