The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The Most Obvious Connectuions To Our Beloved Genre , As Those Folks Will Tend To Get A Solo Thread , Admittedly..." omnibus thread .
Directly , Cooper played Perry White in the Salkind/Reeve series of Superman movies , and , as per Wikipedia , about the last thing he did in the directing of episodic TV series that occupied much of his later working years were episodes of the Salkind Superboy series...
Cooper also starred in the CBS series Hennessy ( Probably the subject of a couple Dell FOUR COLOR COMICS issues anyway , wasn't it ????????? ) , enthused over by our Cmdr. Benson , and another B&W-era series , The People's Choice .
In pre-TV days movies with ____ ____ made them something of a team
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Here are the celebrities and well-known personages noted individually in the increasing depressing "Movies & TV" forum since August 20, 2023.
AUG 2023: Bob Barker
SEP 2023: David McCallum
OCT 2023:
Phyllis Coates
Mark Goddard
Suzanne Somers
DEC 2023:
Norman Lear
André Braugher
JAN 2024:
David Soul
Joyce Randolph
MAR 2024: Carl Weathers
APR 2024: Ron Harper
MAY 2024:
Jeannie Epper
Roger Corman
JUL 2024: Bob Newhart
SEP 2024:
James Darren
James Earl Jones
OCT 2024: Ron Ely
Now that Emmerkeith Davyjack in no longer with us, perhaps the title of this topic could be changed to "Rest in Peace" or something.
I seldom feel moved to comment on the various "death threads" on this board, but this one has moved me.
'Our Gang' child actor, Sidney Kibrick, dead at 97
Most of the "Our Gang" actors died young, many of them tragically, but here's one that makes me feel good that he "beat the odds" and lived so long.
HERE'S TO YOU, Sidney Kibrick!
RIP Erich von Daniken Geez, I'd almost forgotten him, but he was a big deal back when I was a kid.
I read Chariots of the Gods in high school, at the height of Danikenmania. When I finished it, I thought, "Geez, that's it? That's all he's got?" But yeah, he was a big deal back then.
I bought a beat up paperback copy about 20 years ago. Haven't read it.
Now that Emmerkeith Davyjack in no longer with us, perhaps the title of this topic could be changed to "Rest in Peace" or something.
...or maybe "Emmerkeith Davyjack's Celebrity Deaths." I think he'd like that.
I like Jeff's suggestion.
And lo, 'tis done
Scott Adams is dead. The sad thing is, at one point I was a huge Dilbert fan - both of the comic strip and the animated series - and I hate to speak ill of the dead, but then he got hateful towards the end of his life (Or maybe just became more public about hatefulness that was always there?). The wild thing is that if he'd have died twenty-five years ago, he might be remembered today as the creator of a hugely popular comic strip, instead of for all the evil stuff that he said in his later years.
Yeah, it's too bad he was revealed to be such a horse's neck later in life. In addition to a slipcased set of his Dilbert work, I also have his three books, The Dilbert Principle*, The Dilbert Future** and The Joy of Work***.
*(A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions)
**(Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century)
***(Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-workers)
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