THE REAL 2014 Celebrity Death Cull Thread!

Time for a new thread after the sad death of Nelson Mandela last night.

As the Onion said "The first politician in all of history that is actually missed".

*edited because it's no longer Christmas, and BB has VIEWS on this sort of thing. :)

Barry Jackson. Cult TV favourite, has been in The Avengers, and Blake's 7 and that sort of thing. Has been in Doctor Who three times.

Józef Kowalski - Until recently thought to be the last surviving veteran of World War 1. In fact he was the last surviving veteran of the Soviet Polish war from 1919. He was a whopping 113 years old when he died on Saturday.

Q: When did WW1 end?
A: Joey Essex - 1979?

Staggering!!

Angela Gimondi, at the age of 103. Angela was one of the very first postwomen in Italy and used a bike to do her deliveries. Often, she was helped by her son Felice, and when he turned out to be quite fast on the bike she encouraged him to cycle more. In 1965, he won the Tour de France, then he won the Giro d'Italia in 1967, 1969 and 1976 and the Vuelta a Espana in 1968. Only four other people have managed to win all three Grand Tours.

Charles Grigg. Drew Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat for The Dandy between 1969 and 1983.

Colin Wilson, author of the Outsider in 1956. Spent a lot of time between a sleeping bag on Hampstead Heath and the British Library - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040

Peter O'Toole.

Eddie Murphy, that guy with the laugh...

this is rubbish news about Peter O'Toole. One of my favourite actors. Even recently I've very much enjoyed him in Dean Spanley and as a brilliantly bad tempered Pope in The Tudors. :(

Check this out for how he was the coolest man in the world. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m7Nq7kk

Yeah a great guy, heineken drinking camel was cool too in clip.

I miss the old 1990's Heineken. I could drink 4 pints of it and still make it home. The "new" Heineken is far too strong.

Joan Fontaine - Hitchcock regular. Rebecca is one of hers.

Ronnie Biggs, 'great' train robber.

Death should rarely be celebrated but in Biggs case I think that the world is better without him:

1. He only had a minor role in the robbery, yet has spent his whole life glorifying himself with it.
2. The robbery caused the permanent disability of Jack Mills. It annoys me when people glorify it.
3. His song with the Sex Pistols was one of the worst peices of music ever made.
4. He's been on my death list for nearly four years and AT LAST I've got a point for him.

........but how can you argue with the masterful poetry that was.....

Ronnie Biggs was doin' time,
Until he done a bunk.
Now he says he's seen the light,
and sold his soul for punk.

Obviously the double A side to no one is innocent (Sid Vicious's My Way) is fantastic.

I have the rare version of the 12" which includes a drunken interview/chat between Cook, Jones and Biggs. Bizarrely, the only place in Cambridge that ever had that was Jays - it's crap obviously!!

Cook and Jones always sounded like bricklayers when they were interviewed compared to Lyndon being all witty and sharp. At least Sid was generally quite funny, but he'd left the band by that point too.

2. The robbery caused the permanent disability of Jack Mills. It annoys me when people glorify it.

Also, his family continued to profit from it with big payments by tabloids for the story, whereas Jack Mills got £250 compensation (until an appeal was made later on).

Think i still have a copy as well. wonder if its worth anything now.
Be interesting to see whether the BBC still show 'The Great Train Robbery' drama tonight or in their normal craven way postpone it in case showing it upsets or offends the daily bile/easily offended. That said I will be out and my digi box recorder is not reliable

A film about Nelson Mandela is released and he dies the same day.

A film about The Great Train Robbery is on TV and Ronnie Biggs dies the same day.

Anyone interested in my screenplay about Justin Bieber? ;)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/christmas-comes-...

Christ BBs posted something worthwhile for once

;0)

I predict a spate of teen suicides.

Paul Torday. He wrote Salmon Fishing In The Yeman, which people know because they made it into a film, as well as some other thing.

Working in a library I find that as soon as a writer dies we get lots of requests for their work. Sometimes it is someone who hasn't been popular lately so we don't have much left in our county stock. And the people who had never paid attention to said writer before are appalled that we don't have more.

So my first thought when I read that Torday had died was "Oh good, we have lots of his stuff". This probably makes me a wrong 'un.

I hope the book was better than the film. Sentimental hogwash.

Dave Coleman, sports commentator.

