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Herb Jeffries, 100 years old, star of many all black western films and jazz singer.

Karlheinz Böhm, known from ''Peeping Tom" and the Sissi films together with Romy Schneider.

pet42 wrote:Karlheinz Böhm, known from ''Peeping Tom" and the Sissi films together with Romy Schneider.

And a number of Fassbinders - Martha (which includes his character as a focal point of this spectacular shot), Effi Briest, Fox and His Friends and Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven

Henning Carlsen, director of Hunger (1966) and more (link points to an obituary in Danish).

Joan Lorring, Oscar-nominated actress for The Corn Is Green.

I can't believe that the forum collectively missed the death of the great Bunny Yeager last week!

Rik Mayall.

antnield wrote:Rik Mayall.

I was a bit too young for The Young Ones, but watched Bottom loads as a teenager and watched Drop Dead Fred plenty of times too.

His 80's Thatcherite political caricature, the scheming Alan B'stard in The New Statesman, was very good too. Not many people could portray frustrated mania to the point of insanity that he could. Though his characters were often unlikeable, given that they could become annoying to the point of psychotic (his destructive imaginary friend to Phoebe Cates in the attempt to break the US market, the frantic Drop Dead Fred, is probably another for the list of male equivalents to 'manic pixie dream girls', though it is also very much influenced by Dr Seuss' Cat In The Hat)

Bottom at its best was brilliantly crude (the closest that live action comedy came to Looney Tunes cartoon violence, albeit more sexualised and grubby!) and though it was inevitable that the feature film version of the series, Guest House Paradiso, would never really translate the qualities of the show to a feature film, joining the long list of failed small-to-big screen British comedy series, it does have the distinction of featuring Vincent Cassel, Bill Nighy and Simon Pegg amongst the supporting cast! (and a very early role for Sophia Myles, soon to be in the fourth Transformers film, as a "saucy wood nymph"!)

I only know him from Drop Dead Fred, which was enough to halt his career on this side of the ocean, but while scrambling to place the name I kept lumping that film in with the work of Yahoo Serious as far as "Failed Region-Specific Comedian Crossovers," but it's nice it sounds like he had plenty of success in the UK

Drop Dead Fred was a family favorite growing up, and he was wonderful as Flashheart in Blackadder as well. Hard to imagine someone with such enormous energy passing away so early.

The Comic Strip Presents, with most of those involved with The Young Ones, was brilliant. Couldn't wait for it every Sunday to watch it on MTV before 120 Minutes.

Goddamnit. This is a real crusher for me.

The Young Ones was one of those shows that you could watch over and over and absolutely never tire of. It's like Python in the sense that certain things and people (Echo and the Bunnymen, Leonard Cohen, Cliff Richard, the Transvaal) cannot be mentioned around me without me flashing on something from the show and either smiling or, depending on my mood, actually laughing.

Martha Hyer.

Perkins Cobb wrote:Martha Hyer.

Mrs. Hal B. Wallis. A very pretty lady, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for "Some Came Running" (1958).

Veronica Lazar.

Eric Hill the creator of Spot, who my daughter adores.

Ruby Dee.

The faemmle isn't quite as big now: Carla Laemmle.

Little Jimmy Scott