Passages

[antnield]

Kate O'Mara.

[antnield]

Screenwriter Everett De Roche, whose credits included Patrick, Long Weekend, Roadgames and Razorback.

[Perkins Cobb]

Screenwriter Everett De Roche, whose credits included Patrick, Long Weekend, Roadgames and Razorback.

Terrible news. Long Weekend is a masterpiece. Between this and Wendy Hughes, the Australian New Wave is taking some major hits.

[colinr0380]

Seconded, all of the above films are terrific, particularly the magnificent 'nature takes revenge' films Long Weekend and Razorback, films where you end up rooting for the threatening wildlife over the horrible characters!

Everett De Roche also wrote the Terence Stamp and Elizabeth Shue vs super-intelligent orangutan movie Link (the film that undid in one stroke all of the friendly interspecies bridge-building of the Clint Eastwood ape movies!) and the amusingly nutty psychic thriller film starring David Hemmings and Robert Powell, Harlequin (aka Dark Forces on US DVD), a film which answers the unasked question of just how dangerous David Copperfield would have been if he'd been driven by sinister political motivations!

[Perkins Cobb]

Yet another Australian New Waver, producer David Hannay.

[GaryC]

TV scriptwriter Bob Larbey, often in partnership with John Esmonde, best known for the sitcom The Good Life. Cinema credits include the big-screen version of Please Sir! and an episode of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.

[gcgiles1dollarbin]

Peter Matthiessen

[colinr0380]

Country music guitarist Arthur Smith, whose 1955 Feudin' Banjos received a new lease of life when used in Deliverance!

[bamwc2]

John Pinette, who for some reason I will always remember as the obese kilt wearing Scottish nerd from the Fox TV Revenge of the Nerds sequel.

[domino harvey]

Was that the guy that Jerry Seinfeld kept trying to make happen through a real life Bania-esque mentorship?

[bamwc2]

Was that the guy that Jerry Seinfeld kept trying to make happen through a real life Bania-esque mentorship?

No idea, but he did play the key role of the mugging victim in the series finally of Seinfeld.

[swo17]

the series finally

Is this the official term for the final episode of a show that has gone on for years past its sell-by date?

[bamwc2]

the series finally

Is this the official term for the final episode of a show that has gone on for years past its sell-by date?

Oops. I guess that's what happens when you grade for six hours straight and then write a thousands words. I suppose it might be time to go to bed.

[Calvin]

Longyu Li, who I can't find an English language obituary for but was a cinematographer whose works included Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day and Mahjong

[flyonthewall2983]

Peaches Geldof

[domino harvey]

Jesus, crazy. Her mother died of an OD too

[repeat]

Peter Liechti. Crushingly sad news.

Edit: changed link to Fandor article, just published. Cause of death apparently cancer.

[MichaelB]

Jesus, crazy. Her mother died of an OD too

"Too?" As far as I'm aware, the cause of death hasn't been announced yet.

[George Kaplan]

Mary Anderson, who "had role in GWTW" as the headline announces, but, more significantly, co-starred unforgettably, in Alfred Hitchcock's LIFEBOAT; and was also the widow of the great cinematographer Leon Shamroy.

[MichaelB]

Jesus, crazy. Her mother died of an OD too

"Too?" As far as I'm aware, the cause of death hasn't been announced yet.

The post-mortem has still to be carried out, but the police have pretty much ruled out anything to do with drugs because of the lack of any evidence in her flat (leftover drugs or anything that might once have contained them). The most convincing current hypothesis is that the cardiac arrest that she was warned she was risking after she confessed to following a controversial rapid weight-loss diet (essentially, nothing but liquidised vegetables for weeks on end) might have finally happened.

It certainly looks like a desperately tragic accident.

[flyonthewall2983]

The Ultimate Warrior

[GaryC]

Sue Townsend, best known for the Adrian Mole books, two of which were were adapted for British TV.

[GaryC]

Richard Hoggart at the age of 95. His IMDB entry is due to his appearances on British TV, and he was a member of the Pilkington Committee which was behind the setting up of BBC2. He is best known for his book The Uses of Literacy and for being a defence witness at the trial for obscenity of Penguin Books in 1960 for their publication of an unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. The book's acquittal was a landmark in the history of British censorship of the arts.

[MichaelB]

Phil Hardy, editor of, amongst other things, the massive Aurum Film Encyclopaedias.

[Mr. Deltoid]

For some reason I thought Phil Hardy had died a while ago. His Aurum Encyclopedia's were key references for me growing up (1990's, pre-internet), as they were intelligently written and cast their net far and wide (especially the Horror and Sci-Fi editions!) to include plenty of foreign titles, which at the time seemed incredibly exotic. I always wished that he would update them (my Horror and Western editions only go to 1992, the Sci-Fi to 1994), but now, sadly, that wont happen (though if I recall, Kim Newman provided a lot of the updates in the Horror edition). Sadly, all editions now seem to be out of print.