RIP thread for people involved in TV

JP Liz V1

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Cherry Valentine dies aged 28

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0923/1325065-wolf-hall-writer-hilary-mantel-has-died-aged-70/

Hillary Mantel, writer of The Wolf Hall series of books, has died aged 70.

She also popped up in documentaries and discussion of history.

She also had her portrait painted in Portrait Artist of the Year.

bobbyss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119655041#Comment_119655041

How sad. I was just looking up some of her interviews and started Wolf Hall.

RIP.

harr

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63019250

Louise Fletcher: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's Nurse Ratched dies aged 88

RabbleRouser2k

https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/zack-estrin-dead-prison-break-lost-in-space-writer-1235383347/?fbclid=IwAR0lHYybbEjcE5q2EQV_V1nN5syZ03sbRsfhAiMF1bgZ0AtjndldGRTTJgA#recipient_hashed=3330393b7df84660814171b0de402fcddafac6f7a128d1094d7702df810f9cfc&recipient_salt=142968089a7702e6555459ba9507590735771601f811d77d4af59294ddcd1a59

He was a producer and Showrunner on Prison Break, and the recent reboot of Lost in Space.

Apparently suffered a heart attack whilst out jogging. He was 51.

RabbleRouser2k

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dale-mcraven-dead-perfect-strangers-mork-and-mindy-1235383251/

Dale McRaven, creator of TV shows including Mork and Mindy and Perfect Strangers, has died, aged 83.

He apparently retired from the Entertainment industry in 1993. Dedicated himself to photography for the rest of his days.

RabbleRouser2k

Robert Cormier, who played Winston in American Gods, has died aged 33. He'd apparently suffered injuries in a fall.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/us-gossip/robert-cormier-dead-heartland-actor-28098752

Be right back

Coolio has passed away in LA aged 59. A friend found him dead at home.

corks finest

She was a devil in that

obi604

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119678775#Comment_119678775

Who?

corks finest

Nurse Ratchett

The Black Oil

Angela Lansbury has sadly died, aged 96. RIP. Certainly left her mark.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1579919097260740608

TheValeyard

I used to love that show. And the jokes that she was secretly a mass serial killer.

She certainly left her mark on TV. Think Murder She Wrote was over 10-12 years?

Murder She Wrote and Columbo were my introduction to murder mystery shows. Great stuff indeed.

RIP Angela Lansbury

dublinman1990

I just read about Angela Lansbury's passing from the BBC tonight. She was a formidable legend of stage and screen in her day. My late granny used to love her while watching Murder She Wrote back in the day. She really brought the character of Jessica Fletcher to life. I would say that every person who had watched that show over the years wanted to be like her while investigating all of these murders that occurred within the show.

May she Rest in Peace.

Tom Mann Centuria

Very sad, I used to love Murder She Wrote, ironically honestly! She always said she was a Socialist too, which was a plus in my book and one of those people you'd struggle to find anyone in the press who had a bad word to say about her. I loved her ott character in Death on the Nile too. RIP.

lordleitrim

RIP Angela Landsbury. I saw her perform the lead role in Driving Miss Daisy on stage in a theatre in Brisbane in 2013 alongside James Earl Jones. She was almost 88 then and was word perfect even though it was just the two of them on stage for 2 hours! .She did that night after night as part of the tour of that play. An amazing achievement at such a late age in life.

freshpopcorn

My mother use always say you wouldn't want to have Jessica over for the dinner!

RIP Angela Landsbury.

RabbleRouser2k

Murder she Wrote would have gone on for longer, but for some idiotic TV executive deciding to move it from it's safe Sunday night slot, to a weekday slot that left it competing with the TV Behemoth that was F.R.I.E.N.D.S. So many shows went up against that show, and none of them survived.

Murder She Wrote was another casualty. (By all accounts, she told them it was a terrible idea to move it).

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119732420#Comment_119732420

Yep, I agree… She just came across as one of life’s good people…

would have liked her and Hitchcock to get together and do something, think there might have been magic in that combo.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119732854#Comment_119732854

I think also the producers didn't need it to go on any longer, they had enough shows produced to make a fortune in re-run \ syndication rights.

The last episode was their dig back, titled "Death by Demographics".

There were 4 once off specials after that.

The Black Oil

Class.

https://twitter.com/sharpegirl/status/1579961837348880390

odyssey06

So that's how she built her conspiracy... the witnesses were in on it for the union points...

Radio5

She certainly was from a golden age where actors could act, sing, dance and do comedy and take it all in their stride. RIP Angela Lansbury.

freshpopcorn

I don't know if this is true now but there was people sharing stories about getting lost as children recently on RedFm.

One lad was in Roches Stores getting stuff for his Communion and he got lost. He tried to find his mother and all he could find was Angela Lamdsbury. He went up to her for help and he says she gave him £20.

PS. The same guys who built our house were doing work for Angela at time.

sligeach

Just heard the sad news about Angela Lansbury. As it happens I was reading up about her on Monday. I read an article from Ireland's Own where she talked about being proud of her Irish citizenship. And other things like how moving with her husband and kids to Ireland from LA was the best thing she ever did. Her kids had become involved with drugs and even Charles Manson gets a mention. She still has a home in Cork. She has Irish blood as well on her mother's side, I think it was her grandmother that was from Belfast.

