Topic: The Dead Actors Tribute Thread

[Buck Pete]

aww man.  Played one of my all-time fav scary TV villains

Nice body of work on his CV too.

RIP

[Rob K]

aww man.  Played one of my all-time fav scary TV villains

Nice body of work on his CV too.

RIP

Remembered him being in ace Ventura, but literally never clicked he was in scarface too until I just seen a pic from it and it’s bloody obvious it was him now 🙈

RIP

[Brian Blessed]

Well that's fucking shit news. Talk about an actor able to do more with less  - even no - dialogue

I was going to say something similar. So intimidating despite only being able to ring a bell and pull faces.

[BarryCrocker]

Sir Michael Parkinson - 88

Not really an actor but a giant of TV.

I had the joy of making his daily coffee one summer when he and Mary came for their yearly trip.

Lovely man.

"Nowadays being famous is almost a lifestyle, it's almost a career. Kids grow up thinking "I'll be a celebrity." That kind of empty celebrity and the fame that might follow is dangerous.
It's celebrity without substance."

[Brian Blessed]

David McCallum has died, aged 90. He was in a million things, but Sapphire and Steal is the one I’ll remember him for.

[oojason]

David McCallum has died, aged 90. He was in a million things, but Sapphire and Steal is the one I’ll remember him for.

Same here mate - scary supernatural type series when watching it as a kid back then. 90?! He looked very well for it. RIP.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66919863 & www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/25/david-mccallum-man-from-uncle-ncis-dies-age-90

[BarryCrocker]

David McCallum has died, aged 90. He was in a million things, but Sapphire and Steal is the one I’ll remember him for.

Most will remember this piece of music which was sampled for 'The Next Episode' by Dr Dre.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/y05mMRJrUnE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/y05mMRJrUnE</a>

Also as Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt in The Great Escape.

[Stubbins]

David McCallum has died, aged 90. He was in a million things, but Sapphire and Steal is the one I’ll remember him for.

Going back a bit further - Flt. Lt. Simon Carter. Trying to escape from a German POW camp again, but this time from Colditz. TV series in the early 70s. As a young lad, I loved it.

[Brian Blessed]

Most will remember this piece of music which was sampled for 'The Next Episode' by Dr Dre.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/y05mMRJrUnE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/y05mMRJrUnE</a>

Also as Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt in The Great Escape.

He did music as well? So obscenely talented!

[Nitramdorf]

I remember him most from The Great Escape. He could almost taste the freedom.

RIP.

[Musketeer Gripweed]

Legend has it his family stayed across the road from my house, but I don't know for sure. They definitely had a shop in the town and there is still a pew in the church with their name on it.

[Riquende]

Absolutely loved the Man from UNCLE as a kid, watching episodes here and there. Watched it through again a few years back - it was more lighthearted than I remember but still great. Him and Robert Vaughn as the amazingly named Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo were a brilliant double act.

[Red Beret]

My earliest memory of him was Sapphire and Steel. It wasn't until much later I discovered his other work. He was second radio operator Harold Bride in A Night to Remember for example.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

RIP

[jillcwhomever]

I loved David McCallum, sad news. RIP.

[reddebs]

One of those involved in all the good TV and film stuff throughout my life.  Ducky in NCIS was such a superb role for him.

RIP

[Crosby Nick]

Michael Gambon has died. RIP

[Nobby Reserve]

Michael Gambon has died. RIP

 :'(


Another Dumbledore down.

[Ray K]

RIP. One of the great Irish actors 
Probably better on stage and tv than on movies - his work for Pinter and Dennis Potter will always outlive his work in Harry Potter.  As will his sterling work on the Top Gear track 

[Baby Huey]

His work with Peter Greenaway in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover will be the film I remember him for mostly.

[Crosby Nick]

Welcome to the layer cake son.

[Red Beret]

Ironic that Michael Gambon looks so much older than David McCallum. Just goes to show how different faces fitted different roles.

[BarryCrocker]

Welcome to the layer cake son.

“You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.”

One of my fave movie scenes where he's schooling Daniel Craig on being a gangster.

[Terry de Niro]

Liverpool-born actor Jake Abraham of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame and many other shows has died at the age of 56 after fighting cancer for a good while.

RIP Jake.

[I've been a good boy]

RIP Burt Young AKA Paulie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67155816

[duvva 💅]

RIP Burt Young AKA Paulie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67155816

I read that earlier.

I saw him at Madison Square Garden the night Naseem Hamed fought Kevin Kelley. He was introduced to the crowd along with all the boxers like he was proper boxing royalty

[duvva 💅]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67172672

Haydn Gwynne has died, she was 66. Thought she was younger

Remember her best from Drop the Dead Donkey many years ago, but has been in loads of TV the past 30 years

[Statto Red]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67172672

Haydn Gwynne has died, she was 66. Thought she was younger

Remember her best from Drop the Dead Donkey many years ago, but has been in loads of TV the past 30 years

Same with me.

 I remember her from the first 2 series from Drop The Dead Donkey as Alex Pates, she was in a cop show called Merseybeat, which mostly filmed in the Halton area [John McArdle was one of the cast members, McArdle was better known for playing Billy Corkhill in Brookside].

[jillcwhomever]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67172672

Haydn Gwynne has died, she was 66. Thought she was younger

Remember her best from Drop the Dead Donkey many years ago, but has been in loads of TV the past 30 years

I used to love Drop the Dead Donkey, sad news.

[So… Howard Philips]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67172672

Haydn Gwynne has died, she was 66. Thought she was younger

Remember her best from Drop the Dead Donkey many years ago, but has been in loads of TV the past 30 years

She was a great Camilla in the Crown as well.

I thought she was younger but as you get older you start to lose the ability to accurately age others.

[reddebs]

Richard Roundtree 😟

Loved watching Shaft as a kid.  RIP

[Chakan]

Matthew Perry dead at 54 apparent drowning.

https://amp.tmz.com/2023/10/28/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-dies-drowning/

[ljycb]

Mathew Perry dead at 54 apparent drowning.

https://amp.tmz.com/2023/10/28/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-dies-drowning/

Devastating.

[shank94]

Always related so much to Chandler, he played him so effortlessly. Terrible news RIP

[rafathegaffa83]

RIP

[TipTopKop]

Horrible news. Perry had his troubles, but was so many's favourite in Friends. RIP

[stevieG786]

chandler  :'(

[rawcusk8]

Ahh man, Chandler

[RedSince86]

Just found this out, shocking news.


RIP.

[John C]

That is such sad news.
Millions of people will have their own favourite moments of any one of the thousands of scenes he played as Chandler, he was a special person in a special show.

RIP.