Celebrity deaths

Châtelaine wrote:Anyone remembering John Hurt as Caligula?

No, don't remember that but his role as Quentin Crisp won him many awards.........

Here it is Chatelaine.

One of the earliest roles that I remember him for - the doomed Timothy Evans in the real-life drama 10 Rillington Place.

Made this thread a sticky so easy to find.  Hope this puts a jinx on it and we don't see so many now, quite a few already since the beginning of the year.

Châtelaine wrote:Anyone remembering John Hurt as Caligula?

Yes I do. "I Claudius" wasn't it, with the quite brilliant Derek Jacobi as Claudius and the equally brilliant John Hurt as Caligula.

Yes, it was what I was referring too.
"I Claudius" with the great Derek Jacobi.
"Caligula" the film was good, but not grand.

Oh, and have you ever seen the even great Orson Welles as Claudius in a movie, which was never finished?

The Caligula I remember starred Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/01/radio-2-presenter-desmond-carrington-dies-aged-90-after-battle-with-alzheimers-disease-and-cancer-6421828/

Being of a certain age - all right, an old git - I remember him from Emergency Ward 10, he was a bit of a heart throb.

Yeah, I remember him too, was looking at pictures earlier of him in the hospital drama.  Used to love that programme.  He lived to a good old age though.

Remember the programme, but not the individual characters though.

The best known actors were I think John Alderton and his then wife Jill Browne.

I'd have to cheat to come up with the characters' names though!

Bloody hell:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4204292/Socialite-Tara-Palmer-Tomkinson-dies-aged-45.html

Andrew wrote:Bloody hell:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4204292/Socialite-Tara-Palmer-Tomkinson-dies-aged-45.html

Blimey, that's a shocker, was only reading something about her a couple of weeks ago.  Very sad, thought she was great in I'm a Celeb a couple of years back. 

I hope that The Mail hasn't buried Tara prematurely. I can't find anything else about this. Here is the BBC's most recent report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38038999

Freedom wrote:I hope that The Mail hasn't buried Tara prematurely. I can't find anything else about this. Here is the BBC's most recent report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38038999

Another article here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tara-palmer-tomkinson-found-dead-9779997

Freedom wrote:I hope that The Mail hasn't buried Tara prematurely. I can't find anything else about this. Here is the BBC's most recent report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38038999

BBC now has it as a breaking news banner at the bottom of the page.

Alan Simpson Steptoe and Son writer has died, but he was 87......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38906672

I've had a BBC update now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38911818#"

This isn't a recent death but there might be people interested in this programme about Terry Pratchett.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08fjlvx/terry-pratchett-back-in-black?suggid=b08fjlvx

Al Jarreau (1940-2017)

I'm a great Archers fan and had heard a while ago that Sara was suffering from terminal cancer.
Caroline (her character) was an interesting and important one.    I am very sorry to hear of her passing.


Sara Coward, The Archers' Caroline Sterling, dies at 69

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38956870

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4220950/Tom-Cruise-s-mother-Mary-Lee-dies-80.html

Never seen her before. They look very alike.

It was natural causes for Tara.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tara-palmer-tomkinson-was-in-high-spirits-when-she-died-of-natural-causes-says-sister/ar-AAmY6Eh?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

Still no funeral for George Michael pending the results of toxicology tests. I don't recall hearing of a case where this has happened when the death has been classified as having no suspicious circumstances.