In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

[Fool to cry]

I have all those books. As a fan they were invaluable. RIP.

 

[Hiyo]

Paul Johnson, Get Get Down house producer, dies at age 50 from Covid-19.

Chicago dance music star, who reached UK Top 5 in 1999, had been placed in intensive care in July.

 

[Hiyo]

Kelli Hand, AKA dance music producer K-Hand, dies aged 56.

For more than 25 years, Detroit DJ and producer showcased a versatile style that spanned house and techno.

[Popples]

 

[GHScorpiosRule]

16 minutes ago, Popples said:

 

NOOOOOOO!!!!!  I just today, watched and danced to Celebration!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭

One of my favorite groups that defined my tween and teen years.

RIP.

[Fool to cry]

 

 

[BetterButter]

Trevor Moore Dies: Co-Founder Of ‘The Whitest Kids U Know’ Was 41

[giovannif7]

#RIP Markie Post 😢😥😥

https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/

 

Edited August 8, 2021 by giovannif7

[Irlandesa]

This one shocked me. I was hoping we'd see her in the Night Court reboot. 

[roamyn]

Awe man, Night Court is one of my favorite all time shows.  Who’s left?  Just Larroquette?

Edited August 8, 2021 by roamyn

[Yogisbooboo64]

Damn!  That hurt, I always loved Markie's hair during Night Court and she was gorgeous til the end.

RIP lovely lady.

3 minutes ago, roamyn said:

Awe man, Night Court is one of my favorite all time shows.  Who’s left?  Just Larroquette?

Marsha Warfield and Richard Moll.

Edited August 8, 2021 by Yogisbooboo64

[biakbiak]

1 minute ago, roamyn said:

Just Larroquette?

Richard Moll and Marsha Warfield, who replaced Selma Diamond when she died and was on for a majority of the run, are also alive. 

[BetterButter]

19 minutes ago, roamyn said:

Who’s left?  Just Larroquette?

Richard Moll

Marsha Warfield

Mike Finneran

William Utay

Ellen Foley

Karen Austin

[KWalkerInc]

I always enjoyed Markie Post's work as Christine on Night Court.  My aunt (who passed away in 2012) was a big fan because they both attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland at the same time.  I believe my aunt mentioned watching her in some plays in college.

[letter8358]

4 hours ago, giovannif7 said:

#RIP Markie Post 😢😥😥

https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/

 

The prettiest woman ever!

[MissAlmond]

16 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

NOOOOOOO!!!!!  I just today, watched and danced to Celebration!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭

One of my favorite groups that defined my tween and teen years.

I danced around the house and sang Celebration in the car earlier this year.

R.I.P and Get down, Get down. Get down, Get down in the hereafter Mr. Thomas. 

[andromeda331]

I loved Markie Post in Night Court. She did a great job as Christine Sullivan. I also liked her in Hearts Afire. RIP Markie Post and thanks for such great characters.

[Browncoat]

RIP Markie Post.  I loved her on Night Court.  Her Christine Sullivan was a great foil for Dan Fielding.

[shapeshifter]

6 hours ago, giovannif7 said:

#RIP Markie Post 😢😥😥

https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/

A tough end to a life well-lived:

Quote

...a three year, ten month battle with cancer....
...Post was determined to keep pursuing acting as “a side job”, even as she got sick. Between chemo treatments, she worked on projects...
...“But for us, our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friends, sewed curtains for first apartments and showed us how to be kind, loving and forgiving in an often harsh world,” her family said in a statement....

😥

[basiltherat]

. . . Dan Fielding was ridiculous back in the day . . . 

[magicdog]

FSU Coach Bobby Bowden has passed at the age of 91.  Truly a life well lived.

[merylinkid]

Damn.   Markie Post was so great as Christine.   So soon after we lost Mac too.

 

FUCK CANCER.

[roamyn]

5 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Richard Moll and Marsha Warfield, who replaced Selma Diamond when she died and was on for a majority of the run, are also alive. 

