2025 - IN MEMORIAM - MOVIES & TV

[The Natural]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd0yn5gyndo

RIP Prunella Scales, 93. Scales memorably played Sybil Fawlty in the classic Fawlty Towers.

Edited October 28 by The Natural

[The Natural]

 

[odessasteps]

 

[odessasteps]

RIP Diane Ladd, age 89. 

interesting she played Flo in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Polly Holliday jus t passed away in September.

for those who don’t know, Laura Dern is her daughter.

Edited November 4 by odessasteps

[Curt McGirt]

"SANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

God I loved her in Wild At Heart. 

RIP

[Curt McGirt]

[odessasteps]

 

[Curt McGirt]

Oh shit now I was just reminded how awesome she was in CARNOSAUR. A buddy of mine took my VHS copy and they made a sample of her dialogue of it for one of the songs on their record. 

[odessasteps]

 

[odessasteps]

RIP sally kirkland, age 84.

[Curt McGirt]

RIP Udo Kier

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/udo-kier-dead-own-private-idaho-andy-warhol-frankenstein-1236590259

Edited November 24 by Curt McGirt

[Eivion]

I feel like a jinx now as I was just looking him up last night to see if he was still alive.

Edited November 24 by Eivion

[Contentious C]

The world could stand to be more boring, but not like that.

[J.H.]

Danny Seagreen, the first live action Spider-Man,passed away. He was 81. Seagreen was also Muppeteer who worked on Sesame Street 

James

[colonial]

Danny Seagren, the first live-action Spider-Man, has died at 83.

When did he play Spidey? On The Electric Company, of course!

Also a puppeteer and puppet maker for Sesame Street.

[odessasteps]

I love the movie version of R&G. 

[odessasteps]

 

Edited November 29 by odessasteps

[Robert S]

My favorite scene is when Claudius stumbles out of the theater during the play-within-a-play, Oldman's character (Wikipedia claims he played Rosencrantz, spoiling the joke that even they don't really know who is who) says "It wasn't that bad."

And I just read that someone wrote a play where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern realize that they are characters in a play called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", that's really brilliant.

[odessasteps]

I love the meta of the play within the play with the play. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

This is how I found out Tom Stoppard had died 

 

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

 

 

 

[SirFozzie]

The original and best Shang Tsung

 

[The Natural]

I'll remember Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa for bringing Shang Tsung to life in Mortal Kombat (1995). "Your soul is mine!" Tagawa's performance was so well received, he returned to voice the character in Mortal Kombat 11 videogame. RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

[The Natural]

 

RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

[Zimbra]

Peter Greene, who played Zed in Pulp Fiction and a bunch of other scumbags, mostly, passed away.