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Well I have added 2013, as I was just saddened to read in a post here that one of my favourite authors.Vince Flynn died June 2013 from prostrate cancer after a three year battle.
One of the authors I found last year.
regards
Sean
HiAnother legend of the silver screen, and star of American television had died.
Sid Caesar age 91 years old.
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Sean
I hadn't heard about Vince Flynn. We have several of his books here that I haven't gotten around to yet, but my husband and my father both love him. RIP
I've been on Vince Flynn's email newsletter list for a long time. Here is a part of what they sent out after he passed away..."NEW YORK, JUNE 19, 2013-Vince Flynn, the bestselling author of the Mitch Rapp thriller series died early this morning after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 47.
The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 6, 1966. He graduated from the Saint Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988."
“It has been our distinct honor to publish Vince Flynn for the entire length of his career,” said Carolyn Reidy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc. “As good as Vince was on the page - and he gave millions of readers countless hours of pleasure - he was even more engaging in person. He had a truly unique ability to make everyone - from those of us at Simon & Schuster who were fortunate to be part of his publication, to booksellers and retailers around the nation, and most of all, his readers, with whom he had a very close relationship - feel as if we were on his team and sharing in his life and his success. Yes, we will miss the Mitch Rapp stories that are classic modern thrillers, but we will miss Vince even more.”
Another day, and another legend has died.Actor and star of the Waltons had died age 85 years old.
Ralph Waite
I wrote to him last years and received a signed photograph, previously had photos ten years ago.
Was still working.
HiShould mention the recent death of actor Harold Ramis, age 69 years, who had mean unwell for five years.
The star of Ghostbusters, director of Caddyshack.
Two stars I have not mentioned previously who passed away this year.Sid Caesar age 91 years old
Famous for his television and film work for many years.
International film star and Austrian actor Maximillian Schell age 83 years old.
A tribute to the talent of Philip Seymour Hoffman who we lost recently.
A tribute to the actor Paul walker who died on November 2013
Another person to add to this list, I remembered when someone mentioned him as their favorite author is Tom Clancy. He passed away in October of last year. I had the opportunity to meet him when I was about 12, although I hadn't read any of his books yet.
'Homeland' Actor James Rebhorn Dead at 65 James Rebhorn, the busy character actor who played the father of Claire Danes' troubled CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the Showtime drama Homeland, has died. He passed away at his home on Friday, his agent Dianne Busch confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 65.
Died March 21st of skin cancer
Patrice Wymore Flynn, a Hollywood actress and cattle rancher who was the widow of swashbuckling screen legend Errol Flynn, has died at her seaside home in Jamaica. She was 87.On Monday, family spokesman Robb Callahan said Flynn died Saturday at her home in Jamaica's Portland parish after battling pulmonary disease. During her film career, she worked alongside actors such as Doris Day, Kirk Douglas and Randolph Scott. She played Frank Sinatra's girlfriend in the original "Ocean's 11" in 1960. The Kansas-born actress met her future husband when she was cast as the female lead in the 1950 western "Rocky Mountain."
Actress Alexandra BastedoWell I have to mention this actress as I had a teenage crush on her, when watching the classic series of the 60's " The Champions "!
Age 67 years old from cancer in West Sussex, UK
Died January 12th 2014, but just read the sad news.
A great supporter of RSPCA.
Roger Lloyd PackWho died January 15th 2014 age 69 years old
Forever remembered for Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar Of Dibley
His first television appearances were similar peripheral 'no-name parts' as cleaners, soldiers and constables. After years of toiling in relative obscurity, he finally managed to secure a recurring role as the vacuous, simple-minded road sweeper Colin 'Trigger' Ball in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses.... (1981). Appearing in nearly every episode of the long-running series, Lloyd Pack came to be identified with this character in the national consciousness to such an extent, that he could "not go anywhere without anyone going on about it".
His next popular casting was no less fortuitous: that of the flatulent, somewhat seedy farmer Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley (1994), lusting after Dawn French's extrovert cleric (when not entertaining dubious thoughts about farm animals). On the big screen, Lloyd Pack reached a wider audience as Bartemius Crouch Sr, a ruthless Ministry of Magic functionary in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), destined to be killed by his Death Eater son, played by David Tennant. Still more dramatic was his role as evil megalomaniac John Lumic (who creates an army of cybermen in his pursuit of immortality) menacing Tennant and company in the Doctor Who (1963) two-parter "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel", set on a parallel Earth. Lloyd Pack thoroughly enjoyed participating in the iconic series.
Kate O'Mara dead: Dynasty and Doctor Who actress dies aged 74
Dipanjan wrote: "A tribute to the talent of Philip Seymour Hoffman who we lost recently."Very sad. He was brilliant as Truman Capote in 'In Cold Blood'.
@ Paul - Yessir. I was totally bowled over in "The Boat That Rocked" as well. One of the most natural actors of our times.
The Late Great Mickey Rooney RIPMickey Rooney, the pint-sized actor who was one of MGM’s giant box office attractions in the late ’30s and early ’40s, has died, sources confirm. He was 93.
As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (“I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,” he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards and received two special Oscars, the Juvenile Award in 1939 (shared with Deanna Durbin) and one in 1983 for his body of work.
He also appeared on series and TV and in made for television movies, one of which, “Bill,” the touching story of a mentally challenged man, won him an Emmy. He was Emmy nominated three other times. And for “Sugar Babies,” a musical revue in which he starred with Ann Miller,
Peaches Geldof.Died age 25 years old.
7th April 2014
Sean wrote: "Peaches Geldof.Died age 25 years old.
7th April 2014"
So young. Very sad.
A great British classic, At Time Goes By. RIP
Oh sad, another wrestling icon gone.Sadly too many drugs in the business...
Others have died young,like Macho Man ..
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in New Jersey in the 1960s and later exonerated, has died from prostate cancer. The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted confirmed the former boxer's death Sunday on its website. He was 76. Also read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 (Photos) Denzel Washington in “The Hurricane” (Universal Home Video) Carter was the subject of the 1999 film “The Hurricane,” starring Denzel Washington. The actor won a Golden Globe, an NAACP Image Award and received an Academy Award nomination for his performance.
Actor Bob Hoskins has died of pneumonia at the age of 71. The British actor announced he was retiring from acting in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. His agent confirmed to the BBC that he had died.
Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for his leading role in Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa, for which he won Best Actor at the BAFTAs and the Cannes Film Festival.
He had previously received BAFTA nominations for his roles in Dennis Potter’s Pennies From Heaven (1978), classic gangster drama The Long Good Friday (1980) and his supporting performance opposite Michael Caine and Richard Gere in The Honorary Consul (1983).
Hoskins also attracted awards attention from the Golden Globes, with nominations for his role in live action-animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Stephen Frears’ Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005).
Sean wrote: "Actor Bob Hoskins has died of pneumonia at the age of 71. The British actor announced he was retiring from acting in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. His agent confirmed to th..."
Very sad. Great character actor.
he was also in hook too as mr. smee. It was sad that he passed away.
I am a tennis addict and very sad to hear the passing away of Elena Baltacha. RIP
What a shock, sadly died from liver cancer only five months after announcing she had cancer. age 30 years young !Very Sad News !
