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Polish actress Bożena Dykiel never mustered the kind of international name recognition enjoyed by, say, her near-contemporary Krystyna Janda, but she appeared in numerous internationally celebrated Polish features dating back more than half a century—particularly films by Andrzej Wajda (The Wedding, The Promised Land, The Shadow Line, Man of Iron, The Possessed, Holy Week) but she also worked with Ryszard Bugajski (Interrogation), Wojciech Has (The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober), Krzysztof Kieślowski (Dekalog), Krzysztof Zanussi (The Contract), and Piotr Szulkin (War of the Worlds: Next Century, Ga-Ga. Glory to the Heroes) and others.

Canadian-American animator Jane Baer, who contributed to most of Disney’s animated features between the late 50’s and 1980’s.

Tom Noonan, per Karen Sillas' Instagram.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 4:22 am Tom Noonan, per Karen Sillas' Instagram.

A huge loss. I’ll never forget seeing him in person at a screening of What Happened Was…, as he matter-of-factly described how the film destroyed his marriage but he was immensely (and justifiably) proud of it. He asked people in the audience to email Criterion and beg them to release it.

The Wife is a big achievement as well. Like his brother, the playwright John Ford Noonan, he was an incredible writer

He knew how to grab it

Only one word can describe the passing of Tom Noonan...

Aw, man. For someone who certainly excelled at playing villains, he always came across as a warm & friendly person in interviews. I was thrilled Charlie Kaufman gave him such a significant role in Synecdoche, New York. What Happened Was... is really remarkable and I should finally get around to The Wife.

I tuned out of The X-Files several seasons before the end, but his guest spot in an episode centered around Mulder's sister was excellent.

dadaistnun wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 3:07 pm I was thrilled Charlie Kaufman gave him such a significant role in Synecdoche, New York.

He also gave him a significant task in Anomalisa, voicing every character except the 2 central characters, voiced by David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Michael Silverblatt.

Tom Noonan, always a joy to see him on screen, I just found my "What Happened Was..." laserdisc the other day. How has Francis Dolarhyde not been mentioned?!

Re: Tom Noonan, there was also his bad guy Kane, turned into a new robot in RoboCop 2. And he gets involved in that meta climax to Last Action Hero where his movie villlain character escapes into the real world and we end up at the premiere of the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger film co-starring Noonan as the baddie, who is in the process of giving a red carpet interview as a pretentious highbrow 'real life' version of himself who talks about staying in character all of the time for his roles. Which means that when his deranged scruffy killer turns up to the premiere as well, his companions and the theatre staff just roll their eyes that 'Tom's just taking Method Acting to extremes again', and indulge him as if this was a regular thing he was doing for every film he was in! (It does make you wonder what he did at the Manhunter premiere! )

Noonan is one that was very disappointing. Incidentally his death seems to connect with other character actors who passed on in the past few months (though there was something about how he hadn't acted in nearly a decade in contrast to the other ones who came to mind)

This was a week ago but Philippe Gaulier, the French acting teacher and clown, who influenced and taught a lot of well known actors.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/ ... es-aged-82

Never Cursed wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 2:43 am Eric Dane, of ALS

Only 53, that's shocking. I wasn't familiar with him at all before Euphoria so his phenomenal performance hit that much harder coming out of nowhere.

Robert Carradine, seemingly by suicide as a result of Bipolar Disorder. An underrated actor, and it’s unfortunate that he was most closely associated with the Revenge of the Nerds franchise

I've long been a fan of Robert Carradine. Coming Home is a film that has been so dear to my heart since it was first released. And it is just over 4 months since Penelope Milford who played is sister passed away. RIP.

One film of Carradine's that I have always been curious about seeing is 1977's Joyride in which he stars with a very young Melanie Griffith. As well as with brother David in Paul Bartel's Cannonball!

That is the year when he was in the supporting cast of films like Orca - Killer Whale and Hal Ashby's Vietnam war drama Coming Home. Then 1980 was big for him with Walter Hill's The Long Riders (again co-starring with his brothers) and in the ensemble cast of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One.

That was all leading up to his role in Revenge of the Nerds, though a couple of years before that there was his other high school set film Tag: The Assassination Game. Which probably helped to transition him into quite a few horror films later: as the pre-existing gas station attendant in the "Gas Station" segment of the Body Bags anthology directed by John Carpenter (and he appeared in small roles in Escape From L.A. and Ghosts of Mars); and as the antagonist in Fred Walton's 1988 TV movie remake of the 1965 William Castle-Joan Crawford film I Saw What You Did!. There appears to be lots of roles in Sci-Fi Channel style cheesy horrors in the later decades (including a 1996 TV movie remake of Humanoids From The Deep(!)) and it appears that one of his upcoming roles was about to be in another version of Night of the Living Dead.

beamish14 wrote: Tue Feb 24, 2026 5:19 am Robert Carradine, seemingly by suicide as a result of Bipolar Disorder. An underrated actor, and it’s unfortunate that he was most closely associated with the Revenge of the Nerds franchise

I think you mean Lizzie Maguire (at least for millennials)

First thing I thought of as well

The legendary Willie Colon. As the headline states: trombonist who pioneered salsa music.
Just 75. Made his first recording at 16.

Éliane Radigue

There's a lovely documentary from a few years ago on female electronic composers called Sisters with Transistors that has a lot of great archival footage of her and numerous others (Ciani, Derbyshire, Oram, Amacher, Spiegel, Oliveros). The highlight for me though was present day (2019/2020) footage of Radigue as her Occam is arranged for strings and performed for her. It's incredibly moving as she talks about how this was always how she had imagined it in her mind and has now seen it come to fruition. It's on Tubi (and Kanopy, depending on your library).

Katherine Short, daughter of Martin Short.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/24/martin-s ... rine-dead/

Bill Mazeroski, 89. Known as a great fielding, light hitting 2nd baseman. Clocked one of the most famous home runs in baseball history to defeat the Yankees dynasty in 1960. The Yanks were in 9 of the last 11 World Series, with a 7-2 record, going into that 1960 world series. (NY in 15 of 18 WS from 1947 to '64).

Pirates were underdogs. And in the Yanks 3 wins in the series, NY outscored Pittsburgh 38-3. Absurd. Game 7 was a wild affair, with Pittsburgh scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the 8th, to go ahead 9-7, only to have the Yanks score 2 in the top of the 9th to tie it 9-9. Light hitting Mazeroski leads off the bottom of the 9th and clocks the 2nd pitch over the 406 marker on a fairly tall outfield wall. Looks 15-20' feet high, though maybe an illusion caused by having 5'7" Yogi Berra chasing it in left field (what's he doing out there?). All-time classic MLB moment.