"Seventh Python" Neil Innes, 75. Writer performer musician, he wrote things like "Knights of the Round Table" in Grail (where he was also the serf crushed by the giant "trojan rabbit"). He was a Rutle, wrote all the Rutles songs, and he was founder of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Cleese and Palin weigh in with their remembrances, along with Stephen Fry, Charlie Brooker, Diane Morgan and Billy Bragg.

Making the rounds in illustration groups today:
Blade Runner artist and futurist designer Syd Mead dies at 86

Don Larsen RIP

And that NBA guy, whats his name.

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Ah crap

RIP Neil Peart. You changed everything sir

Neil Peart died?

67, brain cancer :thepain:

Buck Henry.

I would see him hosting SNL, and wonder who he was and what he was famous for.

Apparently he wrote scripts and made movies from behind the camera.

damn

Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip, too.

Neil Peart was a shocker.

I use a Rush-based name on another forum. It feels a bit stupid today.

Christopher Tolkien, 3rd son of J.R.R. Tolkien.

He edited much his father's work, and drew the maps for The Lord of the Rings. He was 95.

Also passing recently, Rocky Johnson, pro wrestler, and father of wrestler/actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

He was 75.

Tractor girl...

Jack Van Impe
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We used to watch him every Sunday before church.

Terry Jones. :(

I just read that. I was a little stunned.

From his Wiki page:

Terry Jones was 77.

Awful.

Jim Lehrer was a great fan of public bus transportation writing both fiction and nonfiction about them. He may have even driven them.
He also replied personally to every letter I wrote him.

Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash.

Dr. Frieda Rapoport Caplan at 96.
She introduced America to kiwi, mango, blood orange, endives, kumquat, chayote squash, shiitake mushrooms, tamarind, and ghost peppers among dozens of other things.

Nicolas Parsons, British Entertainer

I'm pretty sure he was on our Mr Limey's list for years. but not this year ...

lol, yes first thing I did was go and check your list :D

Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103

R.I.P. Orson Bean, 91

Orson Bean was killed by a car while walking.
He was a very funny man.
I am pretty sure it was in Mad Magazine where he showed how to make a fir tree out of a newspaper. I made two many years apart, but can't find the instructions now.

Robert Conrad, Star of Television Series The Wild Wild West, Dies at 84

I always liked his work.

I think he was a good guy too.

I liked his portrayal of Pappy Boyington.

Robert Conrad vs Lou Ferrigno (TV's The Incredible Hulk):

It made for good TV, but Black Sheep Squadron was not anywhere close to real life, despite Greg Boyington consulting on the project. I've read two biographies on Major Boyington and in an interview he said as much.

The men of VMF-214 were neither misfits nor screwballs; they were simply Marine aviators who happened to be either unassigned or available at the time when 214 was being assembled. Their planes were not stolen, they were merely being turned in from another squadron and Boyington only appropriated them.

Major Boyington was a colorful figure and fascinating to study.

Isn't that the same thing? :lol:

Definitely made for tv stuff. I think I'm gonna start reading on the 214.

what he said.

Aw, shit, man. Willona died.

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Ja'Net DuBois (who played 'Willona' on Good Times) died on Feb 17 of natural causes. She was either 74, 81, or 87.

Also, Kellye Nakahara, who played 'Nurse Kellye' on M*A*S*H,

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died of cancer on Feb 16. She was 73.

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Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling died Feb 19. He was 78.

Katherine Johnson.

She wasn't famous, but she should have been.

was famous among nerds, John Glenn, and other npr listeners

Semi-famous, I had heard of her.



Maybe I'm a semi-nerd. :smack:

I didn't know her until the movie and surrounding buzz. smrt lady.

Author/explorer Clive Cussler.

He was 88.

A goddess at NASA, (except when it came to pay or recognition) made it to 101.

Sad to hear about Clive Cussler. He is my favorite fiction/adventure writer.
I hope the books keep coming from the co-authors!

James Lipton,

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of Inside the Actors Studio fame, died Mar 2.

His fish was bladder cancer.

He was 93.

You cross 90, I just say old-age.

Ya know the grocery chain Trader Joe's?

Yeah, Joe died.

Joe Coulombe was 89.

Poet Lisel Mueller at 96.

(wow)

Rosie The Riveter passed away March 4.

Rosalind P. Walter was 95.

David Paul, who starred with his twin brother, Peter, in The Barbarians,

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died March 6, two days shy of his 63rd birthday.

No fish yet.

Max von Sydow was 90.

I saw "The Seventh Seal" when it came out; I was in high school and I thought von Sydow was an old man.
Here it turns out he was just a little older than I am.

UK: Roy Hudd I used to get him confused with Rod Hull.

Is it a rule over there about being on Coronavirustion Street and then dying?

I mean everyone who has been on the show dies. Or rather, everyone in England who dies has been on the show...:stickpoke:p:

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to die

Say what?