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Re: Passages

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:23 am
by knives

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:03 am
by Feego
Sad news. I'll always remember him as the creepy older brother in Dementia 13.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:08 am
by GaryC
Listed here because she does have an IMDB entry, SF writer and critic Joanna Russ.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:37 pm
by GaryC
GaryC wrote:
MichaelB wrote:Elisabeth Sladen.
Now that is a shock - she was only 63. I've recently rewatched (for review) Planet of the Spiders, and she features quite heavily in the extras, as you might expect.
Apparently Sarah Jane Smith was the longest-running television character (played by the same person) outside soap operas.

As it turns out, Ms Sladen was 65, not 63 - not the first actor to shave a couple of years off their age!

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:25 pm
by MichaelB
GaryC wrote:As it turns out, Ms Sladen was 65, not 63 - not the first actor to shave a couple of years off their age!
When compiling biographical data for various BFI projects, I tended to assume that if an actress had two alternative birthdates, the earlier one was more likely to be correct. This wasn't always true, but at as a rule of thumb it was pretty reliable.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:42 am
by Polybius
That leaves Ansara as the last of the original series Klingon captains. Campbell was a good foil for Kirk in Trouble. I always sort of regretted that he didn't become a semi-regular.

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 3:18 am
by mfunk9786

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 12:12 pm
by Perkins Cobb
50s sexpot Yvette Vickers, evidently found in an advanced state of decomposition.

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 3:14 pm
by GaryC
Heavyweight boxer and TV personality Sir Henry Cooper, who also had an acting role in Royal Flash (1975).

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 10:08 pm
by antnield

Re: Passages

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 7:01 am
by GaryC
He has an IMDB entry because of appearances as himself in documentaries, but British-born Australian-resident Claude Choules , the last remaining known combat veteran of World War I, has passed away at the age of 110.

Re: Passages

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:08 am
by Lemmy Caution
GaryC wrote:Heavyweight boxer and TV personality Sir Henry Cooper, who also had an acting role in Royal Flash (1975).
You can also see interviews with Cooper (and nine other notable heavyweights) in the excellent recent documentary Facing Ali. Not just a boxing film, it captures aging men looking back on what they made of their careers and lives. Highly recommended.

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 2:14 am
by Feego

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:49 pm
by dadaistnun

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 4:08 pm
by HelenLawson

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 5:52 am
by Feego

Re: Passages

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:15 pm
by ambrose

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 6:02 pm
by Perkins Cobb
Exploitation star Ross Hagen, apparently, per the director of American Grindhouse (via Facebook).

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:51 pm
by dadaistnun
John Walker of the Walker Brothers.

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:44 am
by Polybius
Perkins Cobb wrote:Exploitation star Ross Hagen, apparently, per the director of American Grindhouse (via Facebook).
Chili peppers can no longer torment him.

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:24 pm
by antnield

Re: Passages

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:00 am
by ambrose

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 10:19 am
by ambrose
Lawrence Lee, Stained-glass artist whose crowning glory is the nave windows of Coventry Cathedral. My interest in this man and his art derives from the fact that the first sixteen years of my life were spent in Coventry.

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 2:03 pm
by dadaistnun

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 12:25 pm
by antnield
Documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker.