Frank Thornton, Captain Peacock from Are You Being Served?
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...or-thornton-dies/story-e6frfmyi-1226600226530
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...or-thornton-dies/story-e6frfmyi-1226600226530
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kxk
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Aww 19 year old daredevil, too young
His poor Mum, must have been so hard watching him do this stuff.
A WORLD champion freestyle motorcycle rider who crashed his bike while making a training jump yesterday has died. Tyrone Gilks, 19, a confessed adrenalin junkie, was training to break the 94.49m record for the world's longest ramp-to-ramp dirt jump on a ...
His poor Mum, must have been so hard watching him do this stuff.
A WORLD champion freestyle motorcycle rider who crashed his bike while making a training jump yesterday has died. Tyrone Gilks, 19, a confessed adrenalin junkie, was training to break the 94.49m record for the world's longest ramp-to-ramp dirt jump on a ...
tickytoc
Active Member
James Herbert author horror novels
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ubbed-giant-popular-fiction-dies-aged-69.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ubbed-giant-popular-fiction-dies-aged-69.html
tickytoc
Active Member
British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for his roles in Harry Potter and the cult film Withnail & I, has died aged 65.
The portly star of stage and screen, one of Britain's best loved character actors, died on Thursday from complications following heart surgery, his agent Simon Beresford said.
Griffiths will be forever remembered by fans of cult classic Withnail & I as the amorous Uncle Monty, although he reached his biggest audience as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
His roles also included a cookery-loving detective in the TV series Pie In The Sky.
Notable screen roles
Harry Potter (2001-2010) - Uncle Vernon
Hugo (2011) - Monsieur Frick
The History Boys (2006) - Hector
Pie in the Sky (1994-1997) - Henry Crabbe
The Naked Gun 2.5 (1991) - Dr Meinheimer
Withnail & I (1987) - Monty
Daniel Radcliffe, who played the boy wizard in the blockbuster Potter series, led the tributes to Griffiths who he said had offered him "encouragement, tutelage and humour".
"Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," Radcliffe said in a statement.
The first was in August 2000, when Radcliffe was filming his first ever shot as Harry. "I was nervous and he made me feel at ease," the actor recalled.
"Seven years later, we embarked on Equus together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humour made it a joy," Radcliffe said.
"In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence. I am proud to say I knew him."
Griffiths was born on July 31, 1947 in Yorkshire in northern England, the son of a steelworker.
His parents were both deaf so he had to learn sign language at an early age.
He left school at 15 but later went back into education to study drama, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Early film credits included Chariots of Fire, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Gandhi, before he landed a starring role in the 1987 comedy Withnail & I.
Griffiths played the predatory gay uncle of Withnail, an out-of-work, alcoholic actor played by Richard E Grant, in a film now regarded as a British classic.
Beresford said his client "brightened my days and enriched the life of anyone he came into contact with".
"Richard gave acting a good name. He was a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors. He will be greatly missed," he said in a statement.
Nicholas Hytner, who directed Griffiths in one of his biggest hits in Britain, The History Boys, said he was "the life of every party".
Griffiths won several awards for his theatre role as an inspirational teacher in The History Boys in London and New York, and later won a Bafta nomination for his role in the film version.
"His performance in The History Boys was quite overwhelming: a masterpiece of wit, delicacy, mischief and desolation, often simultaneously," Hytner said.
"But that was just one small part of a career that spanned Shakespeare, cutting-edge new plays and major work in film and television."
The actor was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2007.
The portly star of stage and screen, one of Britain's best loved character actors, died on Thursday from complications following heart surgery, his agent Simon Beresford said.
Griffiths will be forever remembered by fans of cult classic Withnail & I as the amorous Uncle Monty, although he reached his biggest audience as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
His roles also included a cookery-loving detective in the TV series Pie In The Sky.
Notable screen roles
Harry Potter (2001-2010) - Uncle Vernon
Hugo (2011) - Monsieur Frick
The History Boys (2006) - Hector
Pie in the Sky (1994-1997) - Henry Crabbe
The Naked Gun 2.5 (1991) - Dr Meinheimer
Withnail & I (1987) - Monty
Daniel Radcliffe, who played the boy wizard in the blockbuster Potter series, led the tributes to Griffiths who he said had offered him "encouragement, tutelage and humour".
"Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," Radcliffe said in a statement.
The first was in August 2000, when Radcliffe was filming his first ever shot as Harry. "I was nervous and he made me feel at ease," the actor recalled.
"Seven years later, we embarked on Equus together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humour made it a joy," Radcliffe said.
"In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence. I am proud to say I knew him."
Griffiths was born on July 31, 1947 in Yorkshire in northern England, the son of a steelworker.
His parents were both deaf so he had to learn sign language at an early age.
He left school at 15 but later went back into education to study drama, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Early film credits included Chariots of Fire, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Gandhi, before he landed a starring role in the 1987 comedy Withnail & I.
Griffiths played the predatory gay uncle of Withnail, an out-of-work, alcoholic actor played by Richard E Grant, in a film now regarded as a British classic.
Beresford said his client "brightened my days and enriched the life of anyone he came into contact with".
"Richard gave acting a good name. He was a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors. He will be greatly missed," he said in a statement.
Nicholas Hytner, who directed Griffiths in one of his biggest hits in Britain, The History Boys, said he was "the life of every party".
Griffiths won several awards for his theatre role as an inspirational teacher in The History Boys in London and New York, and later won a Bafta nomination for his role in the film version.
"His performance in The History Boys was quite overwhelming: a masterpiece of wit, delicacy, mischief and desolation, often simultaneously," Hytner said.
"But that was just one small part of a career that spanned Shakespeare, cutting-edge new plays and major work in film and television."
The actor was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2007.
A bit on his background:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ichard-Griffiths-star-giant-sized-talent.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ichard-Griffiths-star-giant-sized-talent.html
Former state minister, Ernie Bridge:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...cting-asbestosis/story-fnhocxo3-1226610212676
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...cting-asbestosis/story-fnhocxo3-1226610212676
eliza
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Chris Bailey - Angels bassist
http://bigpondmusic.com/news/article/7728/the-angels-bassist-chris-bailey-loses-battle-with-cancer?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_R1_TOPSTORY_the-angels-bassist-chris-bailey-loses-battle-with-cancer_040413
Jane Henson - Jim's wife
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Entertainment/2013/04/03/Jane_Henson_of_Muppet_family_fame_dies_859990.html?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_R1_FEATURE_Jane_Henson_of_Muppet_family_fame_dies_030413
http://bigpondmusic.com/news/article/7728/the-angels-bassist-chris-bailey-loses-battle-with-cancer?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_R1_TOPSTORY_the-angels-bassist-chris-bailey-loses-battle-with-cancer_040413
Jane Henson - Jim's wife
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Entertainment/2013/04/03/Jane_Henson_of_Muppet_family_fame_dies_859990.html?cid=ZBP_NEWS_L_R1_FEATURE_Jane_Henson_of_Muppet_family_fame_dies_030413
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Roger Ebert Dead: Legendary Film Critic Dies At Age 70
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-dead_n_3016769.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-dead_n_3016769.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died.
The Press Association has filed an obituary from Chris Moncrieff, its former political editor. Here is how it starts.
Margaret Thatcher was the woman who, virtually single-handed and in the space of one tumultuous decade, transformed a nation.
In the view of her many admirers, she thrust a strike-infested half-pace Britain back among the front-runners in the commanding peaks of the industrial nations of the world.
Her detractors, many of them just as vociferous, saw her as the personification of an uncaring new political philosophy known by both sides as Thatcherism.
Tireless, fearless, unshakeable and always in command, she was Britain's first woman Prime Minister - and the first leader to win three General Elections in a row.
Mrs Thatcher, who became Baroness Thatcher, resigned as Prime Minister in November 1990 after a year in which her fortunes plummeted.
It was a year in which she faced a series of damaging resignations from the Cabinet, her own political judgments were publicly denounced by her own colleagues, catastrophic by-election humiliations, internal party strife, and a sense in the country that people had had enough of her after 11 years in power.