IPSWICH, England - Elena Baltacha, who was diagnosed with liver cancer in mid-January of this year, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, surrounded by friends and family. She was just 30. Just two months after retiring from professional tennis and just a few weeks after marrying longtime coach and partner Nino Severino, the former British No.1 was diagnosed with the disease, and after months of battling it finally succumbed to it at her home in the early hours of Sunday, May 4, 2014. Statement from Nino Severino, Elena's husband:"We are heartbroken beyond words at the loss of our beautiful, talented and determined Bally. She was an amazing person and she touched so many people with her inspirational spirit, her warmth and her kindness." Statement from Stacey Allaster, Chairman & CEO of the WTA:"We are deeply grieved to lose our friend Elena Baltacha in her battle with cancer. Elena's journey was never an easy one and yet she consistently showed her strength, good humor and indomitable spirit. "The WTA was blessed to have such a champion compete and represent women's tennis; Elena passionately represented Great Britain on the world stage and her personal commitment to excellence inspired us all throughout her career to strive for more, to be more, to give more. The loss of this special person will have a significant impact on her fellow competitors who not only respected her, but more importantly, loved her. 'Bally' was such a caring human being, always putting others before herself, and a warm, fun person. A shining example of her commitment to looking out for the welfare of others is the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis, which she established so that children from disadvantaged backgrounds could learn to play the game she loved so dearly. "I am honored that I had the opportunity to know Elena, to call her 'Bally' as her friends do. She was a gift that was taken from us too soon; she will be deeply missed. On behalf of the WTA family of players and tournaments, our hearts and prayers go out to her loving and supportive husband Nino, her parents, brother and friends on this terribly sad day." Baltacha put her heart and soul into the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis, which helps children from all backgrounds to learn and play tennis. All those involved in running it have pledged to carry on the work she started. And the 'Rally Against Cancer - Rally For Bally' event will now be held in her memory on June 15 to raise funds for the Royal Marsden cancer charity and Elena Baltacha Foundation. The LTA wrote on their website: 'Today British Tennis mourns the loss of one of our own. The news of the death of Elena Baltacha, one of the shining lights of British women's tennis of recent generations, is devastating to everyone who has ever had the privilege to know her, play against her, or call her a friend or teammate.
I had met her twice, here in Jersey, when she played in a local Ladies Tournament.
British author Leslie Thomas.Author of The Virgin Soldiers, which was turned into a successful British film in the early 70's.
Awarded the OBE in 2005.
Leslie Thomas OBE born 1931 Died May 6th 2014
That to me was when heavyweight boxing was at it's best, when we had one champion.The Late 60's and 70's so many great heaveyweight fights.
RIP
Breaking News Actor Efrem Zimbalist Dies at 95'The FBI' Star Was Son of Diva Emma Gluck
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who portrayed the indefatigable Inspector Lewis Erskine on the long-running U.S. television series “The F.B.I.”, died on Friday at the age of 95, according to media reports.
Zimbalist died at his home in Solvang, California, his daughter, actress Stephanie Zimbalist, and his son Efrem Zimbalist III, said in a statement, Hollywood trade magazine Variety and other media reported.
“A devout Christian, he actively enjoyed his life to the last day, showering love on his extended family, playing golf, and visiting with close friends,” the statement said, according to Variety.
A spokesman for the family could not be immediately reached for comment.
From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, Zimbalist was one of the top stars on U.S. television, playing a private detective on the ABC series “77 Sunset Strip” from 1958 to 1964 before his stint on “The F.B.I.” on the same network from 1965 to 1974.
Zimbalist, the son of opera singer Alma Gluck and concert violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr., also appeared in about 20 movies - usually in supporting roles but sometimes as the leading man.
He was born on Nov. 30, 1918, in New York and saw U.S. Army combat duty during World War Two.
During its nine seasons on the air, “The F.B.I.” dramatized the Federal Bureau of Investigation as its agents solved murders, kidnappings and bank heists. Its episodes - inspired by real cases - required FBI approval.
Zimbalist portrayed Erskine as an assiduous, dedicated investigator during an era when the FBI in real life was embroiled in America’s tumult during the Vietnam War era.
The actor said the FBI’s larger-than-life director J. Edgar Hoover was initially reluctant to give his permission for the series and “was not a lover of Hollywood.” The two eventually met and had a steady correspondence.
In 2009, the FBI honored Zimbalist, at age 90, in a ceremony in Los Angeles in which agency Director Robert Mueller presented him with an honorary special agent badge.
Mueller said Zimbalist over the years helped the FBI by narrating recruitment commercials and taking part in fundraising events for children of agents killed in the line of duty.
“I’m a conservative Republican,” Zimbalist told the Oklahoman newspaper in 2011. “And I wasn’t a friend of the FBI just because I was in the show. My philosophy is the same. I was deeply aware of the sentiment against the bureau and against Hoover.”
