As always, I hope this will be a short thread.

annnnnd we're off----
David Soul
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67895679

Goodbye Mrs Banks 
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/glynis-johns-dead-mary-poppins-mrs-banks-1235861986/

Quote from: Lambykins on January 05, 2024, 10:00:55 AMGoodbye Mrs Banks 
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/glynis-johns-dead-mary-poppins-mrs-banks-1235861986/

Trying to decide what's more surprising: what a moving, heartfelt sentiment from her manager, or that she even still had a manager at age 100.

I guess in show business, you always need someone to manage publicity, fan relations and royalties even if you've been retired for decades. Either that or she was one of those lucky souls who kept doing what she loved right up to the end of life. 

Cindy Morgan Dies: 'Caddyshack' And 'Tron' Actress Was 69

Quote from: NT2C on January 06, 2024, 06:06:16 PMCindy Morgan Dies: 'Caddyshack' And 'Tron' Actress Was 69

Her and Sarah Holcomb (who played Maggie the Irish waitress) were two of the reasons why I watched that movie when I was younger.

Joyce Randolph, best known for playing Trixie Norton in "The Honeymooners", passed away January 13th, 2024 at the age of 99.

She was the last surviving cast member of "The Honeymooners".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Randolph

Honeymooners actor Joyce Randolph dies at 99

QuoteMary Weiss, leader of sixties New York band the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75.
...
The Shangri-Las encapsulated the height of the early-sixties trend for teen tragedies, with the girls documenting their melodramas with songs such as "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" and 1964's "Leader of the Pack" — a track that went on to become a number one hit that year.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mary-weiss-the-shangri-las-dead-obituary-1234950474/

Jack Jennings, a British WW2 veteran, passed away on January 22nd, 2024, at the age of 104.

He is thought to be the last survivor of the Burma Death Railway, a structure built by 60,000 Allied POWs during WW2 for the Japanese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jennings_(veteran)

QuoteGreat musician, comedian and satirist Peter Schickele has died at his home in Bearsville, New York. And as the world says farewell to one of the most talented and admired parodists of the last century, a favourite Beethoven performance is being shared anew.

Schickele was born in 1935. He studied music at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and then composition at Juilliard. It was in New York where he began exploring musical comedy, and in a 1965 performance, he debuted his comic alter-ego P.D.Q. Bach.

Named in a play on the vast family of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, P.D.Q. was, according to Schickele, "the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd children", and (of course) entirely fictional.

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/pdq-bach-peter-schickele-sports-parody/

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 01:11:46 PMJack Jennings, a British WW2 veteran, passed away on January 22nd, 2024, at the age of 104.

He is thought to be the last survivor of the Burma Death Railway, a structure built by 60,000 Allied POWs during WW2 for the Japanese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jennings_(veteran)

Wow, I just took a deep dive into the Burma Railway starting with that wiki link.  Assuming this is the same wartime railway featured in the Alec Guinness classic Bridge Over River Kwai?

Quote from: majorhavoc on January 23, 2024, 01:47:36 PM

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 01:11:46 PMJack Jennings, a British WW2 veteran, passed away on January 22nd, 2024, at the age of 104.

He is thought to be the last survivor of the Burma Death Railway, a structure built by 60,000 Allied POWs during WW2 for the Japanese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jennings_(veteran)

Wow, I just took a deep dive into the Burma Railway starting with that wiki link.  Assuming this is the same wartime railway featured in the Alec Guinness classic Bridge Over River Kwai?

It may be the same one, but I'm not entirely sure.

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 02:29:37 PM

Quote from: majorhavoc on January 23, 2024, 01:47:36 PM

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 01:11:46 PMJack Jennings, a British WW2 veteran, passed away on January 22nd, 2024, at the age of 104.

He is thought to be the last survivor of the Burma Death Railway, a structure built by 60,000 Allied POWs during WW2 for the Japanese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jennings_(veteran)

Wow, I just took a deep dive into the Burma Railway starting with that wiki link.  Assuming this is the same wartime railway featured in the Alec Guinness classic Bridge Over River Kwai?

It may be the same one, but I'm not entirely sure.

https://www.historyhit.com/locations/kwai-river-bridge/

railway bridge number 277 in June 1943, allowing the track to cross what is today known as the Khwae Noi River, and which has become recognised worldwide as the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Quote from: MacWa77ace on January 23, 2024, 02:44:52 PM

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 02:29:37 PM

Quote from: majorhavoc on January 23, 2024, 01:47:36 PM

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on January 23, 2024, 01:11:46 PMJack Jennings, a British WW2 veteran, passed away on January 22nd, 2024, at the age of 104.

He is thought to be the last survivor of the Burma Death Railway, a structure built by 60,000 Allied POWs during WW2 for the Japanese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jennings_(veteran)

Wow, I just took a deep dive into the Burma Railway starting with that wiki link.  Assuming this is the same wartime railway featured in the Alec Guinness classic Bridge Over River Kwai?

It may be the same one, but I'm not entirely sure.

https://www.historyhit.com/locations/kwai-river-bridge/

railway bridge number 277 in June 1943, allowing the track to cross what is today known as the Khwae Noi River, and which has become recognised worldwide as the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Oh, ok. So it is the infamous Bridge on the River Kwai.

Light a candle for her. One of my favorites.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/melanie-singer-performed-woodstock-topped-205756565.html

Carl Weathers, actor best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies and Dillon in "Predator" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed away February 1st, 2024 at the age of 76.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Weathers

Bob Beckwith, NYFD fireman who helped with the search and rescue during 9/11, passed away at age 90 on February 4th, 2024.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Beckwith

Toby Keith ---cancer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/country-singer-toby-keith-dies-at-age-62/ar-BB1hQwnp?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=54dc38d12fe64113a3a77d52e8cd638b&ei=24
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/country-singer-toby-keith-dead-62