David, always David. He was somewhat written out of BBC history having been a top, top commentator and presenter for many years. He was easy to ridicule but my goodness, he could call a 100m final brilliantly.

My totes amazeballs "cor blimey are you Nostradamus or what" spooky prediction for 2014: Warren Mitchell, early hours of the morning, 21st of April.

My death list this year (I start in September) was:

Clive James, Carla Laemmle, Erich Priebke, Chuck Yeager, Jozef Kowalski, Richard Adams, Ian Bradey, Jake Lamotta and Ronnie Biggs.

I'm doing very well, three points since September.

Do we reckon that Prince Philip is going to go in 2014 then? I think May the 26th in the mid afternoon.

Yup, I think so.

I wonder if the loss of dear Philip will cause Lizzie to rapidly decline? Otherwise she is going to be full of beans for another 15 years (at least) and poor Charlie Boy won't ever get a look in.

mikhal kalashnikov, invented the kalashnikov obviously.

Yusef Lateef

Thread title amended before BB nags me about it.

I bet everyone is now clicking on is thread expecting to see who has died. Sorry all.

Last week it was kill, this week, nag. I'm so misconstrued.

But you have a REPUTATION to uphold BB! ;)

Phil Everey RIP

Alicia Rhett, played India Wilkes in Gone With The WInd.

Simon Hoggart, writer and political journalist from Guardian.

Persil Susan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25696601

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bollocks wrong tghrtead

tghrtead

No Gaelic, please! This is a Cambridge based message board.

Alexandra Bastedo, played Sharron Macready in the cracking 60's spy / sci fi TV series The Champions. Everyone fancied her at the time.

Theme tune was fairly good, but not as good as some of them. http://youtu.be/HaFm2hTSsVY

John Horsley played Doc Morrissey in Reggie Perrin among many many other things.

Doctor: Do you find you can't finish the crossword like you used to, nasty taste in the mouth in the mornings, can't stop thinking about sex, can't start doing anything about sex, wake up with a sweat in the mornings, keep falling asleep during '"Play For Today"?

Reggie Perrin: Extraordinary, Doc! That's exactly how I've been feeling.

Doctor: So have I. I wonder what it is? Take two aspirins.

Not Trigger!
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-01-16/actor-roger-lloyd-pack-has-d...

(He was also in Doctor Who as the Cyber Controller in Rise of the Cyberman)

^ just got to put Lloyd Pack onto wikipedia's "Recent Deaths" page. I've not done that since Trish Keenan from Broadcast.

Classic Trig/Dave moments:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a544454/6-classic-trigger-only-foo...

Hiroo Onoda, that Japanese soldier who didn't realise that the Second World War had ended and defended his patch until 1974.

Ruth Duccini, last but one surviving munchkin from The Wizard of Oz.

Ken Trew. Costume designer, designed the 3rd and 7th Doctor's costumes as well as the first costume for the Master. Also done lots of other stuff like Bergerac and things like that.

Biquette, the infamous metal loving goat!
http://www.aux.tv/2014/01/infamous-grindcore-loving-goat-died/

Every venue should have a goat.

Pete Seeger. Boo. But he was 94. Decent knock.

Philip Huffmore Semen.

Did he gag.

The Mail front page describes Phillip Seymour Hoffman as "Hunger Games Star". Because, y'know, he hasn't really done much else has he?

Weird, I noticed that Donald Sutherland was described as 'Hunger Games star' the other week.

If people actually posted on the proper death cull thread rather than this shallow impostor, they would see that Phil was in the Big Lewboski as well as countless other great films.

Yep, nothing of substance ed__ like Capote or Happiness for example. The Daily Fail, fails yet again.

Reminds of when they referred to "quizmaster Steven Fry"

As JP would say "check this."

https://twitter.com/DMReporter

Samantha Juste, the girl who mimed putting a record onto the turntable in the 1960's episodes of Top of the Pops. At one point was married to Mickey Dolenz.

The Loch Ness Monster. RIP, poor Nessie! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-loch-ness-monster-i...

Christopher Barry. Fantastic cult tv director, did a shed load of Dr Who, Moonbase 3, The Tripods and All Creatures Great and Small. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Barry

Not to be confused with Chris Barrie, who played Rimmer from Red Dwarf, who is still alive.

Looking foward to Bigmal's alternative obit on the "other" thread soon. :)

Stuart Hall, Cultural theorist and sociologist.