On “77 Sunset Strip,” a show that was more carefree than “The F.B.I,” Zimbalist played wisecracking private detective Stu Bailey, starring alongside Roger Smith and Edd Byrnes.
Zimbalist appeared occasionally with his daughter Stephanie Zimbalist on her 1980s TV series “Remington Steele” with Pierce Brosnan, and later did voice work for animated TV shows.
His supporting movie roles included parts in “House of Strangers” (1949) with Edward G. Robinson, “Band of Angels” (1957) with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier, “Too Much, Too Soon” (1958) with Errol Flynn, “Airport 1975” (1974) with Charlton Heston and “Hot Shots!” (1991) with Charlie Sheen.
He was sometimes a leading man, as in “Harlow” in 1965 with Carol Lynley and “The Chapman Report” in 1962 with Jane Fonda.
Found dead in his garden at his ranch, just after watering his garden ! Age 95yo. RIP
H.R. Giger died (today?). Best known for his artwork in the creations in the 'Alien' movies. He also designed a number of album covers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREB3...
Anybody see NCIS last night and the tribute to Ralph Waite? awesome
J&I Love NCIS! I was telling him last nite that the new episode of NCIS is on & it's about Gibbs' dad dying. Not a big surprise being that the guy who played him died in real life! But did I know that? Nope! D-oh!
Lavada wrote: "Anybody see NCIS last night and the tribute to Ralph Waite? awesome"
I've got it on the DVR. One of this family's favorite shows. I think Waite was also Booth's grandfather on Bones, the man who raised him.
I've got it on the DVR. One of this family's favorite shows. I think Waite was also Booth's grandfather on Bones, the man who raised him.
Sean just seen on news Jerry Vale 83 &Gordon Willis 82 died. What a lose
Maya Angelou--One of my all time favorite authors. One of the first I have ever read!Acclaimed American poet and author Maya Angelou, who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.
Angelou “passed quietly in her home” before 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, her family said in a statement.
"She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being," the statement said. "She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace."
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Angelou lived and had served as a professor of American Studies since 1982, called her a "national treasure whose life and teachings inspired millions around the world."
Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Angelou defied all probability and category, becoming one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream success as an author and thriving in virtually every artistic medium. The young single mother who performed at strip clubs to earn a living later wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."
READ: Maya Angelou's Poetry, Quotes Shared on Social Media
"Caged Bird" was the start of a multipart autobiography that continued through the decades and captured a life of hopeless obscurity and triumphant, kaleidoscopic fame.
The childhood victim of rape wrote a million-selling memoir, befriended Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and performed on stages around the world.
Look: Maya Angelou's Life and Times
"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God," Angelou wrote May 23 in what would become a final message on her Twitter account.
Angelou had been set to appear this week at the Major League Baseball Beacon Awards Luncheon, but canceled in recent days citing an unspecified illness. She also bowed out of an event last month in Fayetteville, Arkansas, because she was recovering from an "unexpected ailment" that sent her to the hospital.
The world was watching in 1993 when she read her cautiously hopeful "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. Her confident performance openly delighted Clinton and made publishing history by making a poem a best-seller, if not a critical favorite. For President George W. Bush, she read another poem, "Amazing Peace," at the 2005 Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House. Presidents honored her in return with a National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. In 2013, she received an honorary National Book Award.
She called herself a poet, in love with the "sound of language," ''the music in language," as she explained to The Associated Press in 2013. But she lived so many lives. She was a wonder to Toni Morrison, who marveled at Angelou's freedom from inhibition, her willingness to celebrate her own achievements. She was a mentor to Oprah Winfrey, whom she befriended when Winfrey was still a local television reporter, and often appeared on her friend's talk show program. She mastered several languages and published not just poetry, but advice books, cookbooks and children's stories. She wrote music, plays and screenplays, received an Emmy nomination for her acting in "Roots," and never lost her passion for dance, the art she considered closest to poetry.
"The line of the dancer: If you watch (Mikhail) Baryshnikov and you see that line, that's what the poet tries for. The poet tries for the line, the balance," she told The Associated Press in 2008, shortly before her 80th birthday.
