Mine Field Celebrity Deathday Thread

[Mirah]

Copying Eggs. For those times you don't feel like starting a whole new thread.

Farewell Emma Chambers

Who was only 53
I watched her in the Vicor of Dibly when I was up in the mountains. She was also in Notting Hill, which I don't believe I have ever seen.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Noooo really? She was so sweet in Notting Hill.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Nanette Fabray, 97. TV fans knew her as Ann's mother on One Day At A Time, but she was in countless TV shows, movies and Broadway shows as well for the better part of a century. She was even older than Betty White!

 

[Mirah]

Wow, the Over the Rainbow made me tear up! So Beautiful.

 

[CaptainWacky]

David Ogden Stiers, who managed to make a Lwaxana episode of TNG watchable (and was in MASH): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/04/david-ogden-stiers-actor-mash-dies-75

Sir Roger Bannister, first man to run a mile in under four minutes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43273249

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

RIP Charles Emerson Winchester III.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio (he used to be on tv a lot): https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I hadn’t heard of any of these deaths except for Trevor Baylis, who I thought had been on tv quite recently, but I guess it was recorded since he had been ill for a long while.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Robert Scheerer, director of several key TNG-era episodes, at 89.

TNG: Inheritance, Chain of Command: Part I, True Q, The Outcast, New Ground, Legacy, Tin Man, The Defector, The Price, Peak Performance, The Measure of a Man
DS9: Shadowplay
VOY: Rise, State of Flux

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770474/

http://deadline.com/2018/03/directo...ve-musical-tv-specials-dies-at-89-1202335612/

 

[CaptainWacky]

Ken Dodd, legendary British comedian: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267

 

[CaptainWacky]

Jim Bowen, host of tv's Bullseye (speedboat!), part of anyone in my age range's childhood, and on the "wait, didn't he die a few years ago?" list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43403178

 

[Mirah]

RIP
Art Bell
Coast to Coast Radio Host. Correction: He was featured on Coast to Coast-hosted by George Noory. Or maybe they both hosted it. I don't fucking know.

I used to listen to him on my commute home.

 

[Loktar]

RIP Barbara Bush, 92.

 

[Dr Dave]

RIP
Art Bell
Coast to Coast Radio Host. Correction: He was featured on Coast to Coast-hosted by George Noory. Or maybe they both hosted it. I don't fucking know.

I used to listen to him on my commute home.

Art Bell was the original host.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Also the loud sergeant guy in Full Metal Jacket. RIP MAGGOT!

R. Lee Ermey, actor in 'Full Metal Jacket,' dies at 74



(Don't watch the last 2 minutes if you don't want spoilers or splattered brains)

 

[The Question]

Harry Anderson, best known for character Judge Harold T. Stone of Night Court and a fictionalized version of writer Dave Barry from Dave's World.
October 14, 1952 - April 16, 2018
RIP

 

[CaptainWacky]

Bruno Sammartino, who held the WWF title for a total of 12 years in the sixties and seventies: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/bruno-sammartino-passes-away-82-256021

 

[CaptainWacky]

Dale Winton, Britsh game show host, probably subject of many posts by me, Gagh and Menty here in the MF: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...winton-tv-presenter-and-radio-dj-dies-aged-62

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Cleanup on Aisle 3! RIP.

 

[Gagh]

21st April 2018
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