Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

DaveSchmidt said:

Fred Willard, 86. A favorite starting with Fernwood 2Night and running all the way through this final season of Modern Family.

 Oh no, we were just talking about Spinal Tap and all the Christopher Guest Mockumentaries, on the Movie thread. A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, For Your Consideration and Best in Show. He brought us so much laughter.

Losing him right after losing Jerry Stiller is sad at a time when the world needs to laugh more than ever.


Bad week. Stiller and Willard.

RIP guys.


Bunch of Fred Willard clips in this Michael McKean twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/MJMcKean/status/1261739524415053825

I still remember first watching Fernwood 2 Night, and totally not getting Willard. Took me a while to understand and then I became a great fan.


STANV said:

 The character passed away in that episode.

 Spoilers dude. I deliberately didn't mention that.


Phyllis George, Miss America, First Lady of Kentucky and the NFL Today pioneer who got this great response out of Roger Staubach.

https://twitter.com/andrewperloff/status/1133755726957076480?lang=en


Andre Harrell, founder of Uptown Records and overall legend in the rap/hip hop world.  Credited with discovering Sean Combs (P Diddy).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/arts/music/andre-harrell-dead.html


Ken Osmond, who played my first TV crush, Eddie Haskell.


Jerry Sloan, NBA great.

In the early ’70s, when I enjoyed watching the national NBA telecasts on weekends, the Bulls stood out for me more than any other team: Bob Love, Norm Van Lier, Chet Walker, Tom Boerwinkle, Bob Weiss, Ken Reeves. And Jerry Sloan.


For a dear friend, 
I wrote your name

I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
So I wrote your name in my heart,
and that’s where it will stay, always

Anon.


DaveSchmidt said:

Jerry Sloan, NBA great.

In the early ’70s, when I enjoyed watching the national NBA telecasts on weekends, the Bulls stood out for me more than any other team: Bob Love, Norm Van Lier, Chet Walker, Tom Boerwinkle, Bob Weiss, Ken Reeves. And Jerry Sloan.

 Then Ken Reeves busted his knee and ended up coaching high school in L.A.


drummerboy said:

Bad week. Stiller and Willard.

RIP guys.

 NBC showed an SNL episode from 1978 last night with Willard as the co-host.  I had no idea he did such a mean Elvis impersonation.  He could sing.

And I will always remember his small but outstanding role in Spinal Tap, or should I say Spinal Tarp.


Jimmy Cobb. Drummer on Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” album and one of the last of that great jazz generation. 91.


Richard Herd - veteran actor. 

Star Trek, Seinfield, Get Out, All the President's Men, etc.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/entertainment/richard-herd-obit/index.html


Steve Priest, from The Sweet,



For some of us of a certain age bracket, this will be very sad news:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-53026822  
i think we’ll all be humming soft ballads for the weekend LOL


Denny O'Neil, comic-book legend,


Definitely the ending of an era: Dame Vera Lynn, at 103 years of age.

What a marvellous icon of resilience and charm

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53091856


And I’ve just noticed this sad news, too: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, the very talented writer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53107010


I love this quote from Kenneth Branagh: 

“I’d heard the Ian Holm School of Acting described as follows: ‘Anything you can do, I can do less of.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/obituaries/ian-holm-dead.html


Still waiting for Louis Prima to show up.


Oh, he died long before this thread was created.


I missed this one last November: Gary Rhodes, a personal hero of mine.


DaveSchmidt said:

Oh, he died long before this thread was created.

 Before Al Gore even invented the internet.


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