2019 Obituary

[Stuart Galbraith]

Lee Iacocca goes to the great motor plant in the sky.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-7207595/Former-Chrysler-CEO-Lee-Iacocca-died-age-94.html

[Stargrunt6]

Do publications count?

 

MAD magazine is shutting down.

[Jeff]

Do publications count?

 

MAD magazine is shutting down.

Get woke, go broke.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Do publications count?

 

MAD magazine is shutting down.

Yes, I was sorry to hear that. Ive never read it, but even I have heard of Spy Vs Spy...

[Panzermann]

Rutger Hauer has died on the July 19th. Thanks bojan for reminding me with your music video post.

The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association announces with infinite sadness that after a very short illness, on Friday, July 19, 2019, Rutger passed away peacefully at his Dutch home.

He leaves his beloved wife Ineke, after they have been together for fifty years.

We at Starfish will always cherish the many unforgettable memories we have of Rutger and his dedication to the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association.

One of Rutger’s last wishes was that Starfish should continue its charity activity and its fight against the AIDS disease, and with Ineke’s precious help, involvement and direction we will follow Rutger’s wish and will do our best to carry on Rutger’s inestimable legacy.

http://rutgerhauer.org/

 

"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die." His improvised speech from Blade Runner. Although his candle burnt for quite some time longer than his role as Nexus 6 replicant.

[Stargrunt6]

Blind Fury needs more love.

[Panzermann]

Blind Fury needs more love.

 

True. As do Soldier of Orange, Blood of Heroes or Hobo with a Shotgun. And so many other films he played in. Sometimes real trash, others high artsy drama.

 

 

IMDB lists a handful of films wiht him to be released later this year. One is a chinese-russian production of a story by Gogol with charles Dance and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

[R011]

David Hedison best known for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and as Felix Leiter in two James Bond films died on the 18th. He was 92.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hedison#Personal_life

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/

[Stuart Galbraith]

He was a good Leiter. I actually thought he was in more Bond films than he was.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Farewell Roy Batty.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/rutger-hauer-dead-blade-runner-age-cause-movies-roy-batty-a9019491.html

[Mr King]

I loved this movie as a kid, have not watched it in a few decades.

 

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[bojan]

It is still quite good. Some 6-7 years ago some friends and I did "nostalgy cinematography" - movies we really liked as a teenagers, but did not watch them for at least 15 years.

Ladyhawke was one of the few that stood a test of time.

[shep854]

Doubled

Edited July 26, 2019 by shep854

[shep854]

Someone pointed out that Bladerunner was set in 2019, so Hauer died the same year as his character.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yeah thats right, ive got a vague memory of a date but I cant remember what it was. He would have appreciated the Irony perhaps.

 

There was a very nice tribute from Ridley Scott and Daryl Hannah.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blade-runners-daryl-hannah-ridley-193635289.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADigqEyVCWZjV7j4CI4VBmKOzuTjFlfLhuuk70lCUfownLdbwQkY9x5qx152wFH6HMx6rLaJi9lU9NH2EWHpqAcDpnmiRggAFsGpMDBXd00jro5kpbA0cEUIVuuWzQ5ZovrHiVMm6d0tQFDn5onLQUCRWxdc4OTPXAzPM9nTvlR-

[GregShaw]

Peter Fonda 79 yo

[DKTanker]

Peter Fonda 79 yo

Other than being a character in the cult movie Easy Rider, Fonda's greatest claim to fame was being the younger brother of Jane.

[R011]

I met him once when he was filming a B movie about truckers (Highballin') in the same building in which I worked. He seemed a nice enough guy.

[Stuart Galbraith]

I thought he was a rather better actor than Jane. There was nothing she did that really impressed me very much.

 

I was amused to see that about 13 years ago he did a voice over for a character in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. He basically played an aging hippy, who participated in the summer of love but was so stoned out of his head he could barely remember it. Very funny, and you could tell he was having an absolute blast doing it. The same game had voice overs from James Woods and Samuel L Jackson, all of whom were great in it.

 

So long Easy Rider.

Edited August 17, 2019 by Stuart Galbraith

[Ssnake]

He made an excellent villain in Once Upon A Time In The West.

[BansheeOne]

That was his dad Henry, who has been dead for 37 years. Funnily I thought it was about the latter when I first saw the news, too, and was surprised that Peter was actually younger than his sister Jane. Shows in which different ways actors stick in your mind.

[Stuart Galbraith]

He played a pretty good villain in Open Season and Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary. So he shared that particular talent with his old man.

 

I guess the best credit you can make about him is he made unpromising, schlocky films, good ones. Which was probably par for the course through much of the 70's Hollywood output.

[Jeff]

 

Peter Fonda 79 yo

Other than being a character in the cult movie Easy Rider, Fonda's greatest claim to fame was being the younger brother of Jane.

 

 

And a raging douche on social media. None the less, RIP.

[R011]

He's an actor. They're all raging douches.

[Jeff]

Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald's side, dies at 99

 

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