Her very name as an adult was a reinvention. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and raised in Stamps, Ark., and San Francisco, moving back and forth between her parents and her grandmother. She was smart and fresh to the point of danger, packed off by her family to California after sassing a white store clerk in Arkansas. Other times, she didn't speak at all: At age 7, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and didn't talk for years. She learned by reading, and listening.
"I loved the poetry that was sung in the black church: 'Go down Moses, way down in Egypt's land,'" she told the AP. "It just seemed to me the most wonderful way of talking. And 'Deep River.' Ooh! Even now it can catch me. And then I started reading, really reading, at about 7 1/2, because a woman in my town took me to the library, a black school library. ... And I read every book, even if I didn't understand it."
At age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, was married, and then divorced. But by her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, where she shared billing with another future star, Phyllis Diller. She also spent a few days with Billie Holiday, who was kind enough to sing a lullaby to Angelou's son, Guy, surly enough to heckle her off the stage and astute enough to tell her: "You're going to be famous. But it won't be for singing."
After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage ("Maya" was a childhood nickname, "Angelou" a variation of her husband's name), she toured in "Porgy and Bess" and Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and danced with Alvin Ailey. She worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Council, and lived for years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met Nelson Mandela, a longtime friend; and Malcolm X, to whom she remained close until his assassination, in 1965. Three years later, she was helping King organize the Poor People's March in Memphis, Tenn., where the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou's 40th birthday.
"Every year, on that day, Coretta and I would send each other flowers," Angelou said of King's widow, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006.
Angelou was little known outside the theatrical community until "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," which might not have happened if James Baldwin hadn't persuaded Angelou, still grieving over King's death, to attend a party at Jules Feiffer's house. Feiffer was so taken by Angelou that he mentioned her to Random House editor Bob Loomis, who persuaded her to write a book by daring her into it, saying that it was "nearly impossible to write autobiography as literature."
"Well, maybe I will try it," Angelou responded. "I don't know how it will turn out. But I can try."
Angelou's musical style was clear in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis's defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling:
"My race groaned," she wrote. "It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. ... If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help."
Angelou's memoir was occasionally attacked, for seemingly opposite reasons. In a 1999 essay in Harper's, author Francine Prose criticized "Caged Bird" as "manipulative" melodrama. Meanwhile, Angelou's passages about her rape and teen pregnancy have made it a perennial on the American Library Association's list of works that draw complaints from parents and educators.
"'I thought that it was a mild book. There's no profanity," Angelou told the AP. "It speaks about surviving, and it really doesn't make ogres of many people. I was shocked to find there were people who really wanted it banned, and I still believe people who are against the book have never read the book."
Angelou appeared on several TV programs, notably the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries "Roots." She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for her appearance in the play "Look Away." She directed the film "Down in the Delta," about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta. She won three Grammys for her spoken-word albums and in 2013 received an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary community.
Back in the 1960s, Malcolm X had written to Angelou and praised her for her ability to communicate so directly, with her "feet firmly rooted on the ground." In 2002, Angelou communicated in an unexpected way when she launched a line of greeting cards with industry giant Hallmark. Angelou admitted she was cool to the idea at first. Then she went to Loomis, her editor at Random House.
"I said, 'I'm thinking about doing something with Hallmark,'" she recalled. "And he said, 'You're the people's poet. You don't want to trivialize yourself.' So I said 'OK' and I hung up. And then I thought about it. And I thought, if I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in the people's hands — and I hope in their hearts. So I thought, 'Hmm, I'll do it.'"
In North Carolina, she lived in an 18-room house and taught American Studies at Wake Forest University. She was also a member of the Board of Trustees for Bennett College, a private school for black women in Greensboro, N.C. Angelou hosted a weekly satellite radio show for XM's "Oprah & Friends" channel.
She remained close enough to the Clintons that in 2008 she supported Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy over the ultimately successful run of the country's first black president, Barack Obama. But a few days before Obama's inauguration, she was clearly overjoyed. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she would be watching it on television "somewhere between crying and praying and being grateful and laughing when I see faces I know."
