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Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia, who amongst other things bestowed Edna Everage with her Damehood (at the end of Barry McKenzie Holds His Own).

He was played by Max Phipps in the 1983 Australian TV miniseries The Dismissal.

Alvin Stardust, singer and occasional actor. He also appears as himself (in his previous persona as Shane Fenton) in Michael Winner's Play It Cool in 1962.

GaryC wrote:Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia, who amongst other things bestowed Edna Everage with her Damehood (at the end of Barry McKenzie Holds His Own).

He was played by Max Phipps in the 1983 Australian TV miniseries The Dismissal.

Tangential, but he would've been PM if Labor had won the election that everyone expected them to in 1969, all of which figured prominently in the background of Don's Party.

Jack Bruce.

Damn He'd just put out an album this year too, Silver Rails. I'd heard he had health trouble for awhile, it was actually his first problems and recovery that initiated Cream's reunion in 2005.

Daniel Boulanger.

Käbi Laretei - Ingmar Bergman's fourth wife

I had so much fun listening downloaded Car Talk episodes while on tour. Probably the only podcast I've ever really been into.

You kinda knew something was up when they retired...he'll be missed.

Renee Asherson.

Warren Clarke - probably best known internationally for A Clockwork Orange, but a hugely prolific character actor who was a very familiar face on British TV over the last four decades, equally at home in drama or comedy.

Rebekah Gibbs, UK actress best known for her TV work, especially a regular role on Casualty, of breast cancer at age 41.

MichaelB wrote:Warren Clarke - probably best known internationally for A Clockwork Orange, but a hugely prolific character actor who was a very familiar face on British TV over the last four decades, equally at home in drama or comedy.

And his role in A Clockwork Orange was an extremely important, albeit minor, one as "Dim" a member of Alex's gang of young hooligans who reappears after Alex has been through his 'aversion therapy' for his anti-social tendencies and goes on the run. He bumps into Dim as the new leader of a gang of policemen who batter Alex with their truncheons with the same kind of relish that the gang of juvenile delinquents were battering the tramp with earlier on. It makes a quite incendiary point about the path that 'no future' lower class thugs like Dim eventually take if they aren't made examples of by the system: they become it themselves.

It makes his later policeman roles quite amusing!

Clarke did pop up in some small parts in an eclectic series of films: getting circumcised with his squadmates in the misplaced hope of a week's sick leave in The Virgin Soldiers ("they put babies through that?"), in the Charlton Heston version of Anthony and Cleopatra, O Lucky Man!, Clint Eastwood's Firefox, the comedy Top Secret! and the disaster movie Ishtar, and also in Blow Dry (although that film is perhaps better known as the film in which Josh Hartnett does a Yorkshire accent!)