Not to be confused with Stuart Hall, telly presenter and convicted sex criminal, who is still alive.

Shirley Temple, ultimate Hollywood child star.

Kudus to her for not going mad on drink and drugs in later life like so many other child stars seem to do.

Not to be confused with the cocktail "Shirley Temple", which is still drunk today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple_(cocktail)

Beat me to it. I was going to say "Shirley Temple, 85-year-old child star." And now I have.

I take pride in often being first to report these things, though that's quite good JT. Wish I'd thought of it.

Bump to annoy Mal and his inferior thread.

Really hoping we won't be adding Tony Benn to this list any time soon. Unless he's suffering and won't improve, of course, in which case I hope we will.

Yes, I think that Tony Benn will be one of those few people who I will miss when he goes too.

Yes, very sad to hear about Mr b, and Stuart Hall, whose work I studied for my degree.

Seán Potts, played tin whistle in the Chieftains.

Ian McNaught-Davis. Presented Making the Most of Your Micro and other computer programmes in the early 80's.

Still a brilliant watch, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6LsV-17z7Q&list=PLOtimvwAoYtlWZdX-MgnH...

Ralph Waite - Daddy Walton.

Tom Finney

Christopher Malcolm. Played Sarah's father in Labyrinth, had a small role in The Empire Strikes Back as Rogue 2 and was in lots of other stuff. Has never been in Doctor Who.

Jimmy Murakami: directed the animated version of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows.

Bob 'Bob 2' Casale from Devo. Shit.

Noooo, not another one! :(

*plays a ring modulated guitar as tribute*

I saw this news and thought of Silent Rob. And his ring modulator.

Also, bump to annoy Bigmal.

If you watch Devo's Satisfaction video the opening few seconds clearly show Mark Mothersbaugh playing a guitar with a ring modulator gaffer taped to it. It looks like the coolest thing in the world.

I've got that exact same brand of Ring Modulator, with it I can play "mechanical man" perfectly. :D

.

:

Ha!

I nearly bought an energy dome hat once. Then I decided to get a life. I still get tempted though.

I've always been tempted by the Devo action figures.

Gert Krawinkel - guitarist for Trio.

*puts on preset "Rock 1" in tribute*

I do hope that New Wave and Post Punk guitarists dieing isn't going to be a "thing" this year. At least John McGeoch and Snakefinger are already dead. I'd be worried for them otherwise.

I just found Trio's one and only TOTP appearence, which I've never seen before. Were they do this today they would quite literally be arrested for doing this performance (mostly for the indoor smoking).
http://youtu.be/VoZNbVGYl8o

That's absolutely brilliant!

Maybe that's why everyone calls it a 'kick drum'.

Malcolm Tierney. Has done an awful lot of TV, was in a quite rubbish Colin Baker Doctor Who story in 1986. He appeared in Star Wars as one of those moody British officers with a line of strepsils stuck to their breast pocket, as they go about their business on the Death Star.

http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130318060643/starwars/images/e...

Harold Ramis. That's Ghostbusters 3 buggered then.

Marty Thau - US punk legend - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Thau

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Watch out bigmal, I almost got confused and closed your account.

This is a forum for local Cambridge people only. No talking French here thank you very much. Also: You've posted on the wrong thread. :p

James Ellis from Z Cars. Was in a disappointing doctor who story in 1989.

Wendy Hughes. Played that roll up piano thing in the jeffries tube with Captain Piccard in Star Trek. To be quite honest that was a bit of a crap episode too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo

Foux da Fa Fa

Pretty much all the French I know.

Bob Crow.

We appear to have THREE death threads now!

Sorry, I was sorting spambots and probably posted in the wrong place. If only there was some way to identify the REAL thread.

Indeed. :) I considered changing the title to ALL CAPITALS but decided not to because that was a bit much.

It's simple really Art... Just get rid of the imposters and have the ORIGINAL 2014 celebrity death cull instead.

Tony Benn has now gone. Shame. One of the very few politicians I actually liked.

Just read about this. Very sad news indeed.

Gary Burger, singer of The Monks.

THIS is what you call a guitar solo.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iI0__9S1c

Scott Asheton, drummer of the Stooges.

Clarissa Dickson Wright.

