Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Jim Delligatti, inventor of the Big Mac, aged 98 yrs.

Andrew Sachs - probably best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

Fawlty Towers was one of the funniest shows and Manuel was a riot. Andrew Sachs will be missed. Just wish they had made more episodes.

Ahhh! Hadn't seen your tributes! Dearest moderators, please remove my thread in Arts and Entertaintainment?

Andrew Sachs was so much more than Manuel. He was also a gifted narrator, bringing to life the usually dull documentaries featuring great visual but boring technical or uninspiring voiceovers. I think we also caught a few audio books with his lively characters.

And some of his best work was making others' not-so-great days look much better.

We'll miss him, but we have great tech to revisit some of his work.

marksierra said:

Andrew Sachs - probably best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

Que?

mumstheword said:

marksierra said:

Andrew Sachs - probably best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

Que?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/02/andrew-sachs-manuels-five-most-farcial-moments-in-fawlty-towers

William Trevor, back in November.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books/william-trevor-dead.html

Arguably, not so much a celebrity, I guess.

Don Calfa. Those wide eyes. I liked him best way back in The Star Chamber.

The guy that invented General Tso's Chicken. He was 98.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/general-tso-chicken-peng-chang-kuei.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Wayne Duncan, bass player in the legendary Aussie band, Daddy Cool, has died at the age of 72. He had suffered a stroke last week.

His death comes nine months after the death of guitarist and fellow founding member of the band, Ross Hannaford.

Daddy Cool was a great Aussie band. Their 'Eagle Rock' was the first track I played on air when I started in radio at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) student station.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/daddy-cool-bass-player-wayne-duncan-dead-aged-72-20161204-gt3kqp.html

love this old clip (sorry it's fuzzy); Ross was such a loose-limbed dancer

Train_of_Thought said:

Don Calfa. Those wide eyes. I liked him best way back in The Star Chamber.

To me, he was the quirky epitome of a "Barney Miller" culprit.

marksierra said:

mumstheword said:

marksierra said:

Andrew Sachs - probably best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

Que?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/02/andrew-sachs-manuels-five-most-farcial-moments-in-fawlty-towers

Thanks! I laughed 'til I cried. I don't know how this series isn't in the Top 3 of all TV series (because it's British?). Now I have to go hunt to watch them online.

DaveSchmidt said:

Train_of_Thought said:

Don Calfa. Those wide eyes. I liked him best way back in The Star Chamber.

To me, he was the quirky epitome of a "Barney Miller" culprit.

Absolutely!

(Sidenote: I have always thought an unsung hero of that show to be James Gregory, as Inspector Luger. When he entered, his chemistry with Barney invariably elevated the episode. IMHO.)

Train_of_Thought said:

(Sidenote: I have always thought an unsung hero of that show to be James Gregory, as Inspector Luger. When he entered, his chemistry with Barney invariably elevated the episode. IMHO.)

More Luger. Less Levitt.

Greg Lake, who fronted Emerson, Lake and Palmer, as well as King Crimson - dead at the age of 69.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38251936

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/08/greg-lake-dies-prog-rock-king-crimson-emerson-palmer

John Glenn. Astronaut and former Senator from Ohio. Age 95. RIP.

Both icons of their (our) times.

Alan Thicke, father of Robin Thicke and star of "Growing Pains".

E R Braithwaite, author of 'To Sir, With Love', dead at the age of 104.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-14/to-sir-with-love-author-er-braithwaite-dies-aged-104/8118780

Also NYC based author Shirley Hazzard.

It's a sad week for authors; we've lost Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain too.

annielou said:

Alan Thicke, father of Robin Thicke and star of "Growing Pains".

He was my "pretend" next door neighbor growing up. Seemed like such a nice, cool guy...IRL too.

CNN still airing the Alan Thicke Optima Tax Relief spots this morning. They should probably stop that.

Character actor Bernard Fox. Longest and best know run as Dr. Bombay on Bewitched.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/14/bernard-fox-dead-bewitched-actor-dies-age-89

another colourful character actor... Sigh

Craig Sager, man with colorful suits and a mike...

(Sorry - confused due to heatwave)

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Henry J. Heimlich, the Cincinnati surgeon whose “bearhug” maneuver has been credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of choking victims but whose aggressive self-promotion and un­or­tho­dox medical ideas cast a shadow over his legacy, died Dec. 17 in Cincinnati. He was 96.

http://wapo.st/2gWN6UW

Jasmo said:

Henry J. Heimlich, the Cincinnati surgeon whose “bearhug” maneuver has been credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of choking victims but whose aggressive self-promotion and un­or­tho­dox medical ideas cast a shadow over his legacy, died Dec. 17 in Cincinnati. He was 96.

http://wapo.st/2gWN6UW

Now here is a piece of trivia no one needs to know...Heimlich is the uncle of Anson Williams, who is known for his portrayal of Warren "Potsie" Weber on the 70s hit TV show Happy Days.[9