The 2024 Grim Reaper Thread

[FrostyWinnipeg]

This is the thread for all things dead.

Could be a bad year for Mary Poppins fans...

 

Edited June 19, 2024 by FrostyWinnipeg

[iHeart]

https://tvline.com/news/david-soul-cause-of-death-starsky-hutch-dies-obituary-1235108873/

[kelownabomberfan]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Entertainment/465778/Speed-Racer-star-Christian-Oliver-dies-in-a-plane-crash#465778

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/06/caddyshack-tron-star-cindy-morgan-dead-dies/

[MOBomberFan]

Burke Dales, former CGY punter, GC champ and 2 time CFL AllStar has passed away

Yikes he was only 46

Edited January 7, 2024 by MOBomberFan
typo

[iHeart]

Appendix cancer strikes again (and I won't be surprised if his death will end The Cleaning Lady since he had a rather major role in the show)

https://tvline.com/news/adan-canto-cause-of-death-cancer-dead-cleaning-lady-1235110479/

Edited January 9, 2024 by iHeart

[SpeedFlex27]

I remember Glynn Johns. She was in a lot of Brirish films in the 50's & 60's. I've seen The Sundowners a number of times, including Grade 11 or 12 when we studied the novel in English class. Then later we got to see the movie in the lunchroom at Churchill High which starred Johns & Robert MItchum, Peter Ustinov & Deborah Kerr.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ed-broadbent-dies-1.7080936

[iHeart]

I didn't know there was a cast member that was still alive

https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/14/honeymooners-joyce-randolph-dead-dies-trixie-norton-jackie-gleason/

[iHeart]

oh man this one kind of hurts, I'm glad I got to have sampled Today's Special when Treehouse TV aired it in Year One, I spent my last week of Summer Break 1998 (This was back when School started at the end of August and not a few days after Labour Day) binging stuff on Treehouse for some reason, a part of me wishes I didn't considering that YTV was at the Tail end of the You Rule Era (the Keep it Weird era scared me off it was just too much for me)

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/todays-special-actor-activist-nerene-virgin-dies-at-78/article_8977f67e-b660-11ee-8203-1f88c4efa4fe.html

Edited January 19, 2024 by iHeart

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications at age 29. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/shawn-barber-canadian-pole-vault-record-holder-dies-29-medical-complic-rcna134606

[kelownabomberfan]

Norman Jewison, acclaimed director of 'In the Heat of the Night’ and 'Moonstruck,' dead at 97 (msn.com)

He was the speaker at my convocation when I graduated from University of Calgary in 1993.

[iHeart]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/dexter-scott-king-son-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-62-rcna135109

[iHeart]

https://deadline.com/2024/01/frank-farian-dies-founder-milli-vanilli-boney-m-1235802275/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://deadline.com/2024/01/gary-graham-dead-1235802196/

[iHeart]

https://tvline.com/news/charles-osgood-dead-cbs-sunday-morning-host-dies-1235138138/

[iHeart]

https://deadline.com/2024/01/melanie-dead-1235803995/

 

[iHeart]

https://people.com/chita-rivera-dead-at-91-broadway-star-7971697

wait what am I thinking!?

 

https://youtu.be/wUQlQGH1fhc?si=ZxDYtucdWLDYJJbF

Edited January 30, 2024 by iHeart

[FrostyWinnipeg]

57 minutes ago, iHeart said:

wait what am I thinking!?

[iHeart]

I meant I questioned why I was putting West Side Story in there while I could be showing one of the things she won a Tony award for (Yeah I was surprised when I found out that she didn't win for that.....nor did the show win for best musical)

Edited January 30, 2024 by iHeart

[TrueBlue4ever]

Were you thinking of Rita Moreno?

[iHeart]

16 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Were you thinking of Rita Moreno?

no she wasn't in the original production she was in the original film version hell a couple of years back she was at the Oscars cheering Ariana De Bose on when she won (and if it were Rita Moreno I probably would have shared her version of America, plus well, any random episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego)

Edited January 30, 2024 by iHeart

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/

[JCon]

3 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/

So many memorable and legendary performances from Carl. RIP. 

[JCon]

I did not know this.