Dr. Roger Leir - an reall doctor (of podiatry, with a proper doctorate to prove it) rather than the sort with a doctorate bought off some spammers for $100, who became famous for removing what he insisted were alien implants from numerous patients. As if that wasn't strange enough, he also looked exactly like Harry the Bigfoot in Harry and the Hendersons.

According to the highly respectable alienscalpel.com, "These objects have been scientifically investigated by some of the most prestigious laboratories in the world including Los Alamos National Labs, New Mexico Tech, Seal Laboratories, Southwest Labs, the University of Toronto, York University, and the University of California at San Diego. Their findings have been baffling and some comparisons have been made to Meteorite Samples. In addition some of the tests show metallurgical anomalies such as highly Magnetic Iron that is without crystalline form, combinations of crystalline materials mixed common metals, growth of biological tissue into or out of metallic substances, as well as isotopic ratios not of this world."

Quite a few other laboratories that got a chance to examine the objects reckoned they were more likely to be normal bits of glass, stone, metal splinters and the like, though.

Dave Brockie of Gwar.

Everybody is posting the celebrities death on the wrong thread :'(

Derek Martinus. Directed a lot of Dr Who and Blakes 7.

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Kate O'Mara from Dynasty, Triangle and she played The Rani in Dr Who several times in the 80's. Time and The Rani is maybe the worst Dr Who story of all time.

I went to see her in a play at the Arts Theatre only 8 months ago. Always a shock when someone you've seen recently suddenly dies.

Frankie knuckles :-(

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Reg Smart, one time chairman on Cambridge United FC.

Mickey Rooney, Hollywood actor, been in a massive load of stuff.

Peaches geldolf

Mary Anderson, one of three surviving members of Gone with the Wind and was in Hitchcocks Lifeboat. She must surely be the last person to die from Lifeboat, there were only about 8 people in the film.

The Ultimate Warrior, one of those WWF wrestlers when it was really big around 1991. I know who he was and I can only name four or five wrestlers so he must be pretty famous. I wonder what Hulk Hogan is doing nowadays?

Leee Black Childers - esteemed rock photographer/writer/manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leee_Black_Childers

I wonder what Hulk Hogan is doing nowadays?
Sex tape.

Wrong thread dagg, you're on the list.

Why aren't on the list? I post on this thread nearly every day.

Aha! I am name and shamed now! Great stuff. Lol.

Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole books.

Sad abut this, I've grown up with the Adrian Mole books.

My g/f listens to a lot of audio books, and weirdly she decided to recap the Adrian Mole books starting last week, so how brilliant they actually are has been on my mind very recently. Sad news, quite young too.

Edna Dore. Played Mo Butcher in Eastenders (apparently). Par for the course these days, she was in a slightly crap Doctor Who story with David Tennent a few years back.

Shane Gibson, guitarist from the rather silly nu metal band Korn. Sadly it wasn't either of the original guitar players who made all the 7 string bloops and effect pedal widdle noises that made them interesting.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My totes amazeballs "cor blimey are you Nostradamus or what" spooky prediction for 2014: Warren Mitchell, early hours of the morning, 21st of April.

Must remember to check "recent deaths" first thing tomorrow.

My totes amazeballs "cor blimey are you Nostradamus or what" spooky prediction for 2014: Warren Mitchell, early hours of the morning, 21st of April.

Must remember to check "recent deaths" first thing tomorrow.

JJ Cale.

^ Didn't he die last year?

Yes!

So he did. That'll teach me to repost things from other forums.

Things seem to be extremely quiet at the moment. This usually means some major celebrity is about to pop their clogs at any moment. I think it's going to be prince - either Philip or the artist formally known as.

Camilla's brother has popped his clogs, does he count?

"Falling backwards through a revolving door" seems a quite a rock and roll death to me!

There was smoking involved as well - definitely rock'n'roll!!

DJ E-Z Rock of "It Takes Two" fame. "Wooh Yeah" etc.

Oh no! Bob Hoskins :-(

Bill Dana, test pilot who was one of those who flew the Bell X1 (first plane to break the sound barrier). Since he flew highter than 50 miles up, he is technically one of the first people to go into space.

H. R. Giger.

Died after falling down the stairs, not having his head pulled off by some sort of surrealist cyborg monster in a surrealist landscape. I'm a bit disappointed.

^^^^^he is technically one of the first people to go into space.

Should that not read
he was technically one of the first people to go into space.

