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27-year-old boxer Patrick Day, four days after sustaining head injuries in the ring that led to a coma

Fiery Angel wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:25 pm Harold Bloom

Respect. R.I.P.

Julie Gibson, actress in Three Stooges shorts and probably best known by forum members as the woman who sings "Home to the Arms of Mother" in Hail the Conquering Hero. She was 106.

89, wow. I'd bet people started death pools on him when he was still in his 30's.

This guy lived an absolutely incredible life and had a style all his own, the consummate "people are a lotta things" guy. The audiobook version of him reading The Kid Stays in the Picture is a must listen.

I guess Coppola knew he was ill. When he screened the new restoration of The Cotton Club at the NYFF some weeks back, he singled out Evans (who wasn't there) and said he wanted to express his gratitude because he knew his kind words would make it back to Evans.

Social media is saying John Witherspoon of the Friday films

I remember him from the Wayans Brothers sitcom, he was a reliable crank

Everything about Friday is special, but John’s performance in particular seems to a favorite among most fans, for good reason. He also has a hilarious cameo in Boomerang.

Not to forget a great late role as Grandpa in The Boondocks.

I think we've already highlighted the internationally famous names (directors Ryszard Bugajski, Janusz Kondratiuk and Kazimierz Kutz, cinematographers Witold Sobociński and Jerzy Wójcik), but here's a list of everyone in the Polish film and TV industries who passed away between 1 November 2018 and 31 October 2019.

Gay Byrne, a genuinely beloved TV and radio presenter in Ireland. He was host of the national broadcaster's flagship talk show for almost 40 years and did a great deal in modernising the country by bringing many previously taboo subjects to the fore.

Omero Antonutti, best known as the stern father from Padre Padrone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omero_Antonutti

Nik Powell, one of the major figures in independent British production over the last 40 years (he's best known for his partnership with Stephen Woolley at Palace in the 1980s) and more recently he was the head of Britain's National Film and Television School. It's not the slightest exaggeration to say that post-1980 British cinema would have looked very different without his input - he was one of the great behind-the-scenes string-pullers.

(An immediate example springs to mind: not merely making a film as ambitious as The Company of Wolves in the first place, since Palace had barely produced anything by then, but getting its premiere run at the flagship Odeon Leicester Square, almost unheard of for an independent film. Although of course hubris met nemesis shortly afterwards in the form of Absolute Beginners - but for all that film's many faults, you can't accuse it of lacking creative ambition.)

Actor Charles Levin, found naked and partially eaten by vultures, with "no signs of external genitalia present."

The perpetually underrated Stephen Dixon.

James Le Mesurier, whose NGO helped train the Syrian based White Helmets organisation has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul only a week after being criticised by name by the Russian government.

The work of the White Helmets has been the subject of a couple of critically acclaimed films - Last Men In Aleppo and winner of 2017's Best Documentary Short Oscar The White Helmets

Nothing I can find in English yet, but ...

Vlada Petric

Unparalleled observer/thinker who, like a lot of old-school scholars, rarely wrote.

Virginia Leith, best known for starring in The Brain That Wouldn't Die. She also starred in A Kiss Before Dying and Kubrick's Fear and Desire.

Croatian producer Branko Lustig, whose forays into the murky waters of international co-production included the not entirely unsuccessful Schindler's List and Gladiator.