In Memoriam: Celebrities

[omahanime]

Steve Priest
Stephen Norman Priest was a British musician who was the bassist of the glam rock band The Sweet.

 

[prog rocker]

Steve Priest
Stephen Norman Priest was a British musician who was the bassist of the glam rock band The Sweet.

Not another one...

 

[RileyXY1]

COVID-19 also killed Chris Trousdale, one of the members of the boy band Dream Street.

 

[omahanime]

Bonnie Pointer
American Singer
Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer was an American singer, most notable for being a member of the vocal group, The Pointer Sisters. Pointer scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointers in 1977, including a disco cover of The Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which became a U.S. top 20 pop hit on September 1, 1979.

 

[omahanime]

Legendary comics writer Denny O’Neil passed away last night at age 81. He had been in ill health for some time.

 

[omahanime]

Ian Holm
Actor
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE, known as Ian Holm, was an English actor on stage and in film. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He won the 1981 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award.
The Fifth Element - Father Vito Cornelius
Bilbo Baggins

 

[prog rocker]

Spanish singer Juan Manuel Serrat died from Covid.

 

[Insanish Danish]

Oof I just saw the post about Chris Trousdale I was pretty big on Dream Street for a while when I was a kid.

 

[Emmy]

Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020).

For those that don't know, she was a legendary singer-songwriter often dubbed "The Forces' Sweetheart" because of her concerts for the troops during WWII. Everyone and their mother in my country will recognise her singing "We'll Meet Again" even if they don't know exactly who she is.

 

[omahanime]

Joel Schumacher
Director
Joel T. Schumacher is an American filmmaker. Schumacher rose to fame after directing three hit films: St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, and Flatliners. He later went on to direct the John Grisham adaptations The Client and A Time to Kill. His films Falling Down and 8mm competed for Palme d'Or and Golden Bear, respectively.

 

[omahanime]

Joe Sinnott
Artist
Joe Sinnott was an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, from 1965 to 1981, initially over the pencils of Jack Kirby. During his 60 years as a Marvel freelancer and then salaried artist working from home, Sinnott inked virtually every major title, with notable runs on The Avengers, The Defenders and Thor.

 

[omahanime]

Kelly Asbury
Film Director
Kelly Adam Asbury was an American animated film director, screenwriter, voice actor, published children's book author/illustrator, and non-fiction author. He was best known for directing animated films, including Shrek 2 and Gnomeo & Juliet.

 

[omahanime]

Carl Reiner
American Comedian
Carl Reiner was an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and publisher whose career spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar's Hour and Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar. During the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the creator, producer, and writer of, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

 

[omahanime]

Hugh Downs
Broadcaster
Hugh Malcolm Downs was an American radio and television broadcaster, announcer, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. A regular television presence from the mid-1940s until the late 1990s, he had several successful roles on morning television, prime-time television, and late-night television. For several years, he held the certified Guinness World Record for the most hours on commercial network television, before being surpassed by Regis Philbin

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

The world's oldest cat died yesterday at 31 years old... If that counts...

 

[omahanime]

Charlie Daniels
American Singer
Charles Edward Daniels was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his contributions to Southern rock, country, and bluegrass music. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Daniels was active as a singer and musician since the 1950s. He was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002, the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

 

[Juliko]

Ennio Morricone
Italian classical composer
Ennio Morricone was famous for making movie scores. He composed the soundtracks for more than 500 movies and television programs. He is well known for composing the scores to Western movies, particularly Spaghetti Westerns. In 2007 he received the Honorary Academy Award for his many great movie scores. In his career, the composer sold over 50 million records worldwide. In 2016, he won an Academy Award for his work on The Hateful Eight.

 

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Australian snowboarder and Winter Olympian Alex Pullin (who competed in Vancouver, Sochi and Pyeongchang in 2010, 2014 and 2018 respectively and flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony in Sochi) drowned while spearfishing, aged 32

 

[omahanime]

The world's oldest ever cat died yesterday at 31 years old... If that counts...

It was oldest Living cat. Creme Puff (cat) - Wikipedia

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

It was oldest Living cat. Creme Puff (cat) - Wikipedia

Oh... Thanks for the correction. I got kinda confused!