Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Grim Reaper gonna keep reaping.

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Will we have a death pool this year?

I call American democracy

Is that the new Guns N Roses album?

Chris Karrer of both Amon Düüls

https://www.facebook.com/groups/10213321397/posts/10159782465886398/

One for the UK charity sector: Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61

I think her given name was Camila Brucewayneghelidjh

Glynis Johns

Oh, shame, she reached the century though. RIP Glynis.

VOTES FOR WOMEN rip glynis
thx for teaching me abt the suffragette movement <3

Love her in this Amicus/EC anthology bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqO_VtjKRo

Derek Draper, covid-affected husband of Kate Garaway and former Labour Party ghoul.

tbf he possibly still qualifies as a labour party ghoul?

RIP David Soul, aged 80.

xp
don't ghouls feed on the flesh of the dead? I guess if he can manage to eat himself it will save on funeral expenses

Actor Christian Oliver, 51, and his two daughters, 12 and 10, killed in a plane crash in the Caribbean.

I just re-watched the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries, David Soul was great in that... a lot of cool cameos by old-timey hollywood stars; it's still pretty freaky as well

Still has some of the scariest scenes I've ever seen from made-for-TV

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid watching it on a b+w valve television

I can never remember whether he was Starsky or Hutch.

he was Starsky, the smart one.. Hutch was the 'street' one

xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff

James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire

A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car

The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming

I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)

Ahh okay

See?

I felt so sure of myself

You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

— Zarah Bukake MP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dim ond parodi ydy (@XRLlareggub) January 5, 2024

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

I can't think of many other movies that channel Toronto as vividly as that one.

Nick Starmer

Dayle Haddon, Quebecois model-actress-face of various cosmetics companies, 76

Know her from North Dallas Forty and Paperback Hero.

I first noticed her in The French Woman, aka Madame Claude (1977), one of the erotic films director Just Jaeckin made in the wake of his success with Emmanuelle. She had a good look. Being reported as an unfortunate accidental death at home.

Someone should write and record "Dayle Haddon Eyes."

https://i.postimg.cc/VsH3vVkB/eyes.jpg

Jimmy Carter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-dead-longest-lived-us-president

America's greatest ex-president.

I just said that somewhere else a minute ago.

if only he could have seen the eradication of guinea worm

Flippant but kinda glad a certain someone's not president quite yet for the observances and ceremonies.

Will Trump snub his funeral?

Well he wouldn't be the star, so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0

Indeed, he’d have to sit through eulogies which aren’t about him.

Re: Greatest Ex-President

I’d argue for John Quincy Adams because of saving the Smithsonian and being an expert troll:

In late 1836, Adams began a campaign to ridicule slave owners and the gag rule. He frequently attempted to present anti-slavery petitions, often in ways that provoked strong reactions from Southern representatives

JQA is my pick.

damning indictment of USA presidential history when your best ex-prez is an OG nepo-brat!

We're just following the lead of your beloved monarchy. (Citation needed.)

I was six when carter took office. A sense was instilled in me that it was normal to have a democrat president, and that democrats were decent. Then other stuff happened.

But yeah he and various local Minnesota figures were my formative experience of what democrats are supposed to be

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFz0_VNWwAA3nad.png

^^^ Cecil Taylor was one of a slew of jazz artists invited to perform on the White House lawn in the summer of 1978. Audio of the whole show is on YouTube.

R.I.P.

The first president I ever "supported," in the sense that I argued for him in a 6th-grade debate in 1980. Got me used to supporting losing Dems lol.

A mixed bag as a president, an apparently deeply decent person, which puts him in select company as far as presidents go.

Gotta love Cecil turning up at the White House in his pyjamas.

Via his friend/supporter Lyndsey Parker, news that Kieran Turner, who directed the wonderful music documentary Jobriath A.D., has passed on.

Linda Lavin, 87

Jazz bassist Barre Phillips, 90

https://ukjazznews.com/rip-barre-phillips-1934-2024/

RIP Barre. Shall play his great Mountainscapes album in his honour.

Johnnie Walker, BBC radio DJ, dies at the age of 79.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/31/johnnie-walker-bbc-radio-dj-dies-aged-79

Oof. Perfect timing though, a pro to the end.

Easily the best DJ on daytime radio 1 back in the day. His "keep fitx spot was introduced with a snip of the intro to "Kick out the jams"

I never got onto "Pop The Question" but.

"keep fit" obviously

Dax Pierson of Anticon band Subtle and later solo projects

Man that is TERRIBLE news.

RIP

Dax Pierson has passed away…
My best friend, band mate, mentor and Hero.
To meet and have loved a singular human being with such strength and a heart the size of the entire sky, is my life’s honor.
To loose him is unbearable…
I will post more about supporting him in passing… pic.twitter.com/OX1ou63XHG

— doseone (@doseone) December 31, 2024

Lots of people on Facebook reporting the death of prolific Science Fiction etc author Barry N. Malzberg. Can't yet find an obituary online.

https://locusmag.com/2010/10/barry-n-malzberg-a-measure-of-peace/

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 December 2024 11:19 bookmarkflaglink

only just saw this! really loved what i read of his. which it’s fair to say is not *all* of it by any means. Intro for me was Underlay, which is extremely entertaining.

jeet heer appreciation

Lots of people on Facebook reporting the death of prolific Science Fiction etc author Barry N. Malzberg. Can't yet find an obituary online.

https://locusmag.com/2010/10/barry-n-malzberg-a-measure-of-peace/

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 December 2024 11:19 bookmarkflaglink

only just saw this! really loved what i read of his. which it’s fair to say is not *all* of it by any means. Intro for me was Underlay, which is extremely entertaining.

jeet heer appreciation

I'll try a couple.

Russian international footballer, Aleksey Bugaev.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/02/aleksey-bugaev-russian-footballer-death-in-ukraine

Gianni Savio, 76. Italian cycling team manager for 30 years & cult hero

Time for a new thread, surely!

But people from last year are still dying!

Yes, let's wait till someone dies this year.

xp lol

We had to get the Malzberg situation cleared up first.

Boring Bob Grover, singer in the Piranhas and writer of the words to Tom Hark. (Christmas Eve apparently so belongs in 2024 thread)

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/01/01/don-nix-obituary-stax-artist-songwriter-producer/77388086007/

Memphis Music Hall of Famer Don Nix has died. On December 31

A member of the early Stax group The Mar-Keys, Nix went on to a prolific career as a songwriter, producer and arranger. His blues anthem “Going Down” would become a standard of the genre, and Nix produced acclaimed albums for Freddie King, Albert King, Jeff Beck and Furry Lewis, as well as worked with The Beatles' George Harrison on The Concert for Bangladesh.

Also a photographer and longtime unique Memphis guy

Okay, time to finally lock this, we do have a new thread!

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