The Obituary Thread

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Sam Lloyd (56) Ted from Scrubs.

Howard Finkel WWE ring announcer. He did almost every major event from the early 80’s to mid aughts.

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NFL coaching legend, Hall of Famer Don Shula has passed at age 90.

The winningest coach in pro football history, he has the distinction of being the only coach to lead his team to a world championship after posting an undefeated season.

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Roy Horn, 75, of Siegfried and Roy - Covid related

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Little Richard (87) no cause reported.

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Little Richard's influence can not be understated. On Rock n Roll's Mount Rushmore.

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Brian Howe, the lead singer of Bad Company who took over in the 80s for Paul Rodgers, passed as well from cardiac arrest. He was 66.

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Jerry Stiller passed at 92 from natural causes.

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Fred Willard (86), natural causes. Whenever he popped up in something he always made it just a bit funnier.

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Fred Willard (86), natural causes. Whenever he popped up in something he always made it just a bit funnier.

Completely agree. He was the rare performer that made generating laughs look so effortless and could deliver no matter what the quality of the material he had to work with. It's been great to see so many prominent comedians recognize his gifts since the news of passing was made public yesterday afternoon.

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Filmmaker Lynn Shelton has passed away at age 54. Some of us might not know the name but she was known in the mumblecore scene and directed a lot of television.

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One of the greatest French actors passed away recently, Michel Piccoli, aged 94. He broke out in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris in the early 60's, and soon became the favorite actor of some of the best European filmmakers, Bunuel, Ferreri, Sautet...
Ironically, Sautet's regular screenwriter and dialogist, Jean-Loup Dabadie, died a few days later.

Piccoli and Dabadie were both part of Sautet's masterpieces from the 70's. If you have never seen "Les choses de la vie" (The Things of Life) or "César et Rosalie" (Cesar and Rosalie), two of the greatest films ever made, both directed by Sautet and written by Dabadie, the former with Piccoli and Romy Schneider in the lead, the latter with Yves Montand, Romy Schneider and Samy Frey, Piccoli participating as the narrator, you have to watch them.

Most recently, Piccoli starred in Nanni Moretti's Habemus Papam.

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Celebrities we lost in May:

Little Richard, 87, music legend
Jerry Stiller, 92, comedy legend
Michel Piccoli, 94, French actor
Fred Willard, 86, comedian/actor
Richard Herd, 87, character actor
Anthony James, 77, character actor
Brian Howe, 66, singer, Bad Company
Jorge Santana, 68, Mexican guitarist (Carlos's brother)

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The guy from Gymkata, as well as decorated gymnast, Kurt Thomas, has passed away at 64.

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He’s from my alma mater. He was the top rated male gymnast the year we boycotted the Olympics. If not for politics he’d have been our third medalist.

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Sir Ian Holm, perhaps best known for his role as Bilbo Baggins in the LOTR series, has passed away at age 88 from Parkinson's disease.

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”