RIP thread for people involved in film

bnt

Composer Michel Legrand has died at 86: winner of three Oscars, for the scores for Summer of ‘42 and Yentl, and the song The Windmills Of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair. Legrand worked on over 200 movie nd TV soundtracks and numerous jazz albums as an accomplished pianist.

Zeek12

Such a timeless tune, The Windmills of your Mind.

It was covered by just about everybody, from Dusty Springfield to Petula Clark....to Sting.... and many more.

RIP.

ohnonotgmail

Zeek12 wrote: »

Such a timeless tune, The Windmills of your Mind.

It was covered by just about everybody, from Dusty Springfield to Petula Clark....to Sting.... and many more.

RIP.

the version that won the oscar was sung by noel harrison who is the son of Rex.

Skerries

Monster Squad’ and ‘Hellboy’ Makeup Artist Matt Rose Has Died

Cazale

Dick Miller of Gremlins and Terminator fame has died.

p to the e

Cazale wrote: »

Dick Miller of Gremlins and Terminator fame has died.

I would have lost money in a bet that he was still alive. Appeared in every Joe Dante movie if I remember correctly.

Harry Palmr

Ah no! As you say he was a Joe Dante favourite. One of the Corman stock company.

Ted Plain

Cazale wrote: »

Dick Miller of Gremlins and Terminator fame has died.

It ain't some foreign piece of crap you pick up these days. That's a Kentucky Harvester.


RIP, Mr. Futterman.

Tony EH

Clive Swift died on the 1st Feb.

Best known as Richard, the long suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket, Swift was also a veteran character actor on the big screen too, appearing in films like 'Excalibur' and 'A Passage to India'.

peteeeed

Julie Adams from ' the creature from the black lagoon ' has died age 92

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3544708/r-p-creature-black-lagoon-star-julie-adams-died/

Agent Coulson

Before anyone say he is more famous yes he is and those comments take over the thread again maybe a Mod can change the thread title once and for all.


Albert Finney passed away aged 82. RIP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47175304

Harry Palmr

Great actor and some dodgy screen choices - quite what he saw in Annie will remain a mystery!

If you look back over Finney's CV on film, it looks quite odd with a succession of gaps 2/3 years long and the spaces were not due to TV or stage work either. It's as if he really just wanted to make the films that appealed and nothing else even if it meant he could get forgotten in the meantime so he never became 'box office'. Two for the Road and A Man of No Importance are the ones I remember well plus more recently Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Mr Crispy

Child of the 80s that I am, Wolfen was my first time seeing Albert in anything. Still like that movie.

RobbingBandit

Hope he gets a turn out like the Big Fish funeral great actor. RIP

helimachoptor

Carmen Argenziano (jacob carter on stargate) and he was good The godfather 2 has died.

Duck Soup

Former Disney President & CEO Ron Miller has passed away. Son-in-law to Walt Disney, Miller was responsible for many projects including Tron, The Black Cauldron and The Rescuers, as well as the creation of Disney Channel and Touchstone Pictures.

Harry Palmr

Ron Miller (son in law of Walt Disney you say?!) was considered the Master of Disaster for a long time at Disney as the studio lost it's mojo and raked up huge losses on poorly conceived science-fiction and fantasy flicks which saw it open to hostile takeover. Luckily Touchstone ("we're not Disney, honest!") proved a big success and that kept the studio afloat as they went back to basics with high quality animation features like the Little Mermaid.

Ted Plain

The Swiss actor Bruno Ganz has died at age 77.

He was outstanding as Hitler in Downfall.

Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin) was anther great movie he starred in.

Ted Plain

Ted Plain wrote: »

The Swiss actor Bruno Ganz has died at age 77.

He was outstanding as Hitler in Downfall.

Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin) was anther great movie he starred in.

Himself and Frank Langella absolutely sparked in their brief scence togother, in Unknown. Average enough Liam Neeson vehicle but they absolutely nailed the tension with 90% of the communication being non-verbal.

Tony EH

Ted Plain wrote: »

The Swiss actor Bruno Ganz has died at age 77.

He was outstanding as Hitler in Downfall.

Ah pity. His was probably the finest interpretation of late war Adolf that I've seen.

Birneybau

R.I.P. to a wonderful actor, Bruno Ganz, and his beautiful performance in the below film. Hate to think that he'll mostly be remembered for Hitler memes.

TerrorFirmer

Birneybau wrote: »

Hate to think that he'll mostly be remembered for Hitler memes.

I think it's nice in a way. Downfall is an outstanding film and his performance is legendary but he'll also be remembered by millions that would've either never seen it, or have heard of him.

The viral nature of them as well probably gave a significant boost to the profile of Downfall.

batgoat

Recently saw him in The House That Jack Built and he was pretty great in that too. Particularly since Trier can be so mixed.

Zeek12

The American Friend was another of his great performances in a Wenders film.
Alongside Dennis Hopper.

RIP Bruno.

Der Himmel über Berlin. A film I watched more because, as a kid, I loved Columbo and heard Falk was in it. Absolutely stunning film full of atmosphere and feeling.

So the complete opposite of City of Angles remake travesty.

Edit: Wings of Desire is the name given in English but The Heaven over Berlin is better (and even better as the German title) IMHO

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Himself and Frank Langella absolutely sparked in their brief scence togother, in Unknown. Average enough Liam Neeson vehicle but they absolutely nailed the tension with 90% of the communication being non-verbal.

Too late to edit.

Here is the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XfeMTqE5Cs

peteeeed

Stanley Donen director and choreographer For Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with actor and dancer Gene Kelly and director of seven brides for seven brothers has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/23/stanley-donen-director-singin-in-the-rain-dies?

Harry Palmr

Forget all those classic musicals, watch Charade and it's little brother Arabesque. Both wonderfully enjoyable carefree spy thrillers of a kind that Hollywood simply has no idea how to make now.

p to the e

Morgan Woodward had regular enough work from the 50's onwards but he will be remembered mostly for his silent, rifle toting "man with no eyes" in Cool Hand Luke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Woodward

Zeek12

p to the e wrote: »

Morgan Woodward had regular enough work from the 50's onwards but he will be remembered mostly for his silent, rifle toting "man with no eyes" in Cool Hand Luke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Woodward

Cool Hand Luke is showing on TCM right now