Was not is
Was not is

Say after me ... Was not is

pfffffft

Alan Wills, who was the drummer in Shack and later founded Deltasonic Records. Died following an accident in which a car hit him when he was on his bike.

Bigmal - you failed to point out my typo in the word "Higher" in the above post. Poor effort I feel. :P

According to my ^ prediction at 9:01am on Mon 23rd December 2013, Prince Philip has only 10 days to live. Watch and be stunned when I am correct at the start of the week after next.

One week to go until Prince Philip day.

Jack Brabham - triple F1 world champion.

I reckon that the Palace are keeping Philip's death (yesterday) under wraps for now. They know that the country isn't ready for the news yet.

i dont remember Palace having a player called Phillip

I'm now imagining all the Royal Family playing for Crystal Palace. It'd be like It's a Royal Knockout, but even worse.

or the way palace were playing until tony pulis took over as manager. And this from a west ham fan

Prince Charles might die of radiation poisoning in the near future after criticising Putin ;-]

Not only is Silent Rob wrong about Phil, he posted on the wrong thread.

Your on the list buddy boy.

^^^ Looks like we should be reporting the death of the apostrophe, bigmal.

Maya Angelou, her wot wrote some books.

Malcolm Glazer - Man U owner.

Karlheinz Böhm, the photograher chap from Peeping Tom.

I am beginning to suspect that I MIGHT have been wrong about Philip. But I'm still not sure, so I'm not admitting I'm wrong just yet.

They're obviously covering up his death, to avoid giving away that you're onto the Reptilian plan.

I'm trying to think of a way of showing that I didn't really predict his death, but that the Liberal Democrats did it instead. That's the British way of doing things isn't it?

Either that, or it's a huge secret rulers of the world cover up, like wrong fellow says.

Rik Mayall.

Bloody hell!

Anyone remember his anarchic reading of George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory?

Usually, when a celeb dies, I've either never heard of them or don't care that much. I'm genuinely gutted about Rik Mayall, though - stuff he was in helped define my youth.

Yep, this is a sad one.

Anyone remember his anarchic reading of George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory?
Yes, it was brilliant! I remember finding his description of George's gran ("she had a puckered up mouth like a dogs bottom") utterly hilarious.

V sad news :(

I always loved The Dangerous Brothers and Kevin Turvey, but such a catalogue of fantastic work! Astonishing physical comedian and one of a kind. #mayyourgodgowithyouRik

From Bob Mortimer:

https://twitter.com/RealBobMortimer/status/476065296550473728/photo/1

:-(

@ MAnda Panda
I thought for a second you ment Bod Mortimer was dead.
My first reaction was "thank god for that".
Can't stand the man.

I've just read that Adrian Edmondson has been arrested.

He was seen in the vacinity with a huge frying pan.

Eric Hill. Wrote many works of worthy classic literature, best known for writing Spot the Dog.

Sam Kelly from 'Allo 'Allo.

"Heil Hitler"
"Clomp"

Casey Kasem - US radio/tv DJ and voice of Shaggy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27859559

Francis Matthews - voiced Captain Scarlet.

Carla Laemmle - last surviving cast member of Bela Legosi's Dracula. She outlived the rest of the cast by about 70 years and died last week at the age of 104.

She's been on my death list for 5 years, I've finally got a point for her.

Gerry Goffin. Co wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday and the Loco Motion.

Jeffry Wickham. Was in Doctor Who in 1964 and also appeared in John Cleese's Clockwise. So he must be worth a mention on this thread. No one from Doctor Who has died for ages.

Gerry Conlon. One of the Guilford Four. Poor bloke. The film In The Name of the Father was based on him.

on a Cambridge message board I still don't understand the relevance of this thread but hey.... read on Twitter that 'Nursie' had died...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126268/?ref_=tt_cl_t6

nothing to see here, move along....

There is no relevance to this thread foolscrap as it is the wrong one.
Silent Rob knows this all to well.
The relevent thread is the Original 2014 Celebrity Death Cull Thread.
http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=48176&page=...

Put Nursie's death on the other thread then. You can't possibly attempt to pass your thread off as the genune ne if it isn't even comprehensive! :p

"Publishing millionaire and 60s radical " Felix Dennis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27972771

Eli Wallach. Played Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly among lots of other things including Mr Freeze in the 1960's Batman.

He was a whopping 98 years old when he died. Fancy.

