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A great producer. RIP Dino De Laurentiis
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R.I.P. Dino
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Terrible, terrible news. A big loss.
Army of Darkness, Dune, the Conan films, the Hannibal films, Serpico, Dead Zone, Flash Gordon, Barbarella, Death Wish, King Kong, Silver Bullet, Battle of the Bulge, Amityville II... A really sad day for fans worldwide. RIP Dino De Laurentiis. |
A legend indeed...RIP.
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RIP Dino De Laurentiis. A great loss for world cinema indeed.
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Vila i frid. :(
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very sad:(
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Last of the greats, I often looked forward to his name fading up on the screen, just pure class.:cool:
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Ugh! Just saw the confirmation and I am struck speechless...
'Queen of horror' Pitt dies aged 73 (UKPA) – 32 minutes ago Actress Ingrid Pitt, dubbed Hammer Films' Queen of Horror, has died aged 73, her daughter said. The Polish-born star collapsed in London last week while on her way to an event hosted by members of her fan club.The Polish-born star passed away at a hospital in south London after collapsing a few days ago. She was regarded by many fans as the queen of Hammer Horror films. The star's death comes weeks after film-maker Roy Ward Baker, who directed Pitt in The Vampire Lovers, died at the age of 93. Pitt's daughter Stephanie Blake told the BBC News website that her mother's death had come as a "huge surprise". After the actress collapsed recently, doctors had told her was she suffering from heart failure. "She could be incredibly generous, loving, and she'll be sorely missed," Mrs Blake said. She added that she wanted her mother to be remembered as the Countess Dracula with the "wonderful teeth and the wonderful bosom". Official Hammer historian Marcus Hearn paid tribute to the star, calling her a "talented actress and fine writer". He added: "She was partly responsible for ushering in a bold and brazen era of sexually explicitly horror films in the 1970s, but that should not denigrate her abilities as an actress." A good friend of the actress, Mr Hearn said she was "gloriously uninhibited" and "great fun to be with". Although she was not the first female star of a Hammer film, Mr Hearn said she had always been "very proud" of becoming the first prominent female protagonist in a Hammer after her role in The Vampire Lovers. "All fans of Hammer and of British horror are going to miss her terribly," he said. She began her career with fairly minor roles in several Spanish films in the mid-1960s. But in 1968 she landed a supporting role in war movie Where Eagles Dare, appearing alongside Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. The actress got her breakthrough role two years later in the horror thriller The Vampire Lovers, which was a box office success. Several Hammer movies followed, firmly establishing her as one of the key women of British horror of the 1970s. Her other film credits included The Wicker Man (1973), Who Dares Wins (1982), Smiley's People (1982) and Wild Geese II (1985). Pitt made regular appearances at horror conventions and penned several books about her career in the genre. A really, really sad day for the genre. The flag of HDC will fly at half-mast till the end of the month, in honor. R.I.P. Ingrid. You take with you several broken hearts, and plenty of memories... http://img.listal.com/image/876834/6...ngrid-pitt.jpg |
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RIP Ingrid Pitt
The legendary Queen of Horror, Ingrid Pitt, passed away today at the age of 73
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One of the greats.
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Terrible news. RIP.
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R.I.P. Ingrid Pitt
Source: Press Association November 23, 2010 Hammer and British horror films staple Ingrid Pitt has passed away at the age of 73 due to heart problems. Here's the lowdown from the Press Association. She will be missed... The Polish-born star collapsed in London last week while on her way to an event hosted by members of her fan club. Her daughter Steffanie Pitt said she was "a fantastic woman". Pitt was best known as a seductive screen siren in a string of British horror films including The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula. She also had a minor part in the 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man. Steffanie Pitt said: "She passed away this morning. It was heart trouble. "She had a couple of bad years, health-wise, but she had fought through. "Anyone who knew my mother would say she was incredibly feisty and determined to make a good fist of everything she wanted to do." Robin Hardy, the director of The Wicker Man, said he had "very good memories" of Pitt. He said: "She was a very attractive person in every sense. She was a perfectly good actress but a very decent person as well, not that those two things don't often go together." |
A terrible loss. One of the greatest scream queens ever.
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Oh, I am so sorry to hear this. One of the very best. RIP Ingrid Pitt
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A terrible loss indeed. R.I.P Ingrid Pitt.
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Ingrid Pitt Dead
I'm a very big fan of this fine lady, I'm going to miss her lots
Roy Ward Baker also died a few weeks ago, he was 93, what sad news for horror fans. http://www.horror.com/forum/picture....&pictureid=528 |
Throbbing Gristle and Coil’s Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson dies aged 55
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No joke this time guys...
Leslie Nielsen http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertain...from-pneumonia R.I.P Thanks for the laughs. He got 84 years, that's an alright run. :( Dammit. |
double fuck
Leslie Nielsen, the actor best known for starring in such comedies as Airplane! and the Naked Gun film franchise, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84. “We are sadden by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60-year career in motion pictures and television," said a statement from Nielsen's family released through his rep. After Airplane! became a hit, the film's directors -- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker -- wanted to take the film's slapstyle style of comedy to TV. They asked Nielsen to play the lead role in their new series "Police Squad!" Not very "Happy Days" Tom Bosley, the good-natured patriarch on ABC's Happy Days for more than a decade who served as an American father figure for millions of television viewers, died early Tuesday at a hospital near his Palm Springs home. He was 83. The family said that Bosley died of heart failure. His agent, Sheryl Abrams, said Bosley also was battling lung cancer. Bosley played Howard Cunningham -- or "Mr. C.," as the kids on the show called him -- on more than 250 episodes of Garry Marshall's "Happy Days," which ran on Tuesday nights from 1974-84. An idealized vision of American life set in 1950-60s Milwaukee, the comedy was No. 1 in the ratings in 1976-77. TV Guide ranked Bosley's character No. 9 on its list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" in 2004. Bosley followed Happy Days with a recurring role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in Murder, She Wrote for four seasons, then played the title character on The Father Dowling Mysteries from 1989-91. Other TV credits include regular roles in the early 1970s on The Debbie Reynolds Show and The Sandy Duncan Show. In Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, a 1972-74 animated series, he provided the voice of a conservative dad. Bosley also performed in such movie fare as Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) and Mixed Company (1974). He had a role in the Jennifer Lopez film The Back-up Plan, released this year. http://images.ctvdigital.com/images/...9/nakedgun.jpghttp://www.bergproperties.com/blog/w...m-bosley-i.jpg |
Damn :(
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Ingrid Pitt, Leslie Nielsen, and Tom Bosley in the space of a week. Truly awful.
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RIP Leslie Neilsen,Tom Bosley,Ingrid Pitt
and now I just heard Irvin Kershner director of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back died :( RIP http://www.towerofyouth.org/filmgrp/1ff/irvkershner.jpg |
R.I.P to one of the modern innovators of physical comedy.
Yes it's true. The legends are dropping like flies. :( Irvin Kershner, the Hollywood journeyman who directed the darkest – and arguably best – Star Wars adventure of them all has died after a long illness. He was 87. Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Kershner made his feature debut with the 1958 teen thriller Stakeout on Dope Street. He worked steadily throughout the 1960s and 70s until George Lucas, impressed by his work on the Faye Dunaway thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, hired him to direct 1980's The Empire Strikes Back. While the director was seen by some as an unlikely choice to oversee the second instalment of the Star Wars franchise, Kershner's sombre, character-driven approach paid handsome dividends. "I like to fill up the frame with the characters' faces," he once explained. "There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face." Following the success of The Empire Strikes Back, Kershner went on to direct Sean Connery in 1983's unofficial James Bond outing Never Say Never Again. His other credits include A Fine Madness, Raid on Entebbe, The Return of a Man Called Horse and Robocop 2. An occasional actor, he also played the role of Zebedee, father of James and John, in Martin Scorsese's controversial The Last Temptation of Christ. R.I.P. to the man who made (arguably) one of the biggest and best sci-fi films ever made in history... It's been a real sad week so far... |
r.i.p leslie neilsen a legend now dead why do you do this to us my lord! and naked gun 4 was announced a year ago. Now what.
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Damn Irvin Kershner too :(
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Wow...shit couple of days.
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30 years ago today
http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/lennonnyclg.jpg most of you weren't even born yet. |
I was about a month and a half away from being born...a few of his songs
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I was 11 years old at the time, but I remember hearing the news clearly. Such an awful tragedy.
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R.I.P. Darby.
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FANGORIA reports the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin.
The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72. Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin—a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush and haunting works that were often ghettoized alongside the efforts of some of his more crass contemporaries and yet almost always offered something more, something richer and more melancholy. With films like THE NUDE VAMPIRE, REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE, LIPS OF BLOOD, FASCINATION, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL and THE GRAPES OF DEATH, Rollin left behind a body of work as infatuated with spurting blood as it was enamored of the curves of the female form, often depicting both within the same frame. Like his colleague Jess Franco (with whom he unofficially “collaborated on VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD and ZOMBIE LAKE), Rollin employed a variety of pseudonyms, depending on the quality of his work and the genres they fell under. Some of those nom de plume pictures included several works of hardcore pornography, a strain of cinema the director was never fully comfortable making. Loved by legions, misunderstood by many and sadly ignored by the rest, Rollin's work is widely available on DVD and is ready to be rediscovered. Within the confines of his catalogue you will find beauty, surrealism, sex, sadness and very real human truths hiding within a fantastical world. There really was no one quite like him. Deepest sympathies and respect to his friends and family. To learn more about Jean Rollin’s legacy, visit the official site - http://www.shockingimages.com/rollin |
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Yet another legend of a genre falls...
Blake Edwards 1922–2010 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Edwards, the veteran writer and director behind the Pink Panther movies, has sadly died at the age of 88. Edwards died from complications of pneumonia at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said publicist Gene Schwam. Blake's wife, Julie Andrews, and other family members were at his side. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks. In a career that stretched back to the mid-50s, Edwards was oversaw the creation of more than 30 films, including the seafaring comedy Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, and the classic Breakfast At Tiffany’s, which starred Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. He then went on to write and direct the enormously successful The Pink Panther in 1963, the comedy starring David Niven as the suave thief attempting to steal the gigantic diamond of the title, and Peter Sellers as the bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau. The success of The Pink Panther saw Edwards return to direct seven sequels, including A Shot In The Dark (1964), The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975) and Son Of The Pink Panther (1993). Outside the Pink Panther films, Edwards found success with the 1979 comedy, 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek, and Blind Date, a pre-Die Hard hit for Bruce Willis. Despite his inarguable brilliance behind the camera, Edwards never won an Oscar himself, though he was presented with an Honorary Award in 2004. Both versatile and prolific, Blake Edwards will be remembered as one of Hollywood’s great comedy directors, and will be greatly missed. R.I.P. |
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