DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Lean'n'mean]

The death of Kenyan born singer-songwriter, Roger Whittaker has just been announced (he actually died on the 13th) He was 87.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Illya Kuryakin has passed on to the great U.N.C.L.E. Control Room in the sky. Rest in peace.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201...es-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-and-ncis-dies-at-90

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Versatile Irish-English actor, Sir Michael Gambon CBE, has died aged 82.

 

[LizzieMaine]

All New England today is mourning the unexpected death from brain cancer of Red Sox favorite Tim Wakefield at the age of 57. Wake was affiliated with the Sox for nearly thirty years, seventeen of them as an outstanding knuckleball pitcher who just seemed to go on and on, winning those clutch games and doing whatever it took to win two World Series titles, and subsquently as a special assistant, spring training coach, and broadcaster. But it was in his charitable and community work that he really showed the kind of a man he was -- wherever there was something that needed to be done, from visiting a sick child to building a playground, Wake was always there. In a day of swaggering, self-absorbed athlete-millionaires, Wake was a true throwback.

To put it in terms of the Era -- what Freddie Fitzsimmons was to Brooklyn, Tim Wakefield was to New England. He'll be grieved and he'll be missed.

 

[Frunobulax]

Butkus

Daywatch: Dick Butkus remembered as ‘Chicago’s son’

Good morning, Chicago. Perhaps no player in the Chicago Bears’ 104-year history better epitomized the team’s tough and determined identity than Dick Butkus. A product of Chicago’s…

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If Dick couldn't figure out who was carrying the ball, he'd just tackle everybody.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Butkus

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If Dick couldn't figure out who was carrying the ball, he'd just tackle everybody.

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Loved that guy!!
He’d hit you do hard that your relative’s DNA was changed.
If he played today…they’d ban the Bears for using a dangerous weapon.
Him, Jack Tatum and Woody Hayes are terrorizing football in heaven today.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Adventures of Superman's Phyllis Coates, television's first Lois Lane.

R.I.P. Phyllis Coates, TV’s first Lois Lane

Phyllis Coates, who also starred with George Reeves in the first Superman feature film, was 96

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Phyllis Coates, TV’s First Lois Lane, Dies, Aged 96 - Superman Homepage

Phyllis Coates, best known as Lois Lane from the first season of the "Adventures of Superman" TV series, has passed away, aged 96. Phyllis Coates became the second actress to portray the role of Lois Lane Superman's favorite female reporter, on-screen appearing in the movie, Superman and the...

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I always preferred her feisty, competitive take on Lois to her replacement, the sweeter, more matronly Noel Neill. And of the many actresses who've now played Lois Lane, I still always prefer the tougher variants, like Dana Delany in Superman: The Animated Series - I love the acid tone in her dismissive nickname for Clark, "Smallville..."

By all rights, Amy Adams should have been the best Lois ever... But after a promising start (where she figures out that Clark is the mysterious hero even before he's wearing the super suit) those Warners/DC Snyderverse films utterly botched the character, among their many other faults. The brilliant investigative reporter is quickly stuck doing one incredibly stupid thing after another...

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Adventures of Superman's Phyllis Coates, television's first Lois Lane.

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R.I.P. Phyllis Coates, TV’s first Lois Lane

Phyllis Coates, who also starred with George Reeves in the first Superman feature film, was 96

www.avclub.com

Phyllis Coates, TV’s First Lois Lane, Dies, Aged 96 - Superman Homepage

Phyllis Coates, best known as Lois Lane from the first season of the "Adventures of Superman" TV series, has passed away, aged 96. Phyllis Coates became the second actress to portray the role of Lois Lane Superman's favorite female reporter, on-screen appearing in the movie, Superman and the...

www.supermanhomepage.com

I always preferred her feisty, competitive take on Lois to her replacement, the sweeter, more matronly Noel Neill.

Noel Neill I recall had a cameo in the Superman flick as a train passenger when Christopher Reeves flies by.

 

[BobHufford]

Actress Susanne Somers dead at 76 of cancer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...rs-threes-company-dead-76-cancer/71197413007/

 

[Doctor Strange]

Actress Lara Parker, who played the witch Angelique - who'd turned Barnabas Collins into a vampire, and was still tormenting him centuries later - in the original 1960s spook opera Dark Shadows:

R.I.P. Lara Parker, Dark Shadows’ Angelique

The soap star who also went on to write multiple Dark Shadows novels was 84

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I watched the show daily as a teenager, and the beautiful, brilliant, deliciously evil Angelique was important to my sexual development! Alas, she didn't have much of an acting career after Dark Shadows.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., SHAFT !

 

[The one from the North]

R.I.P., SHAFT !

The world is yet again a lot less cool...

 

[Zombie_61]

Just in case any Night Court fans check this thread, Richard Moll (Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon) has died at the age of 80 years. No cause of death has been mentioned, but the statement issued said "Moll died peacefully on October 26 at his home in Big Bear Lake, CA."

 

[The one from the North]

Matthew Perry. Always sad if not surprising when years of abusing oneself caughts you...

 

[Frunobulax]

They come in threes.

Chrissie was the 70s
Bull was the 80s
Chandler was the 90s

 

[Trenchfriend]

They come in threes.

Chrissie was the 70s
Bull was the 80s
Chandler was the 90s

Who are the first two, please?

 

[Frunobulax]

Who are the first two, please?

Suzanne Somers was Chrissie on "Three's Company." Richard Moll, a couple posts up, was Bull on "Night Court."

 

[Zombie_61]

Matthew Perry. Always sad if not surprising when years of abusing oneself caughts you...

I'm certain that's why the L.A. County Coroner's Office is waiting to get ALL of the test results before they officially announce the exact cause of death. Playing Chandler Bing made Matthew Perry quite popular among fans of the show, so there are a lot of eyes on this.

 

[TheOldFashioned]

I really hope Bobby Knight (01 Nov 23) got his final wish:

 

[Doctor Strange]

He's not a familiar name, but TV director Robert Butler directed the great pilot episodes - and set the tone - for many classic shows - Batman, Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, etc.

Robert Butler, Director on Pilots for ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Hill Street Blues,’ Dies at 95

The three-time Emmy winner also did the first episodes of 'Hogan's Heroes,' 'Moonlighting' and 'Remington Steele,' which he co-created.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95

Robert Butler, a television director behind pilots for shows like 'Batman' and 'Star Trek,' died at the age of 95.

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