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British TV 'agony aunt' (and Brass Eye victim) Claire Rayner.

antnield wrote:(and Brass Eye victim)

She fought back, though.

Simon MacCorkindale (Susan George's husband and a fine actor in his own right).

dad1153 wrote:Susan George's husband

Lucky bastard...too bad he couldn't enjoy it longer

Barbara Billingsley, who spoke jive.

fiddlesticks wrote:Barbara Billingsley, who spoke jive.

That scene in Airplane! is priceless! "Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help. Jive ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow."

Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy in the Weissmuller Tarzan movies and later Bomba the Jungle Boy.

Tom Bosley.

NO. Much like Barbara Billingsley was everyone's mom, as someone who grew up on a heavy diet of David the Gnome and Happy Days reruns, Tom Bosley was a television father figure to me. I know it's become a huge cliche, but I always found the way Mr. Cunningham steered Richie in the right direction without ever being a cruel or nasty personality (or an anything-goes goofball) to be a perfect television representation of a good father to a teenage son. R.I.P., he'll be missed.

You low-brow--don't tell me you liked Julie & Julia too?

Sorry: only my id was a fan of Tom Bosley.

I would call it an Electra complex...*rimshot*

Gee, mfunk, you're not just id-driven scum, you're a little girl as well! Serves you right for liking, er, a movie.

Ok, fine. I retract my cheap joke and commend mfunk for his fitting eulogy to Tom Bosley.

Bob Guccione, who gave the world Caligula.

He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

HarryLong wrote:He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

He contributed a nice little interview for Criterion's release of if.... a few years back.

Cinematographer N. Paul Kenworthy Jr.

HarryLong wrote:He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

Ironically, he was probably more famous in Britain post-1990 than at any time before - appearing in Lindsay Anderson films (one of which was a calamitous flop) is as nothing when set against a lead role in a popular long-running sitcom with millions of viewers.

Mind you, I had absolutely no idea who Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley were prior to their deaths - what's one country's national televisual wallpaper is another's very occasional late-night airing on an obscure channel.

Alexander Anderson, the uncredited co-creator of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (click the link if you haven't heard the story).