Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....
Did anyone else notice that cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky died on 27 March? The 11th person in space, and holder of the record for the longest spaceflight, orbiting the globe 82 times in 5 days.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Pete Towshend's acoustic cover version of the English Beat song "Save it for Later." It was played again tonight on WFUV but this time to honor the recent death of EB frontman "Ranking Roger":
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707147386/ranking-roger-frontman-for-the-english-beat-dies-at-56
bub said:
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Pete Towshend's acoustic cover version of the English Beat song "Save it for Later." It was played again tonight on WFUV but this time to honor the recent death of EB frontman "Ranking Roger":
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707147386/ranking-roger-frontman-for-the-english-beat-dies-at-56
i was so sure we'd mentioned this loss to music lovers here, but I couldn't find the reference. Perhaps in a different thread? I thought I remembered ridski saying how upset he was...
David Winters. Actually British playing a NYC Street kid in both the stage and movie versions of West Side Story. Dancer and choreographer in dozens of movies and tv shows.
Richard Barnes, of early computing fame, has died: he was just over 98 years, and the Harkwell Dekatron computer first went online in 1951. It’s still working.
This was last week, but Georgia Engel, most famous for playing Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” died. Recently, she was in a show at Paper Mill. I never put it together, but this tribute mentions how her co-star and good friend Betty White borrowed from Engel when playing Rose on “The Golden Girls.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/opinions/georgia-engel-mary-tyler-moore-drexler/index.html
bub said:
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Pete Towshend's acoustic cover version of the English Beat song "Save it for Later." It was played again tonight on WFUV but this time to honor the recent death of EB frontman "Ranking Roger":
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707147386/ranking-roger-frontman-for-the-english-beat-dies-at-56
Man, I just saw this and that sucks. I loved Rankin Roger. General Public defined my sophomore year of high school.
John Singleton, first Black director to get an academy award nomination: Boyz N the Hood. Age 51.
Peter Mayhew, of Star Wars' Chewbacca fame, has died, aged 74.
Full reports are just being announced.
joanne said:
Peter Mayhew, of Star Wars' Chewbacca fame, has died, aged 74.
Full reports are just being announced.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48142765
Well, this made me cry.
And I wish the embed function actually worked here.He knew. https://t.co/sbixEmncx1
— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) May" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/1124160300264099840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2019
[Edited to add] My bad, I saw a "Roger Moore" news item (don't know why it was there) and didn't check the date.
Still think "The Saint" was underrated compared to his Bond.
nohero, Sir Roger left us 2 years ago.
Sorry about that. For some reason it floated by on my screen while I was doing something else, and I didn't register the year.
yeah, I was tricked too 
Did I hear earlier in the week that the Yoda actor also died?
I took it as a meme connoting Mr. Mayhew’s place in the heavens. I think I still will.
joanne said:
yeah, I was tricked too
Did I hear earlier in the week that the Yoda actor also died?
Frank Oz is still alive.
Relieved to hear that. Thank you!
It must have been someone else, but I can’t think who...
joanne said:
Relieved to hear that. Thank you!
It must have been someone else, but I can’t think who...
Shane Rimmer, possibly? He's in A New Hope for a split second. Probably best known for playing Commander Carter in The Spy Who Loved Me and the voice of Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds.
I knew that he had gone 
No, this was later news than his passing.
We've been making Rocky and Bulkwinkle/Boris and Natasha references all week, in this household, so I looked up the voices from there too. But it wasn't one of them. There's enough sadness in the world; if I'm meant to remember, the person's name will come back.
I'm wondering if the BBC archives 'randomly' reminded us about Sir Roger partly because his anniversary is later in May, and partly because of the recent PR over the new film? (I didn't pay much attention, I think it was a couple of weeks ago). I always preferred The Saint, I have to admit.
Harold Lederman, great old timely boxing voice, 79
Peggy Lipton of the Mod Squad and ex wife of Quincy Jones, 72
RIP Doris Day, 97. https://apnews.com/b9a04d9ab2ce4276b2f6bdb6b39af585
Doris Day Dies at 97
How many of us here remember the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies?
Teacher’s Pet, with Clark Gable, is the proverbial “overlooked gem.”
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Now I really am heartbroken. I loved Scott’s voice, even though I knew Scott was a puppet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47750524
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89
Shane Rimmer, his voice actor, has died. Shane also acted in James Bond films and other well known roles.