Dick Jones, did the voice of Pinocchio in the Disney film of the same name. Did very little acting as an adult.

Hardly a bloody celebrity then was he bubba. Thats it your on the list.

Where? I'm not Name and Shamed as far as I can see! ;)

Tommy Ramone, last orginal member of the Ramones.

Ray Lonnen, spent 50 years having bit parts in everything from Z Cars to The Bill. Was in Doctor Who in 1973 so I call that a worthy career and worthy of inclusion on the list.

I'm curious to see what happens if I post on this thread and say "lol". Do I get Name and Shamed twice? We'll have to see.

Johnny Winter, who played guitar for Muddy Waters (and many others).

Now I'm curious to see what happens when I post on this thread and say Lol twice (x 2). Do I get named and shamed x3? Lol.

Elaine Stritch - US actress but big in the UK during the '70s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Stritch

Ahem, this has already been mentioned on the original celebrity death cull thread young lady.

I ain't no lady!!

Dora Bryan, the veteran British actress whose long career encompassed theatre, film, radio and television, has died in Hove, near Brighton, at the age of 91.

Jon Fat Beast, the chap who hung out with Carter USM and everyone shouted "YOU FAT BASTARD!" at. That's a bit sad.

Here he is In his prime. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUKm2_YZZo

Dick Smith. Did the make up and prothetics for lots of stuff. He did the vomiting and head spinning bits in the Exorcist and he created one of the very finest scenes in cinema history in Scanners: http://youtu.be/NG4NK-JxUgc

Mike Smith. Wuneffem DJ, married to Sarah Greene, crashed his helicopter in the late 80's so poor Sarah missed some of Going Live.

Marilyn Burns, the woman from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ie the only one who managed to escape from Leatherface at the end.

Robin Williams. Terrible news.

Charles Keating, too.

Lauren Bacall and JJ Murphy (but they weren't together at the time!)

I always found Robin Williams a bit sinister, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. I had no idea of his problems and I guess now I know it partially explains why. Poor bloke.

James Alexander Gordon

Richard Attenborough, actor fellow.

Ahem

Jim Petrie, drew Minnie the Minx for the Beano from 1961 to 2001. What a long time.

Love her or hate her? Joan Rivers

Donatas Banionis, played the lead in the original and best (not George Clooney remade) Solaris.

@ Nuttyprof, not impressed young lady.

Did you get Clare Cathcart first, too Bigmal?

I certainly did young lady, but I have never heard of her and so she did not meet the thread requirements.

Clare Cathcart played Sister Margaret in Father Ted. I've never heard of Call the Midwife or whatever it is she was in but I think even a tiny role in Father Ted meets thread requirements.

I still don't get the point of this thread. Given the title shouldn't it only include people who should have been culled a lot earlier and not those with some redeemable skill or quality, e.g. Thatcher, Saville, etc?

Totally agree foolscrap, this thread makes no sense whatsoever. The ORIGINAL Celebrity death cull thread is where people should be posting, not this young pretender.

Richard Kiel, played Jaws in the Bond movies. Moonraker is my favourite bond film. It's so silly!

Hearing reports about Robert "Throb" Young from Primal Scream on Twitter too. Rock and Roll doesn't seem to be a paticually healthy lifestyle does it?

Throbb now confirmed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29154972

Donald Sinden; another classic actor!

Joe Sample, keyboard player with The Crusaders.

Who

^Have all of the Who died, omg ;-]

@bigmal - If the 'Who' refers to The Crusaders, they were a funk-jazz-soul band, mostly active in the 70s. Their most famous track is probably "Street Life", featuring Randy Crawford.

I love that track ^

still have the vinyl album

The one with her hair braided and wearing a red top if my memory serves me correctly?

Ah yes I remember.... "Street life" and if I'm not mistaken "One day I'llllllll fly awayyyyy".

I seem to remember the cover as a kind of vine/camoflage pattern. I am work at the moment but will try to remember to look tonight and scan in tomorrow

The cover of the "Street Life" album had a city street scene with the three main band members (Stix Hooper, Wilton Felder, Joe Sample), and an unidentified female getting out of a car in the background.
See http://www.allmusic.com/album/street-life-mw0000649463

you are totally correct. The cover i visualised was Morning Dance by Spiro Gyra Jazz Fusion also from late 70's

Angus Lennie, classic actor. Was in the Great Escape, was the only one to survive in 633 Squadron and has been in Dr Who twice.