Here's the article:

https://www.irelandsown.ie/from-our-archives-angela-lansbury-at-home-in-cork/

I often watch episodes of Murder, She Wrote on TG4. Reminds me of being a very young child. Farewell to a classy lady, she had a very long career. She really was from a time gone by. RIP.

extra gravy

Have great memories of watching Murder She Wrote as a child with my grandmother. Think it's where my love of crime drama all started. The stories people are telling about her now confirm what an absolute lady she was as well as a gifted performer. RIP JB Fletcher.

poppers

breaking on sky news that Robbie Coltrane just died

PropJoe10

RIP Robbie Coltrane. Sad news 😪

Tauriel

That's sad news about Robbie Coltrane. He was superb as Hagrid 😢

TomSweeney

RIP Robbie Coltrane

Used to love Cracker as a kid ...

JP Liz V1

RIP Robbie and Angela

Sweet Talkin Romeo

RIP

was only watching Cracker there last night :( great show

castletownman

He was gas as one of Daphne's mad brothers in Frasier too. RIP

elperello

Great memory RIP Robbie.

dublinman1990

I've just read about Robbie Coltrane's passing via the Guardian app this evening. What a fine actor he was for his time. My first time that I ever saw him was in Cracker as a kid in the 90's. Although I barely remembered him appearing in Frasier when I watched it on Channel 4 all those years ago. I think he was in one episode when he was playing one of Daphne's brothers.

RIP Robbie. 😔

Skyknight

He was also the ground handler in Flash Gordon (which was his third movie job) and Rhun in Krull (1983) RIP Robbie

StrawbsM

My first ever job was working as a cashier in a supermarket. Robbie Coltrane was a regular customer and was always very nice. He is my “have you ever met someone famous?” person.

Rest in peace, Robbie Coltrane x

Edit: I’m gonna watch some old comic strip presents tonight (if I can find them online).

Posy

RIP Robbie Coltrane. ☹️ I loved him and Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run.

The White Wolf

Cracker is what introduced me to the man when I was kid, Hagrid is how I knew him after that. Those 2 roles though don't do enough to define the man as an actor. So many fantastic roles up to very recent, one being a Jimmy Savile type.

Very sad, he seemed quite emotional in the HP special on HBO saying how he wouldn't be here for the next special, but didn't realise his illness was that imminent. RIP

maik3n

Such a fantastic character actor. RIP Robbie

Infamous Cracker episode with the great Robert Carlyle

https://twitter.com/stevieblock102/status/1506023502247337985

ArmaniJeanss

Nice turn in Goldeneye as one of Pierce's contacts and reprised it in World is Not Enough. Played 'shady arms dealer who helps Bond but you know he'd sell him out if the price was right' to perfection.

Also on Channel 4 first night in 198x in the Comic Strip/Famous Five pastiche.

RIP.

Welsh Megaman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119745641#Comment_119745641

Behind the scenes...

Melodeon

Even though he made several appearances in The Young Ones, I have no recollection of him in that at all, even though that show was essential viewing at the time.

I first became aware of him in Tutti Frutti and Blackadder, where he was wonderful, of course.

RIP Robbie.

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119747279#Comment_119747279

He appeared a few times, in Young Ones. These are just a few of his appearances.

Him as a pirate cyclops.

And as Slobber the bouncer in the episode 'Oil'.

Funny seeing him play a Cyclops, because he acted alongside one in Krull. Tho his voice was dubbed, as was Liam Neeson's.

bodhrandude

Sad news, RIP. How did he die? He's not the sort of person to kick the bucket so soon. Just reading some of the obituaries to him and it doesn't seem to be disclosed what caused his death.

TomSweeney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119745641#Comment_119745641

Oh wow Forgot about this gem!!!

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119748138#Comment_119748138

By all accounts wasn't in good health the last few years. Osteoarthritis, which he'd had issues with for the last few years. Unfortunately, that can create more problems-lack of mobility means that your overall health is impacted alongside it.

And he was no longer mobile, he was pretty much confined to a wheelchair. Any number of things could have taken him after that.

corks finest

Cracker was just that a cracker- he was brilliant

lordleitrim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119748138#Comment_119748138

In fairness, he was carrying a good bit of weight and for someone in their 70s, thats not especially ideal from a health perspective. I saw him on Netflix recently in a drama about an accused celebrity abuser (National Treasure) and he looked very unhealthy and overweight.

A great actor. I first saw him in the cinema in Nuns On The Run. I always enjoyed the grittiness of Cracker too. I've never seen Harry Potter movies so that era passed me by. RIP

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119755575#Comment_119755575

By all accounts, during filming, he was in incredible amounts of pain. He used it for the role, but he had knee surgery shortly thereafter (apparently he had he had no cartilage in his knee).

He had only really two Gawdawful performances on his CV, so to speak. Gooby, and On the Nose, costarring Dan Ackroyd, Simon Delaney and Brenda Blethyn. It's a movie with horrific Irish accents. And real Irish people.

I heard Delaney (who's put on some notably gawdawful accents himself) discussing how he had to 'bitehis tongue' when he heard the terrible accents attempted in the film. Didn't mention the actor, but I'd say it was definitely Robbie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ei8kqPkm7I