But history will almost certainly proclaim her as one of the greatest British peacetime leaders.
Her supporters believe she put the drive back into the British people.
And as she transformed the nation - attempting to release the grip of the state on massive industries and public services alike - she strode the earth as one of the most influential, talked-about, listened-to and dominant statesmen of the Western world.
When Argentina invaded the Falklands, she despatched a task force to the South Atlantic which drove the enemy off the islands in an incomparable military operation 8,000 miles from home.
She successfully defied Arthur Scargill's nationwide and year-long miners' strike, which threatened to cripple Britain's entire economic base.
Her triumphant achievement of power in May 1979 signalled the end of the era when trade union leaders trooped in and out of 10, Downing Street, haggling and bargaining with her Labour predecessors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/08/miliband-clegg-local-elections-cameron-madrid
The Press Association has filed an obituary from Chris Moncrieff, its former political editor. Here is how it starts.
Margaret Thatcher was the woman who, virtually single-handed and in the space of one tumultuous decade, transformed a nation.
In the view of her many admirers, she thrust a strike-infested half-pace Britain back among the front-runners in the commanding peaks of the industrial nations of the world.
Her detractors, many of them just as vociferous, saw her as the personification of an uncaring new political philosophy known by both sides as Thatcherism.
Tireless, fearless, unshakeable and always in command, she was Britain's first woman Prime Minister - and the first leader to win three General Elections in a row.
Mrs Thatcher, who became Baroness Thatcher, resigned as Prime Minister in November 1990 after a year in which her fortunes plummeted.
It was a year in which she faced a series of damaging resignations from the Cabinet, her own political judgments were publicly denounced by her own colleagues, catastrophic by-election humiliations, internal party strife, and a sense in the country that people had had enough of her after 11 years in power.
But history will almost certainly proclaim her as one of the greatest British peacetime leaders.
Her supporters believe she put the drive back into the British people.
And as she transformed the nation - attempting to release the grip of the state on massive industries and public services alike - she strode the earth as one of the most influential, talked-about, listened-to and dominant statesmen of the Western world.
When Argentina invaded the Falklands, she despatched a task force to the South Atlantic which drove the enemy off the islands in an incomparable military operation 8,000 miles from home.
She successfully defied Arthur Scargill's nationwide and year-long miners' strike, which threatened to cripple Britain's entire economic base.
Her triumphant achievement of power in May 1979 signalled the end of the era when trade union leaders trooped in and out of 10, Downing Street, haggling and bargaining with her Labour predecessors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/08/miliband-clegg-local-elections-cameron-madrid
derkomai
no hubris intended
[video=youtube;okHGCz6xxiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw[/video]
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Are they rioting now? Thought they were just partying.And the hate runs deep - my sis was there during poll tax riots, and the tales she tells...........are grim of UK then.
But how hilarious is a sidebar - dim Cher fans thought it was...That-Cher-has died.....for minute or two.
But how hilarious is a sidebar - dim Cher fans thought it was...That-Cher-has died.....for minute or two.
From: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/14/give-the-iron-lady-a-state-funeral/#more-84152
From here: http://news.sky.com/story/1077904/thatcher-funeral-not-over-the-top-says-maude
Dear Lord, please pass on my "thank you for your service to Great Britian, Freedom, and thus Humanity" to your now "brought home" servant, Margaret Thatcher.
Onya Maggie. That you were and still are hated by The Left so much only goes to show how correct and in the light you were and how far into the dark they have chosen to both stray and stay.
regarDS
...in an interview once Robin Williams said that he grew up watching Jonathan Winters and that he idolised him... he based a lot of his own improvisational mannerisms on Jonathan's actions... that's why when Mork and Mindy became such a big hit and Robin had the bargaining power at his feet instead of being 'just an actor doing what he had to do' with no say in the show when he first started he demanded that Jonathan should be included in his show or he wouldn't make any more episodes... when you look at Jonathan in full action you can see the similarities between the two of them... well I can anyway... RIP Jonathan Winters... cheers.