The RIP Thread

maybe the dog was better

 

Actor John Heard, 72.

 

Have to laugh at the way the public takes the pi$$ some times

 

Doggy mc dog face

 

Sam Shepard: US actor and playwright dies aged 73

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US actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73.
Shepard wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979.
He went on to be nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar for 1983's The Right Stuff and starred in films like Black Hawk Down as well as co-writing 1984's Paris, Texas.
He died at home in Kentucky on Thursday, his family told the Associated Press news agency.

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Image caption Shepard starred as Chuck Yeager in historical drama The Right Stuff
His first major acting role was in Terrence Malik's Days of Heaven in 1978, in which he starred alongside Richard Gere.
Other film credits include Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief and The Accidental Husband.
More recently, he was seen in two series of Netflix thriller Bloodline.
Shepard also appears in psychological thriller Never Here, which had its premiere last month.

 

And Sadly
Jeanne Moreau: French screen icon and star of Jules et Jim, dies at 89

 

Great actress, even her attitude had attitude, turned down Mrs Robinson in The Graduate. Mon Dieu...

RIP

 

https://www.google.com.au/amp/thene...es-murray-voice-soccer-australia-dead-71/amp/

Les Murray - Mr Football in Australia - died today. Has always been front and centre, taking Aus football from a footballing backwater driven by ethnicity to where it is today. Not suggesting Aus is a potential world beater, but it's in better shape than it was 20 years ago when I got here.

 

Agreed, this gentleman dedicated his life to doing all he could for football Australia.
A very decent chap and we are better for having had the pleasure of knowing him.
Condolences to his family.

 

Robert Hardy, best known for his part in 'All Creatures Great and Small' has passed away at 91. RIP...

 

Also actor Hywel Bennett best known as 'Shelley' in the TV series of the 70s has died aged 73...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...actor-thames-television-shelley-a7874336.html

 

Two very fine English actors gone :-(

 

gutted. both good actors

 

Sad to see them both go. RIP

 

I always liked Shelley and Hwyel Bennett. Being an avid reader of the late Leslie Thomas' novels, I also enjoyed Bennett's portrayal of Brigg in The Virgin Soldiers too.

 

Bennett was married to Cathy McGowan, for those old enough to remember Ready Steady Go!

McGowan is now married to Michael Ball, who's 19 years younger than her...

 

Hywel Bennett was a fine actor. Always thought his performance in Shelley was underrated.

 

Glen Campbell, brown bread!

 

Country star Glen Campbell dies at 81

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Rhinestone Cowboy singer Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81 after "a long and courageous battle" with Alzheimer's disease, his family said.
"It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather," their statement said.
The legendary guitarist announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2011.
A self-taught prodigy, he rose from an impoverished childhood in Arkansas to sell 45 million records.

Obituary: Glen Campbell

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Glen Campbell was one of the most successful country singers of his generation.
In a career spanning six decades, he released more than 70 albums and amassed nine Grammy awards.
His melodic songs found success in the pop charts with hits including Galveston, Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman.
And he also made a foray into acting, notably alongside John Wayne in the film True Grit.
Glen Travis Campbell was born in Pike County, Arkansas, on 22 April 1936, the seventh of 12 children.
His father was a sharecropper, a tenant who paid his rent with a proportion of the crops that he grew.
His first guitar cost $7 from a Sears catalogue and he whiled away the time teaching himself to play.

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Image caption By the mid 1960s he'd established himself as a solo artist
"We didn't have power in the house, but we did have an old battery radio. And whenever I heard a new song, usually on a local country station, I'd learn it."
His proficiency led to an offer to join a band fronted by his uncle, Dick Bills and the Sandia Mountain Boys. There were appearances on local radio and a spot on a children's TV channel.
Campbell moved to Los Angeles in 1960 and became a member of a group of musicians named The Wrecking Crew, who backed artists such as Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.
His first solo chart entry, Turn Round and Look at Me, reached 62 in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.
Fruitful partnership
He also played a pivotal role in the producer Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound technique.
"When I met Phil, he was knocked out by my playing," Campbell later recalled. "He was like a child with a new toy."
For three months in 1965 he toured with the Beach Boys, filling in for singer Brian Wilson, who had experienced a breakdown.

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Image caption John Wayne invited him to star in True Grit
His big break came in 1967 with the Jimmy Webb song By the Time I Get to Phoenix, which reached number two in the US Country charts.
Campbell's partnership with Webb was to be a fruitful one, as hit followed hit. Wichita Lineman went to No 1 in the US and also broke him in Britain where it reached the Top 10 in 1968.
"Jimmy used to write in the studio as I was recording," said Campbell. "When he sang me the parts of Wichita Lineman he'd written, I knew it was a hit."
The song collected a Grammy and became much requested by US soldiers fighting in Vietnam.
Primetime show
He followed it up with Galveston a year later, which again charted on both sides of the Atlantic.
In January 1969 he started hosting his own primetime TV show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
The show, which ran for three years, made him a huge star and his fame encouraged a glittering roster of stars to appear with him.

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Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson and the Monkees were among the artists who were guests on the show.
He was also invited by John Wayne, a long time Campbell admirer, to appear in the Western True Grit. He won a Grammy for his performance of the film's title song.
His biggest hit came in 1975 with Rhinestone Cowboy, which reached the Top 10 in a number of countries, including the UK. It coincided with a series of shows on BBC television
There was another smash in 1977, - Southern Nights - but both his career and personal life began to slide. He divorced his second wife in 1975 but a subsequent marriage lasted just four years.
Salvation
While country aficionados continued to buy his records, his mainstream audience had begun to desert him.
He turned to alcohol and drugs for solace. "I was fine when I was doing session work. My schedule then would have killed a horse, so there was no time for drugs," he later said.
"But later on, I didn't have any stability. After a couple of failed marriages, it became a bit of a habit."

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His short but high profile relationship with 21-year-old country star Tanya Tucker, 25 years his junior, provided much fodder for the gossip magazines.
His salvation came when he met and married Kim Woolen in 1982 and turned to God.
"I got down on my knees and prayed. And, eventually, I got rid of those demons." Apart from a brief lapse in 2003, when he was jailed for drink-driving, he stayed off the booze and the drugs.
In 2005 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Throughout this period, he continued to play and record and released covers of songs by artists as diverse as U2 and Green Day.
In 2011 Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and set off on a farewell tour that included an emotional goodbye at the Grammy Awards in February 2012.
"I've accomplished everything I wanted to do," he said in a 2012 interview. "I've been blessed. When I think back to where I came from, I have been able to do some amazing things in my life. And music will always be part of my life."

 

RIP, his Wichita Lineman (not linesman) turned me on to Wichita