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I'm kinda shocked nobody mentioned Charles Champlin at all. Some of his older PBS clips are online, or at least were a few years ago. He also makes a very funny cameo with Burt Reynold's in The Player.

Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78
The star of a pretty famous gov't video.
He was born in Itta Bena, MI which I only know from O Brother Where Art Thou?
Quite a career Barry had, including the rather surprising political comeback.

bearcuborg wrote:I'm kinda shocked nobody mentioned Charles Champlin at all. Some of his older PBS clips are online, or at least were a few years ago. He also makes a very funny cameo with Burt Reynold's in The Player.

Oh damn I had no idea he died. Read his stuff in the L.A. Times and enjoyed his show on Bravo back when it was still an arts channel.

P.D. James.

Mexican TV star Roberto Gomez 'Chespirito' Bolanos, whose characters like 'Chapulin Colorado' and 'Chavo del Ocho' were massively popular in Spanish TV the world over.

dad1153 wrote:Mexican TV star Roberto Gomez 'Chespirito' Bolanos, whose characters like 'Chapulin Colorado' and 'Chavo del Ocho' were massively popular in Spanish TV the world over.

This one hit pretty hard cause I grew up watching his shows as many did in Latin America. He's probably the biggest TV personality ever to come from Mexico. My profile pic here is a minature version of his popular Chapulin Colorado.

Giulio Questi.

Perkins Cobb wrote:Giulio Questi.

I know him best as the director of the amazing Django, Kill! Here's an introduction to the film by Alex Cox from when it was first shown in a 'Forbidden' season on the BBC back in 1997.

He made very unusual genre films. His giallo Death Laid an Egg is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

Ian McLagan, played keyboard for Faces.

He also played keys for the Stones.

You should appreciate this - that's of course Ian on the piano break.

And I have to mention Small Faces, they were a different band and pretty damn good in another way.

He also played with the other Faces on Rod Stewart's "(I Know) I'm Losing You" which was used in the Zodiac trailer. There's also this performance of it that was used in the beginning of The Brothers Bloom.

I read a story in the Keith Moon biography that after Moon died he was almost considered for the keyboard spot in The Who because of the Kenney Jones connection, but it didn't go beyond a rehearsal or two because they were set on getting John Bundrick for that (who was recovering from injury). Also, he married Moon's wife which probably would have been quite awkward if they went the other way.

Musician Nick Talbot, aka Gravenhurst, at 37. According to this Guardian article he also composed the score for the 2006 German film A Friend of Mine.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:He also played keys for the Stones.

Speaking of keys for the stones -- Bobby Keys just died on Dec 2.
All the sax you hear on Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. is Bobby Keys. Also can be seen helping Keith hurl a TV out a hotel window in the film Cocksucker Blues, and appears in the film Mad Dogs and Englishman as well. Also, played with many of the big rock acts of the 70's.

Ken Wetherwax (aka: Pugsley from The Addams Family' TV series)

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flyonthewall2983 wrote:He also played keys for the Stones.

Speaking of keys for the stones -- Bobby Keys just died on Dec 2.
All the sax you hear on Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. is Bobby Keys. Also can be seen helping Keith hurl a TV out a hotel window in Cocksucker Blues, and is int he film Mad Dogs and Englishman as well. Played with most of the big rock acts of the 70's.

His solo on Can't You Hear Me Knocking? (which is my single favorite Stones song) is a landmark of Rock and Roll saxophone.

And a landmark of The Weather Channel.

Polybius wrote: His solo on Can't You Hear Me Knocking? (which is my single favorite Stones song) is a landmark of Rock and Roll saxophone.

I've always been partial to the sax work on Sweet Virginia, both the solo and the comping. A real fine mixture of blues and gospel sound. I hadn't heard anything resembling gospel sax until I later discovered Vernard Johnson (his 1991 album I'm Alive is worth checking out).

There's a lot of Stones outtakes and demos and such floating around these days from the classic late 60's/early 70's era.
The reissued Exile has a bonus disc of outtakes, which Mick tinkered with, adding vocals and harmonica etc. But it is interesting to hear Good Time Women, a version of Tumbling Dice with different lyrics (similarly there's a new-lyric version of Street Fighting Man entitled Pay Your Dues). Better than the Exile bonus disc materials are the bootleg Exile outtakes, such as the song Exile on Main St. Blues which incorporates the song titles from the album into one song. Too bad it's just a 1 minute and a half demo.

Jan Laskowski, a major Polish cinematographer whose career stretched back to the early 1950s. Numerous classics on his filmography include The Last Day of Summer (Tadeusz Konwicki), Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz), Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (Janusz Morgenstern) and Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski).

Annemarie Duringer. Swiss theatre and film actor, notably for Fassbinder.

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TCM Remembers 2014

The TCM tribute included Angus Lennie, who, from a search of this thread, seems to have been overlooked. Having watch The Great Escape countless times as a kid, I always had a special affinity for his role as Ives among that film's terrific cast.