Passages

[knives]

William Cambpell of Star Trek fame.

[Feego]

Sad news. I'll always remember him as the creepy older brother in Dementia 13.

[GaryC]

Listed here because she does have an IMDB entry, SF writer and critic Joanna Russ.

[GaryC]

Elisabeth Sladen.

Now that is a shock - she was only 63. I've recently rewatched (for review) Planet of the Spiders, and she features quite heavily in the extras, as you might expect.

Apparently Sarah Jane Smith was the longest-running television character (played by the same person) outside soap operas.

As it turns out, Ms Sladen was 65, not 63 - not the first actor to shave a couple of years off their age!

[MichaelB]

As it turns out, Ms Sladen was 65, not 63 - not the first actor to shave a couple of years off their age!

When compiling biographical data for various BFI projects, I tended to assume that if an actress had two alternative birthdates, the earlier one was more likely to be correct. This wasn't always true, but at as a rule of thumb it was pretty reliable.

[Polybius]

William Cambpell of Star Trek fame.

That leaves Ansara as the last of the original series Klingon captains. Campbell was a good foil for Kirk in Trouble. I always sort of regretted that he didn't become a semi-regular.

[mfunk9786]

Famous bearded man Osama Bin Laden

[Perkins Cobb]

50s sexpot Yvette Vickers, evidently found in an advanced state of decomposition.

[GaryC]

Heavyweight boxer and TV personality Sir Henry Cooper, who also had an acting role in Royal Flash (1975).

[antnield]

Jackie Cooper

[GaryC]

He has an IMDB entry because of appearances as himself in documentaries, but British-born Australian-resident Claude Choules , the last remaining known combat veteran of World War I, has passed away at the age of 110.

[Lemmy Caution]

Heavyweight boxer and TV personality Sir Henry Cooper, who also had an acting role in Royal Flash (1975).

You can also see interviews with Cooper (and nine other notable heavyweights) in the excellent recent documentary Facing Ali. Not just a boxing film, it captures aging men looking back on what they made of their careers and lives. Highly recommended.

[Feego]

Arthur Laurents

[dadaistnun]

Sada Thompson

[HelenLawson]

Marian Mercer

[Feego]

Dana Wynter

[ambrose]

Oniroku Dan

[Perkins Cobb]

Exploitation star Ross Hagen, apparently, per the director of American Grindhouse (via Facebook).

[dadaistnun]

John Walker of the Walker Brothers.

[Polybius]

Exploitation star Ross Hagen, apparently, per the director of American Grindhouse (via Facebook).

Chili peppers can no longer torment him.

[antnield]

Dolores Fuller.

[ambrose]

Gravure idol Miyu Uehara

Gravure idols

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[ambrose]

Lawrence Lee, Stained-glass artist whose crowning glory is the nave windows of Coventry Cathedral. My interest in this man and his art derives from the fact that the first sixteen years of my life were spent in Coventry.

[dadaistnun]

Mary Murphy

[antnield]

Documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker.