Notable Passings and other milestones

[zooterkin]

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[bignickel]

Marjoe Gortner, 82.

I was just thinking about him the day before he passed.

Had this idea of skit in my head of some agent on the BBC going on about "What happened to all the curly headed main men on TV? We used to have Tom Baker, Gareth Roberts, Colin Baker, Steven Pacey, Barry Andrews, William Katt! Somebody get me Marjoe Gortner on the line!"

 

[Andy_Ross]

Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102.

Eva Marie Saint – a life in pictures

We look back at the life and eight-decade career of the Oscar-winning actor, who has died aged 102

www.theguardian.com

 

[JayUtah]

Margaret Hamilton has died, aged 90. (The Apollo computer science pioneer, not the Wicked Witch of the West.)

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

news.mit.edu

 

[Andy_Ross]

A thread has been started

 

[alfaniner]

Mike Ditka, famous coach of 'Da Bears.
I never watch football, but even I've heard of him.

 

[PitPat]

RJ Mitte aka Walter Jr from Breaking Bad died at 34, RIP.

RJ Mitte Dead: 'Breaking Bad' Actor Was 34

RJ Mitte, who played the son of Bryan Cranston's Walter White on the Emmy-winning series Breaking Bad, has died at age 34.

deadline.com

 

[alfaniner]

Tom Skerritt, 93. Of Alien (Dallas), Top Gun (Viper), Contact (Drumlin), et. al.

 

[rdaneel]

Tom Skerritt, 93. Of Alien (Dallas), Top Gun (Viper), Contact (Drumlin), et. al.

When I saw he'd died, the first thing that popped into my head was "Picket Fences".

 

[Trebuchet]

RJ Mitte aka Walter Jr from Breaking Bad died at 34, RIP.

RJ Mitte Dead: 'Breaking Bad' Actor Was 34

RJ Mitte, who played the son of Bryan Cranston's Walter White on the Emmy-winning series Breaking Bad, has died at age 34.

deadline.com

Clicked link. Terrible site, couldn't get to where I could read.

 

[EHocking]

Clicked link. Terrible site, couldn't get to where I could read.

The People magazine online claims RJ Mitte' "actor's rep" states that the death was a suicide.

Muck raking for headlines by People? I don't know.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Henry Winkler
@hwinkler4real

TOM SKERRIT : lead the very first show I executive produced RYANS FOUR . He was an amazing leader .. An amazing actor .. REST IN PEACE Tom

 

[Blue Bubble]

Celtic music legend Dónal Lunny^WP died today.

Dónal Lunny (10 March 1947 – 23 October 2026) was an Irish folk musician and producer. He played guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he was at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades. In 2025, he was the recipient of the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

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[Andy_Ross]

Celtic music legend Dónal Lunny^WP died today.

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That's sad news.

 

[alfaniner]

Even my local station had an article about Michael Gray, who played Billy Batson on the Shazam! TV show back in the 70s. I don't know that he did much of note after that, but I did recognize him (mostly from the clothing) in a cameo in the second Shazam movie a few years ago.

 

[novaphile]

Clicked link. Terrible site, couldn't get to where I could read.

ugh.

Blinking, flashing, popups, popovers, how on Earth do people put up with all that crap?

 

[JayUtah]

Michael Gray, "TV's Billy Batson," passed away on Oct. 16, aged 75. Shazam! was one of my guilty Saturday morning pleasures as a child.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Michael Gray, "TV's Billy Batson," passed away on Oct. 16, aged 75. Shazam! was one of my guilty Saturday morning pleasures as a child.

I encountered him when he played a parody version of himself on Archer on a couple of occasions. He was pretty good.

 

[JayUtah]

I encountered him when he played a parody version of himself on Archer on a couple of occasions. He was pretty good.

He graduated to that rarified stratum of actors who get to play themselves as characters.

 

[TragicMonkey]

He graduated to that rarified stratum of actors who get to play themselves as characters.

Such as acclaimed character actress Margo Martindale!

She played herself on Bojack Horseman, and the joke was that each time she was mentioned --including by herself--she was referred to in full as "acclaimed character actress Margo Martindale".