RIP thread for people involved in TV

RabbleRouser2k · 31-10-2020 2:26pm

Tork wrote: »

At 90, it's no shock but it's sad all the same. He retired relatively young as actors go - I see the last film he made was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen back in 2003.

His last few films were rather... not good. (His last film was Sir Billi in 2012).

The whole production of LoEG was a nightmare, apparently (Sets getting flooded, no extension on the filming deadline, etc etc). Connery wasn't in the best of form, physically. Much of his movements, such as running, were done by a double, because he was starting to have issues with his knees.

Welsh Megaman · 31-10-2020 5:16pm

He has fantastic as Indiana Jones’s Dad too.

RIP

corkie · 31-10-2020 6:13pm

Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez

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RabbleRouser2k · 01-11-2020 3:51am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

He has fantastic as Indiana Jones’s Dad too.

RIP

Ad-libbed quite a few lines in that film too. When he said 'she talks in her sleep' during the scene where he's tied to the chair with Harrison Ford, Connery adlibbed that. The crew cracked up laughing, and Spielberg said 'well that's it, that line's in the film'.

In Finding Forrester, he adlibbed another line, one of the first he says, when we meet his character. It was to imply the character was gay, that his 'closeted lifestyle' had a dual meaning.

Connery was a smarter actor than people gave him credit for.

GerardKeating · 01-11-2020 1:42pm

zorro2566 wrote: »

First and best Bond! R.I.P.

First movie James Bond, Barry Nelson played him for american TV version of Casino Royale in 1954

JP Liz V1 · 01-11-2020 9:36pm

Nikki McKibbin, the third place singer from American Idol's first season, has died

Sir Oxman · 02-11-2020 12:07am

On 30 October 2020, Robert Fisk died aged 74 in St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin after suffering a suspected stroke.
RIP

https://twitter.com/fotoole/status/1323008775545126914?s=20

JP Liz V1 · 02-11-2020 12:45am

TV actor Eddie Hassell was killed in a shooting in Texas early Sunday he was 30.
TMZ reports that Hassell was shot during what appeared to be an attempted carjacking.

peteeeed · 03-11-2020 2:40pm

John sessions has died , excellent comedy actor aged 67

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-sessions-death-age-cause-news-b1558964.html

Sir Oxman · 03-11-2020 2:41pm

peteeeed wrote: »

John sessions has died , excellent comedy actor aged 67

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-sessions-death-age-cause-news-b1558964.html

Ah no.
Fine actor

RIP

odyssey06 · 03-11-2020 2:42pm

peteeeed wrote: »

John sessions has died , excellent comedy actor aged 67
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-sessions-death-age-cause-news-b1558964.html

I only recently listened to his delightful "Six Degrees of John Sessions" on BBC radio. A wonderful expressive voice.

Such a varied career. He did voice work on Spitting Image, and appeared in major film productions such as The Bounty, Gangs of New York.
RIP John.

serfboard · 03-11-2020 3:50pm

peteeeed wrote: »

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-sessions-death-age-cause-news-b1558964.html

From that article:

The Independent wrote:

He was outed as gay by the Evening Standard in 1994 ...

He recalled to The Guardian in 2017: “I was asked [by a journalist] very robustly: ‘Are you gay?’ I said: ‘Yes I am, but my parents don’t know and I don’t want them to find out by picking up a copy of the Evening Standard.’ The journalist said she thought I should tell them and outed me. My mother died unexpectedly six weeks later and my father quickly developed dementia. It was never mentioned.”

What a despicable thing for that "journalist" to do.

Harry Palmr · 03-11-2020 4:02pm

Sessions was everywhere for about 12 years but he high water mark for me will always be Stella Street as Mrs Huggett and Al Pacino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syk7TUpX-ok

RabbleRouser2k · 03-11-2020 6:09pm

serfboard wrote: »

From that article:

What a despicable thing for that "journalist" to do.

Sadly, it was the 90s-the gossip rags were eager to out someone.

Stephen Gately came out of the closet precisely because he had no other choice-he either came out, or a journalist was going to out him.

