Passages

[Orlac]

Murphy was known to me as a child as he was a regular on the CITV show WIZADORA.

[JSC]

He also had a guest slot on one of the darkest episodes of One Foot in the Grave (and
that's saying something!) In the episode, he continually...

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...tries to commit suicide by jumping off buildings, when he does eventually succeed
he leaves his collection of rare dentures to the main character.

[colinr0380]

Just as importantly he's yet another one of those actors who turns up in 2012's Run For Your Wife as part of the enormously starry supporting cast! (Was there any British comic actor of the time (and Judi Dench, of course) who missed out on appearing in that film?)

[Mr Sausage]

The Aga Khan.

My wife (who was raised Ismaili) once met him randomly in a hotel in Zanzibar. Her mom, who was very devout, had a full on meltdown in his presence as tho' she were a teenage girl meeting a pop idol. My wife guessed this must've happened a lot to him as he was unperturbed by the intense shrieking and crying.

[domino harvey]

Someone I literally only know from a NewsRadio joke

[hearthesilence]

"Peanut butter."

[beamish14]

Dave Jerden, producer and/or engineer for many classic rock albums, including Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual, Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, and Alice in Chains’ Facelift

[hearthesilence]

Tenor and alto saxophonist Gene Barge. He was in college jazz combos in the 1940s, backed Little Richard and James Brown when they were starting out, played a long, sweet solo on Chuck Willis's “C.C. Rider” and co-wrote, arranged and appeared on Gary “U.S.” Bonds's “Quarter to Three” and other ’60s classics like Fontella Bass’s “Rescue Me." He was also a staff musician and producer with Chess Records, recording with such blues greats as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon, co-produced Natalie Cole’s “Sophisticated Lady,” toured with Willis, Guy, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, and the Rolling Stones (see the Stones' CD and DVD Live at Leeds which captured their final show on the Tattoo You tour) and even played on Public Enemy’s New Whirl Odor album, for which he was credited as “the legendary Mr. Gene Barge.” He also tried his hand at acting in films by fellow Chicagoan Andrew Davis, among them The Fugitive and Under Siege.

[Fiery Angel]

Dave Jerden, producer and/or engineer for many classic rock albums, including Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual, Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, and Alice in Chains’ Dirt

Fixed!

[PfR73]

Someone I literally only know from a NewsRadio joke

To me, what comes to mind is Wes Anderson's Hotel Chevalier.

[Professor Wagstaff]

Tony Roberts

[beamish14]

Tony Roberts

It was always such a pleasure to see him on screen. The man had a stroke while performing on a Broadway stage but continued to work

[beamish14]

Novelist Tom Robbins, who was most famous for Another Roadside Attraction and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

[therewillbeblus]

Oh no! Loved him in college, in particular Jitterbug Perfume, which is both his best work and the ideal entry point. I even had a "Beets are deadly serious" T-shirt

[Aunt Peg]

Geneviève Page, actress, aged 97: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 236137297/

Known from lots of French and English language films from the 1950s onwards. Her best known role was probably as the Madame in Belle de Jour (1967).

[Aunt Peg]

Cacá Diegues, film director, 84: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...nema-118821321

I think he best known film internationally is probably the classic 1980 film Bye Bye Brazil. Now there's a film that needs rediscovery by one of the boutique labels.

[hearthesilence]

Geneviève Page, actress, aged 97: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 236137297/

Known from lots of French and English language films from the 1950s onwards. Her best known role was probably as the Madame in Belle de Jour (1967).

Also excellent in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

[MichaelB]

Princess Niké Arrighi Borghese, who before she obtained those bookending names by marrying Prince Paolo Borghese in 1977 had a brief but memorable ten-year acting career, appearing in the legendary cult TV series The Prisoner, a couple of Hammer films (The Devil Rides Out, Countess Dracula) and the giallo The Perfume of the Lady in Black as well as films by Ken Russell (Women in Love, John Schlesinger (Sunday Bloody Sunday), François Truffaut (Day for Night) and finally Alain Resnais (Stavisky), after which she retired as an actress to pursue her main creative passion, visual art.

(The link is to a 2015 interview that offers more detail than any obituary I've turned up thus far, although I'm not sure what the Godard connection is supposed to be.)

[captveg]

Actor Kevyn Major Howard

[colinr0380]

Actress Kim Sae-ron at 25. I have not seen any of her films but a quick glance through imdb shows that she co-starred with Bae Doo-na in a 2014 film A Girl At My Door, which played in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

[hearthesilence]

"Jamie Muir died today 17.02.2025 in Cornwall, UK, with his brother George by his side."

Jamie was the drummer/percussionist with whom I worked on the King Crimson album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973). He had a volcanic effect on me, professionally and personally, in the brief time we were together many years ago – an effect which I still remember half a century later. I’m sorry we lost touch, but his departure from our working relationship was so sudden and unexpected, I sort of assumed he didn’t want anything more to do with me and my colleagues in King Crimson!

He was a lovely, artistic man, childlike in his gentleness. There was probably a dark side underneath. It could be be glimpsed as he climbed the PA stacks in a wolf’s fur jacket, blood (from a capsule) pouring from his mouth, on a rainy Thursday night in Preston, Lancs., to hurl chains across the stage at his drumkit. One of these Robert Fripp will tell you, only narrowly missed him.

His conversations with Jon Anderson at my 1973 wedding party, in Jon’s words, ‘changed my life’. Jamie also changed mine.

I consider it a privilege to have known, and benefitted from the company of, a man of such quiet power, even briefly. He struck me as one of those about whom one might truthfully say he was a beautiful human being. He will be much missed. Goodbye, Jamie.

[nowhereisaplace]

RIP - he had a huge effect on the music of the period of Crimson. The 50th anniversary of Larks was released last year and contains all the sessions, so you can really dive into what Muir was all about back in January 73. Pretty amazing stuff.

[hearthesilence]

I posted this before, but Crimson is the one progressive rock act that I'm completely on board with, and the mid-'70s configuration (which only grew leaner and better) is easily my favorite era. Next to Red, I'd say Larks’ Tongues in Aspic is their next best album but the enormous bounty of recordings from that era is definitely worth wading through.

[Aunt Peg]

Actress Kim Sae-ron at 25. I have not seen any of her films but a quick glance through imdb shows that she co-starred with Bae Doo-na in a 2014 film A Girl At My Door, which played in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

A Girl at My Door is wonderful. Can't recall whether I first saw it at the cinema or on DVD but I do own a copy of the film (either US or South Korean release).

[fdm]

Ditto with Crimson for me. I think it was Starless & BIble Black that got the most play at the time in our little IU dorm clique (or maybe it just seemed that way as I like it the best), closely followed by Lark's Tongues In Aspic. Though once Red was released it also got a good amount of play before the guy with the stereo graduated.