RIPs

[Concrete Block 15]

BBC's Top Gear. Allegedly.

[Art]

John M. Ford

Link: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html#008033" target="_blank">http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/0080

[Quirkafleeg]

Tetsuro Tamba - Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice

... and Big Boy

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060912/wl_uk_afp/afpentertainmentbritain_060912193352" target="_blank">A Nation Mourns    

[Quirkafleeg]

Iva Toguri aka 'Tokyo Rose'

Link: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/09/tokyo_rose_aka_.html" target="_blank">Her story... not what I expected.

[longmanshort]

Rather bizarre case of 'reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated':

The media reported that the co-writer of the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini had died.

But he hasn't.

Turns out the guy who did die had always told his wife that he had co-written the song but sold the rights away. His widow then told the media, who ran it across the world ...

Paul Van Valkenburgh, of Ormond Beach, Florida, said he claimed to have written the song as Paul Vance.

Rose Leroux said she had had no reason to doubt her late husband's claim to fame and was "devastated".

The real Paul Vance, of Coral Springs, Florida, said the phones "don't stop with people calling thinking I'm dead".

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5387834.stm" target="_blank">What a way to find out your husband's a liar

[longmanshort]

Sorry, that's meant to have read The widow of Paul Van Valkenburgh, of Ormond Beach, Florida, said he claimed to have written the song as Paul Vance.

[Adrian Bamforth]

The world Hokey Cokey champion died last week. It took them 3 hours to get him into the coffin.

(C) Barry Cryer 1981

ADE

[Quirkafleeg]

Tom Bell.

Great character actor - Prime Suspect, Jack The Hat in Yhe Krays etc

[DavidXBrunt]

Surprised and sad.

[Bolt-01]

Really saddened to hear that last night. Tom Bell was one of the first actors names I remember recognising. always gave a good performance.

Bolt-01

[Tiplodocus]

"Tom Bell was one of the first actors names I remember recognising. always gave a good performance. "

Odd that - me too.  
I think it was OUT that I first saw/remebered him from.
"Tom Bell is OUT!" - that was your catchphrase.
Now you are out of this world.

E J Thribb.

[House of Usher]

I had to look up Tom Bell on IMDB to see if he was who I thought he was. I had to back as far as The Magic Toyshop (1987) for confirmation, as I'm not really familiar with his work since.

I appreciated the E.J. Thribb "in memoriam" tribute. No idea what OUT is though.

[Quirkafleeg]

He was great at playing a really nasty character... so much so I was practically cheering on Kemp to stab him up in The Krays ('I'm not facking bald!')

[Grant Goggans]

I remember having my fingers crossed, hoping that they might cast Tom Bell as the Master for the Doctor Who TV movie in 1996.  Oh, well...

[Byron Virgo]

He was good in The L-Shaped Room as well, and if memory serves he played a Nazi in one of those Young Indiana Jones programmes written by Frank Darabont.

It's funny, but I only saw him recently and thought to myself how ill he looked at the time.

A canny little actor, Tom Bell.