Active on the lecture circuit, she gave commencement speeches and addressed academic and corporate events across the country. Angelou received dozens of honorary degrees, and several elementary schools were named for her. As she approached her 80th birthday, she decided to study at the Missouri-based Unity Church, which advocates healing through prayer.
"I was in Miami and my son (Guy Johnson, her only child) was having his 10th operation on his spine. I felt really done in by the work I was doing, people who had expected things of me," said Angelou, who then recalled a Unity church service she attended in Miami.
"The preacher came out — a young black man, mostly a white church — and he came out and said, 'I have only one question to ask, and that is, "Why have you decided to limit God?'" And I thought, 'That's exactly what I've been doing.' So then he asked me to speak, and I got up and said, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.' And I said it about 50 times, until the audience began saying it with me, 'Thank you, THANK YOU!'"
Ann B. Davis, ‘Brady Bunch's’ Alice, Dead at 88Ann B. Davis, who was best known for playing housekeeper Alice Nelson on the hit ABC series “The Brady Bunch” died Sunday in San Antonio, Texas. Davis fell and hit her head in her bathroom on Saturday morning and suffered grave injuries. She was taken to a hospital where she died a day later, her agent Robert Malcolm told TheWrap. As Alice, Davis played a warmhearted housekeeper to one of television's first blended families, the Bradys – comprised of two divorcees and their six children., in the 1970s. Malcolm said he began working with Davis in 1992 and enjoyed having her as a client
British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56, according to his management team.He played the obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones alongside his friend Adrian Edmondson before the duo later went on to star in their sitcom Bottom.
Mayall also appeared in shows including Blackadder and The New Statesman.
He died at home in London. The Metropolitan Police said the death was not believed to be suspicious.
They said they were called to reports of a sudden death of a man in his 50s at 13:19 BST on Monday, in Barnes in south west London.
London Ambulance Service said "a man, aged in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene".
The actor, who was married with three children, was left seriously ill after a quad bike accident in 1998 which left him in a coma for several days.
Sean wrote: "British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56, according to his management team.He played the obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones alongside his friend Adrian Edmon..."
Oh, that's so sad. And so young too. He was gr8 in 'The Young Ones'.
Sean wrote: "Ann B. Davis, ‘Brady Bunch's’ Alice, Dead at 88Ann B. Davis, who was best known for playing housekeeper Alice Nelson on the hit ABC series “The Brady Bunch” died Sunday in San Antonio, Texas. Dav..."
I'd heard of her passing but didn't read any articles on it, so had no idea of the details. Assumed it was old age, how sad.
Thank you for posting all that information on Maya Angelou, I didn't know most of it. When I was a child my mother brought me the book, finding it used, of "I Know why a Caged Bird Sings." I never read it and no longer own it. As an adult appreciate the value of books such as that more.
Paul wrote: "Sean wrote: "British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56, according to his management team.He played the obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones alongside his friend..."
It is very sad indeed. I used to love The Young Ones and Bottom. I remember them the first time around, which makes me feel old all of a sudden.
Absolutely stunned at this.I remember him being special as far back as his Kevin Turvey days.
Just as special in The Young Ones.
Bottom is possibly my favourite 'sitcom' - I recorded them all on VHS and watched them until the tapes broke.
Filthy, Rich and Catflap was underrated, didn't seem to get the recognition it deserved.
Then he completely stole the show whenever he appeared in Blackadder.
A little straighter and more satirical in The New Statesman, but still very memorable.
He was in a few one-offs too, I remember a series of three one-hour comedy dramas which hopefuly might now get a repeat.
I always thought it unfortunate he didn't do too much in his latter years.
So young, so sad. He could have done much more comedy acting.
Miss you, 'Wrik'.
We still have Bottom Live VHS videos LOL
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RIP actress Shirley Temple who died 11th February age 85 years old. The largest star of the mid to late 30's, the highest paid star in the world 1935, 36, 37 and 36 and she was only, 7 to 10 years old. Retired in 1950.
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