In Memoriam: Celebrities

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Gregg Allman
American Musician
Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. He was born and spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to Daytona Beach, Florida. He and his brother, Duane Allman, developed an interest in music in their teens, and began performing in the Allman Joys in the mid-1960s. In 1967, they relocated to Los Angeles and were renamed the Hour Glass, releasing two albums for Liberty Records. In 1969, he and Duane regrouped to form the Allman Brothers Band, which settled in Macon, Georgia.

 

[King Robert]

Peter Sallis, voice of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit, passed away at age 96.

 

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Peter Sallis, voice of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit, passed away at age 96.

Peter Sallis
English Actor
Peter Sallis, OBE was an English actor, known for his work on British television. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-honored Wallace and Gromit films. Although he was born and brought up in Middlesex, his two best remembered roles required him to adopt the accent and mannerisms of a Northerner. In addition to voicing Wallace, he played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until its final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes. He also voiced Rat in The Wind in the Willows.

 

[Ryoma Maser]

At age 88, Adam West one of the most iconic Batmen in history has passed away today.

Adam West, Star of Iconic Batman TV Show, Dies at 88

 

[indigohex]

Two actors passed away, first Adam West died following a short battle with leukemia at the age of 88 (Vale: Adam West). US actress Glene Headly has also died at the age of 62 (Vale: Glenne Headly).

 

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At age 88, Adam West one of the most iconic Batmen in history has passed away today.

Adam West, Star of Iconic Batman TV Show, Dies at 88

A part of me died learning about that. =( May he rest in peace.

 

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Stephen Furst
American Actor
Stephen Furst was an American actor and film and television director. Furst was a regular in the science fiction series Babylon 5 playing Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Cotto and as Dr. Elliot Axelrod on St. Elsewhere. He was also featured, before appearing in either of those roles, as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the film National Lampoon's Animal House and its spin-off series, Delta House.

 

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Michael Nyqvist
Actor
Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck films made in 1997. He was most recognized internationally for his role in the acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist, as well as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and John Wick.

 

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Michael Bond
Author
Thomas Michael Bond, CBE was an English author, best known for writing the Paddington Bear series featuring the eponymous character. More than 35 million Paddington books have sold around the world and the characters have also featured in film and on television. His first book was published in 1958, and his last in 2017, a span of 59 years. Bond was made a CBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours.

 

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R.I.P. Michael Jackson

The king of pop has died, but he will never be forgotten

 

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Martin Landau
Actor
Martin Landau was an American film and television actor. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. He played regular roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999.

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

The lead singer of Linkin Park committed suicide earlier today.

 

[dragon_nataku]

I've been a fan of Linkin Park since 2001. Usually these sorts of things don't bother me but for some reason this one does.

Rest in peace, Chester. May your next life be less stressful and painful than this one.

 

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John Heard
Actor
John Matthew Heard Jr. was an American film and television actor. He had lead roles in several films, including Chilly Scenes of Winter, Heart Beat, Cutter's Way, Cat People, and C.H.U.D., as well as supporting roles in After Hours, Big, Beaches, Awakenings, Rambling Rose, The Pelican Brief, My Fellow Americans, Snake Eyes, and Animal Factory. He also played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, as well as appearing in Sharknado. Heard was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest starring on The Sopranos.

 

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Deborah Watling, who played Victoria Waterfield in Doctor Who (when Patrick Troughton was the Second Doctor) has died at the age of 69 after a short battle with cancer (Vale: Deborah Watling)

 

[King Robert]

June Foray, better known as Rocky and Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, passed away yesterday at the age of 99.

 

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Hungarian-Australian football commentator Les Murray has died at the age of 71 after a long illness (Vale: Les Murray). He joined SBS in 1980 (when SBS was launched) as a subtitler for Hungarian programmes on SBS and remained there until 2014 and worked part-time there from 2014 until his death. Apart from hosting the FIFA World Cup for SBS until 2014, he also hosted the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games for SBS as well as Toyota World Sports and The World Game on SBS. I remember the raw emotion in which he and long-time broadcasting partner the late Jonnie Warren showed after the Socceroos missed out on qualifying for the 1998 FIFA World Cup (losing the AFC-OFC play-off to Iran in 1997, and they were literally crying), to the jubilation in 2005 after the Socceroos qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup after beating Uruguay in the OFC-COMEBOL playoff in 2005, qualifying for the first FIFA World Cup in 32 years.

 

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Sam Shepard
Playwright
Samuel Shepard Rogers III, known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director. His body of work spanned over half a century. He was the author of 44 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."

 

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Robert Hardy
English Actor
Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA was an English actor who enjoyed a long career in the theatre, film and television. Hardy was born in Cheltenham in 1925 to Jocelyn and Henry Harrison Hardy, the headmaster of Cheltenham College. He was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford University, where his studies were interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force, after which he returned to gain a BA in English. On BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he described the degree he obtained as "shabby", although he treasured the time spent studying under C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Hardy was perhaps best known for his role as the veterinarian Siegfried Harnon on the British TV series All Creatures Great and Small and for playing Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, in multiple Harry Potter films.

 

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   Glen Campbell
   Singer
   Glen Travis Campbell was an American singer, songwriter, musician, television host, and actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television, from January 1969 through June 1972.