Ian paisley hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet either.

George Hamilton IV
Musician
George Hege Hamilton IV was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to country music in the early 1960s. Wikipedia
Born: July 19, 1937, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Died: September 17, 2014, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

George Sluizer - Directed one of the finest horror / thrillers ever made - Spoorloos (or The Vanishing).

Inexplicably he later decided to remake it in America, give it an absurd happy ending, and ended up with a remake just as terrible as the Nicholas Cage version of the Wicker Man.

Still, I'll forgive him for the second one since the first film is so brilliant.

Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who lived at Chatsworth House and was sister to Hitler's mate Unity and Oswald Mosley's wife Diana (other sister Jessica was a lefty).

Less well-known is the fact that as DJ Deb 3D, Deborah was a seminal drum 'n' bass DJ in the early 90s, and is credited with popularising the genre.

Some of the above is true.

^ I didn't know who Deborah was until I wikied her and realised that she was the last surviving one of the Mitford sisters, as in Love in a Cold Climate and various social scandels.

Bob Crewe - one of the Four Seasons - 11th September 2014
Wrote or produced:

1957: "Silhouettes", #3.
1957: "Daddy Cool", #10.
1958: "La Dee Dah", #9.
1959: "Lucky Ladybug", #14.
1962: "Sherry", #1
1962: "Big Girls Don't Cry", #1
1963: "Walk Like a Man, #1
1964: "Dawn (Go Away)", #3
1964: "Ronnie", #6
1964: "Navy Blue", #6
1964: "Rag Doll, #1
1964: "Save It For Me", #10
1964: "Big Man in Town", #20
1965: "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)", #12 ("Bye Bye Baby" on initial release)
1965: "Let's Hang On!", #3
1965: "A Lover's Concerto," #2
1965: "Silhouettes," #5 [Herman's Hermits cover]
1965: "Girl Come Running," #30
1965: "Jenny Take A Ride," #10
1966: "Devil With A Blue Dress On," #4
1966: "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine," #13
1967: "Sock It To Me, Baby," #6
1967: "Music To Watch Girls By," #15
1967: "Silence Is Golden," #11 [Tremeloes cover]
1967: "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You," #2
1967: "I Make a Fool of Myself," #18
1967: "To Give (The Reason I Live)," #29
1969: "Jean," #2
1969: "Good Morning, Starshine," #6
1974: "Lady Marmalade", #1
1974: "Get Dancin'," #10
1975: "Swearin' To God", #6
1975: "My Eyes Adored You," #1
1975: "I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo," #23
1975: "The Proud One," #22 [The Osmonds cover]
2001: "Lady Marmalade", #1 [Christina Aguilera cover]

Singer and songwriter Lynsey de Paul has died today at the age of 64, following a suspected brain haemorrhage.

I think she may be the first departed celeb on this list that I've actually met - she really was tiny!

When you see famous people then they nearly always look smaller than you expect. Then, on the very rare occasions that I've actually met someone famous, they nearly always turn out to be quite a bit taller than I am, which is a bit depressing. I'm not THAT small.

Rob Skipper, guitarist for the Holloways.

Geoffrey Holder, played the villian in Live and Let Die.

Jan Hooks, did the voice of Apu's wife Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon in the Simpsons, as well as other things.

Mark Bell, from LFO. That's a bit sad news.

Very sad news indeed Silent Rob. Saw him on stage with Bjork when she played the Corn Exchange.

RIP, Mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAxwvtBKqI

Bleep all night long!

Style Scott - legendary reggae drummer - murdered it seems.

Michael Hayes, directed lots of Dr Who serials, including the greatest Dr Who story ever made - City of Death.

Lynda Bellingham. Oxo lady, then was in 14 episodes of Doctor Who in 1986.

Raphael Ravenscroft, played the Saxaphone Solo on Baker Street (no, it wasn't Bob Holness).

Did lots of stuff with Pink Floyd so there's a local connection (ish).

Alvin Stardust.

Jack Bruce.

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison on Saturday morning. She had been convicted of killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.

And why do we have two Celebrity Death Culls?
One would suffice. Cancel one!!!

Mehdi Hassan - "freedom" fighter - in Syria - died for what he believed in.

And why do we have two Celebrity Death Culls?
One would suffice. Cancel one!!!

