RIPs

[rogue69]

Pete Garner the original bassist in The Stone Roses aged 61

[rogue69]

Actor Tim Woodward (son of Edward Woodward) aged 70

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Woodward

[sheridan]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

[Jim_Campbell]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

Best-remembered for his spunky backpack, of course.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

Best-remembered for his spunky backpack, of course.

I have to admit that was where I heard his name first.  Felt a bit bad at the time that they were making a fool of a nice guy like Rolf Harris, but... well, use your cheesebox.

11 posts to go before 10000.  (These reminders are for me, not you.)

[The Legendary Shark]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

Best-remembered for his spunky backpack, of course.

I have to admit that was where I heard his name first.  Felt a bit bad at the time that they were making a fool of a nice guy like Rolf Harris, but... well, use your cheesebox.
11 posts to go before 10000.  (These reminders are for me, not you.)

Classic symptom of an under-stimulated Shatner's Bassoon. I'd recommend asking your pharmacist for some Triple Sod Yellow Bentines, washed down with half a glass of noncewater -  that should make you go really blutey. Just make sure you don't end up on a quackhandle.

[Jade Falcon]

I remember him having a small but memorable part in The Hunt for Red October as the Soviet Ambassador who had to bullshit the US defence secretary played by Richard Jordan as to the reason why most of the Soviet surface fleet was in panic mode.

Then he played a Soviet marshal in a blink and you miss it moment in K-19 the Widowmaker.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

Best-remembered for his spunky backpack, of course.

I have to admit that was where I heard his name first.  Felt a bit bad at the time that they were making a fool of a nice guy like Rolf Harris, but... well, use your cheesebox.
11 posts to go before 10000.  (These reminders are for me, not you.)

Classic symptom of an under-stimulated Shatner's Bassoon. I'd recommend asking your pharmacist for some Triple Sod Yellow Bentines, washed down with half a glass of noncewater -  that should make you go really blutey. Just make sure you don't end up on a quackhandle.

I seem to remember Tharg himself borrowing 'mad as a lorry' from the Frankie Fraser interview.

[Link Prime]

Joss Ackland, 95, actor.

Two indelible 80's Ackland performances for me:

1) The mad oul lad in the video for Pet Shop Boys classic 'Always on my Mind'.
2) "Top 10 shocking on-screen deaths" entrant in marvelous Tales of the Unexpected episode 'The Stinker'.

RIP, Sir.

[M.I.K.]

2) "Top 10 shocking on-screen deaths" entrant in marvelous Tales of the Unexpected episode 'The Stinker'.

Which, in a totally inappropriate bit of scheduling, was on telly yesterday at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

[sheridan]

Annabel Giles, 64, presenter, model, actor

[Jim_Campbell]

Mars Williams, rock and jazz saxophonist possibly best known (to me, at least) for his long-time membership of The Psychedelic Furs (with whom I saw him play in 2019, at the very last gig I went to pre-Covid).

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Terry Venables dies: Former England manager passes away aged 80
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67536465

[rogue69]

Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker aged 64
https://www.nme.com/news/music/killing-joke-guitarist-geordie-walker-has-died-aged-64-3549275

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Spanish dancer and illusionist, "Sticky Vicky", (aka Vicky Leyton / Victoria María Aragüés Gadea), has sadly died today, at the young age of 80.

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/sticky-vicky-has-died-aged-80-414377