Those rags didn't care. They still don't. John Wesley Shipp was 'outed' in some rag mag in the 90s.
He was starring in a high profile TV show (The Flash) and was pretty much on the up and up...
Soon as that article appeared, his career nosedived.

Funny thing is, he's not gay. (He keeps himself very private, was rumoured to be engaged a while back. Often photographed with girlfriends, but doesn't matter to folks.)
Similar thing happened with Vin Diesel-was rumoured to be gay for decades... round the time Paul Walker died (shortly before, I think) we learned Diesel was VERY private... down to having 3 children, and and a girlfriend.
But the rumours stifled his career for a long while.

peteeeed · 03-11-2020 8:04pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Sessions was everywhere for about 12 years but he high water mark for me will always be Stella Street as Mrs Huggett and Al Pacino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syk7TUpX-ok

A truely great show

JP Liz V1 · 03-11-2020 9:24pm

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Sadly, it was the 90s-the gossip rags were eager to out someone.

Stephen Gately came out of the closet precisely because he had no other choice-he either came out, or a journalist was going to out him.

Those rags didn't care. They still don't. John Wesley Shipp was 'outed' in some rag mag in the 90s.
He was starring in a high profile TV show (The Flash) and was pretty much on the up and up...
Soon as that article appeared, his career nosedived.

Funny thing is, he's not gay. (He keeps himself very private, was rumoured to be engaged a while back. Often photographed with girlfriends, but doesn't matter to folks.)
Similar thing happened with Vin Diesel-was rumoured to be gay for decades... round the time Paul Walker died (shortly before, I think) we learned Diesel was VERY private... down to having 3 children, and and a girlfriend.
But the rumours stifled his career for a long while.

Wasn't Vin Diesel and co star Michelle Rodriguez together at one time, I know she is bisexual

RabbleRouser2k · 03-11-2020 9:28pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Wasn't Vin Diesel and co star Michelle Rodriguez together at one time, I know she is bisexual

Yup, but didn't stop the rags...

Remember, Louis Walsh made up rumours that Gately was engaged to a woman (one of Walsh's acts he was managing) long before he came out.

Posy · 03-11-2020 10:56pm

peteeeed wrote: »

John sessions has died , excellent comedy actor aged 67

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-sessions-death-age-cause-news-b1558964.html

Just seen this on the news. And he was only in his 60's!

I used to love him on QI, he was so insufferable! :pac:

Arthur Daley · 06-11-2020 2:56pm

Geoffrey Palmer has died aged 93. Great innings, he was loads of stuff over the last 50 odd years.

Narrated grumpy old men. Doesn't seem so long ago.

Skid X · 06-11-2020 3:06pm

I loved Geoffrey Palmer's cameo as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig in the final episode of Blackadder

One of those actors who was in lots of thing and always nailed it. RIP.

3d4life · 06-11-2020 4:31pm

Skid X wrote: »

....One of those actors who was in lots of thing and always nailed it. RIP.....

+1 Wonderful actor

Few clips from over the decades :

Desert Island Discs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093612

dubstarr · 06-11-2020 4:41pm

Ah very sorry to hear about Geoffrey,loved him in As Time Goes By.

AndrewJRenko · 06-11-2020 5:22pm

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Geoffrey Palmer has died aged 93. Great innings, he was loads of stuff over the last 50 odd years.

Narrated grumpy old men. Doesn't seem so long ago.

First came to my attention as Jimmy, the mad right wing brother in law of Reggie Perrin, plotting his right wing coup, to sort out the pesky socialist in 1970s Britain.

[Jimmy is explaining to Reggie what kinds of people his secret army will be against]

Jimmy Anderson : Wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?

Reginald Perrin : You realise the sort of people you're going to attract, don't you, Jimmy? Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Paki-bashers, queer-bashers, Chink-bashers, anybody-bashers, rear Admirals, queer admirals, Vice Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo-loyalists, crypto-loyalists.

Jimmy Anderson : Do you think so? I thought recruitment might be difficult.