Passages

[colinr0380]

Patrick Macnee.

Aside from his seminal role in The Avengers series, and his brief cameo in This Is Spinal Tap, I'll also mostly remember Patrick Macnee for his role as the kindly doctor advising Dee Wallace to rest and recuperate at his healthy living resort in the middle of nowhere that also just happens to be the base of a werewolf sex-cult, in The Howling!

EDIT: Perhaps one of his most notable later appearances was cameoing with a bevvy of beauties (and Noel and Liam Gallagher) in the music video for the Oasis song Don't Look Back In Anger!

[hearthesilence]

Phil Austin of the Firesign Theatre.

[flyonthewall2983]

Chris Squire

[Perkins Cobb]

Jack Carter.

[Perkins Cobb]

Sergio Sollima.

[mizo]

Patrick Macnee.

Missed this, but can we all not agree that the man's finest moment was introducing the Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol and emphasizing how his family made a tradition of watching it every year because there's just "something special" about it, all the while stealthily avoiding any mention of the fact that he plays a young Jacob Marley in it?

[colinr0380]

The singer Val Doonican, best known for his long running TV show. In film terms, he sang the title song of the harrowing otter-centric follow up from the Born Free team, Ring Of Bright Water.

[antnield]

Jerry Weintraub.

[dx23]

Amanda Peterson

[FrauBlucher]

Roy C Bennett

[FrauBlucher]

Irwin Keyes

[Drucker]

Omar Sharif

[Professor Wagstaff]

Roger Rees

[domino harvey]

Good time to recommend BlackMale again, which gave Rees a memorable starring role. You can read my writeup here

[colinr0380]

Apparently Roger Rees played the title role in the second and third of Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper films, but while I'd love to one day say that I'd seen those films, I currently more remember him from that early 90s run of bad guys/trained killers in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Teen Agent and Prince Charles in Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After.

On Omar Sharif, I had not previously realised that his earliest roles were in films by Youssef Chahine!

[sir_luke]

Now that I'm not a tween I consider Robin Hood: Men in Tights mostly a cringe-worthy and painfully labored attempt at comedy, but Rees absolutely kills it as the Sheriff of Rottingham. I love to see a totally go-for-broke gleefully silly performance from someone who also obviously has formidable dramatic presence. He is and has always been my favorite part of that movie.

[dx23]

Satoru Itawa, President of Nintendo

[jbeall]

Arthur Cave, Nick Cave's 15-year-old son. Awful news.

[Mr. Deltoid]

Very sad about Nick Cave's son. I only just caught up with 20,000 Days on Earth a few weeks ago and loved the scene where Cave is sitting and eating pizza with his sons, quoting Al Pacino as Scarface plays on the TV. Must be devastating.

[Perkins Cobb]

Aubrey Morris.

[GaryC]

Olaf Pooley, aged 101. Obituaries so far are from Doctor Who and Star Trek websites, as he was the oldest actor alive to have appeared in each series.

[lacritfan]

It appears composer James Horner has died in a plane crash tonight.

Just heard this interview with Antoine Fuqua about Southpaw. According to Fuqua Horner not only did the score for free but paid money out of his own pocket for his staff. Then to top it off before he died he wrote the score for Fuqua's upcoming Magnificent Seven remake based on the script alone. You can jump ahead to about 5:45.

[flyonthewall2983]

That's remarkable. Hopefully whatever was composed winds up in the film.

[Feego]

Alex Rocco

[Professor Wagstaff]

George Coe