Passages

[flyonthewall2983]

Paco de Lucía, whose film work included Carlos Saura's Carmen and Stephen Frears' The Hit.

A piece of his was also featured in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.

[Polybius]

Roger Hill, portrayer of the martyred visionary Cyrus in The Warriors

[dadaistnun]

Robert Ashley

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Robert Ashley

Had the honour and good chance to sit next to him and chat during the Huddersfield Contemporary Festival a couple or so years back. Fascinating character whose background and theories derived from speech therapy made for librettos (libretti?) rich in the accidental poetry and cadences of everyday speech. Sometimes very moving as in his opera about an old people's home but more often a noirish mordant humour.
Resnais yesterday and Ashley today .The world is falling to pieces.

[antnield]

Wu Tianming.

[telamonides]

Shocked no one mentioned Alain Resnais!

[swo17]

On the contrary, he got his own thread.

[telamonides]

I see. It was moved before I saw it! Thanks.

[dad1153]

Game show host Geoff Edwards.

[fdm]

Sheila MacRae

[GaryC]

Wendy Hughes

Only 61. A very sad day. One of the leading Australian screen actresses from the 70s onwards, without a doubt.

[GaryC]

Northern Irish actor James Ellis, most often seen on TV, particularly as Bert Lynch in Z Cars.

(The IMDB says he was in Re-Animator, but that's certainly a different actor with the same name.)

[MichaelB]

Czech New Wave luminary and feminist film pioneer Věra Chytilová, immortal for Daisies, but with a massive body of work in total, much of which is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.

[Perkins Cobb]

S. Lee Pogostin, screenwriter and director of a single cult film, Hard Contract (1969).

[Minkin]

Cynthia Lynn - Helga in Hogan's Heroes

[lacritfan]

Trailer Voiceover Artist Hal Douglas

[colinr0380]

British politician Tony Benn - film connections here are that he turns up in a few recent documentaries: Michael Moore's Sicko, Julien Temple's London: The Modern Babylon and Ken Loach's The Spirit of '45.

[domino harvey]

David Brenner

[FrauBlucher]

Sad news. He was the first of the new wave comics that I became very familiar with. I loved his comedy. At the time it was unique. I would always stay up to watch Carson if Brenner was on.

[mfunk9786]

I had never realized Brenner was so old - although, he had always said he exaggerated his age by a decade - I wonder if that 78 is the accurate figure or the one assisted by his showbusiness ambitions!

[flyonthewall2983]

I really liked his HBO special that he did in the late 90's. I'd never heard of him and wondered why he merited an HBO special to begin with, but I think I was locked into what he was doing within the first joke.

[neilist]

Gary Burger of The Monks. :'(

[Drucker]

Transatlantic Feedback is absolutely one of the best rock documentaries there is, and the book is a real treat too, if you want a little more in-depth knowledge about the band. One of my favorite albums of all time. Truly a shame.

[Drucker]

Scott Asheton of the Stooges.

[tavernier]

L'Wren Scott