There's a long story behind the two celebrity death cull threads. I'm quite impressed that both myself and Bigmal have been stubborn enough to keep our threads going for nearly a whole year. Since we've kept both of our threads going for nearly a year, am I hell going to cancel mine now!

Come December I'll let Bigmal create the sole 2015 thread, should he want to.

Porky Bennett. Also known by his nickname "Paul," cyclist Porky was a time trial specialist who, having set records early in his career, returned to racing after beating alcoholism and didn't let the fact that he was six stone overweight stand in the way of being even faster than ever. He continued racing up until a couple of years ago, until cancer halted his cycling. Died a couple of weeks back, aged 75.

I totally agree Steven, this thread is nothing but a pretender and should be shelved.
Do you hear the voice of the people SR.

Hmmm, my thread has 268 replies, yours only has 111. "The people" have clearly decided which is the one to go for. *sticks out tongue*

Jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk, who personified the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and 60s, dies after lengthy illness, aged 85

Warren Clarke. Appeared as Dim in Clockwork Orange. Has spent 40 years appearing in Minder, Bergerac, Wish Me Luck and all sorts of British TV - so I'm a little mystified how on earth he never managed to appear in Dr Who.

Mike Burney, played saxophone in Wizzard. I wonder how long it took him to get sick of hearing his playing every single year on I wish it could be Christmas everyday?

Glen Larson, created and produced a lot of slightly naff 1970's and 80's TV series' including Battlestar Gallactica, Knight Rider, Manimal and Magnum PI.

Jeff Fletcher, guitarist from Northern Uproar, decapitated in road accident. Ouch.

Goodness me, Northern Uproar's website is extremely nostalgic, hot for the heady days of 1996. http://www.n-uproar.u-net.com/

P. D. James

Francis Fraser

Phil Hughes, of vertebral arterial dissection. Bizzarely, I had carotid arterial dissection one week shy of a year ago.

Ian McLagan, keyboard player from the Small Faces.

Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst (so Twitter tells me)
http://warp.net/records/gravenhurst/nick-talbot/

I think they appeared on 'Dead Mans Shoes' an excellent revenge film, but then most revenge films are. People suck!

*paging Silent Rob*
come on, someone I've never heard of must have died recently

FrankandLouie, the worlds longest lived two headed cat died last week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_and_Louie

Other than that, it's been oddly quiet lately.

This usually means that some major A list celebrity is going to surprise us. Bono or The Pope or Johnny Depp someone like that.

Ken Weatherwax, played Pugsley in the orginal Addams Family.

Tom Adams. Appeared in a lot of Hammer Horror films and had a lead role in Warriors of the Deep, an especially shite Dr Who story in 1984.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30484529

Angalifu, one of only six Northern White Rhinos in the entire world.

These things always seem much sadder than when so and so, who was in an episode of Crossroads in 1986 and had a fleeting appearence in Trial of a Timelord in 1989 leaves us. :(

Billie Whitelaw, nanny in the Omen. Didn't know that she worked heavily with Samuel Beckett until today.

Joe Cocker.

Backdated to the 12th of May, because I only recently found out: Billie Fleming. In 1938, Billie set a record for the furthest distance cycled by a woman in a year, at 47,642.5km. It still stands.

Wrong thread Techno, your on the list.

Joseph Sargent, Directed The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (good) and Jaws: 4 (laughable).

It will soon be time to move to BB's 2015 thread. Only a few more days to go Bigmal.

I see the Christmas deaths have started to come in.

Jeremy Lloyd, wrote an awful lot of not terribly good sitcom scripts, including 85 epsiodes of Allo Allo.

^^^^^It will soon be time to move to BB's 2015 thread.

Fuck that, the new death thread starts in 2015 matey.

however much I think this type of thread is pointless at least everyone on it is dead, so in some perverted way it could be described as educational and informative unlike the other wannabe fantasy thread littered with living breathing happy a to z list celebrities [/rant]

^^^ Jesus, someone's got a finger up their arse...

Christine Cavanaugh, did voice for Chuckie in Rugrats and voiced Babe the pig in the film.

Richard Graydon - stuntman in Bond and Hollywood movies. (Wrong thread?)

Right thread, though only until the end of today.

How do you guys get up so early?

I'm always up early foolscap. Did nothing last night so I went to bed at 12.01 and I've been up for an hour. :)