Geez, I thought they had deceased already.  I’m sorry for my incorrect brain.

[Fool to cry]

First Mac, now Christine? Cancer sucks.

After Night Court she starred in Hearts Afire with John Ritter and then I saw her as Cameron Diaz' mom in There's Something About Mary.

[Picture It. Sicily]

Markie Post was a riot as Elliot's mother on Scrubs. Horrible character, but the way she delivered every line was gold.

[AimingforYoko]

Markie Post was in a MFTVM adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel Glitz with Jimmy Smits.

Obviously, it's MFTVM quality, but it's still Elmore Leonard. R.I.P.

[Bastet]

I never watched Night Court, but I loved Markie Post in Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's Hearts Afire.  My mom had a friend who'd grown up with Post and kept in touch; I remember her saying Markie was a wonderful combination of an artistic mother and scientist father, with a delightful impish streak a mile wide all her own.

[Crashcourse]

7 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

I danced around the house and sang Celebration in the car earlier this year.

R.I.P and Get down, Get down. Get down, Get down in the hereafter Mr. Thomas. 

And don't forget to Get down on it!

R.I.P., Mr. Thomas 

[scarynikki12]

 

[Bastet]

Jane Withers died yesterday, surrounded by family, at 95.  Not bad at all.

Pushed into show biz at a very young age by her parents, Withers was a prolific child/teen star in the '30s and '40s - she was the fantastically awful foil to Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes, played numerous rambunctious "tomboy" roles, and gained fans such as FDR - taking a break to churn out a bunch of kids before returning to the silver screen in Giant (the 1956 Elizabeth Taylor/James Dean film) after meeting George Stevens while she, hoping to also become a director, was studying at USC's film school.  She transitioned to TV - and the long-running series of Josephine the Plumber commercials for Comet - and later took up voice acting in her 70s.

She was also a philanthropist, focused on organizations benefiting women and girls.

[meowmommy]

22 minutes ago, Bastet said:

She transitioned to TV - and the long-running series of Josephine the Plumber commercials for Comet - and later took up voice acting in her 70s.

Josephine the Plumber is how I, as a kid growing up in the 60s, primarily knew her.  Heaven help me, though, she's one of those people I'd thought passed on a long time ago.

[WinnieWinkle]

13 minutes ago, meowmommy said:

Josephine the Plumber is how I, as a kid growing up in the 60s, primarily knew her.  Heaven help me, though, she's one of those people I'd thought passed on a long time ago.

Same.  I knew her first as Josephine but when my daughter was little she went through a Shirley Temple phase and we collected quite a few movies - I was surprised to see Jane Withers as the obnoxious little girl in Bright Eyes.  She was also really wonderful in that.  My only other real knowledge (such as that is) of her was in two mystery books which featured her that my mother had in her collection.   All that said I just read the blurb about her on wiki. Wow, she sounded like a wonderful person - and her parents could have given lessons on how to be the best kind of parents to a kid in show business!

[Fool to cry]

 

 

 

[roseha]

So sad, but the tributes to Markie Post from everyone especially her daughters are so touching.  She was so good in Night Court (especially as foil to John Laroquette as noted above) but it's so good to see her appreciated for herself as well.  RIP.

[MissAlmond]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

Jane Withers died yesterday, surrounded by family, at 95. 

Loved Jane Withers in Giant.  The one who lived miles away with all those cows.  R.I.P. Ms. Withers.  

[Chaos Theory]

I have an affinity for tv drug movies.   Markie Post was in the late 90s “Chasing The Dragon”.  It was actually pretty good for a TV movie unfortunately it’s been scrubbed from tv since about the late 90s.   

[Blergh]

One thing that should be noted as Miss Withers is that she somewhat helped break gender barriers by playing a female plumber in the 1960's for the commercials. She insisted that Josephine's 'uniform' was based on what SHE would wear when fixing things around her own home. Yes, her life had its challenges but it seems that her protective mother may have helped give her the strength not only to avoid hazards as a child performer but also to help cope with sadness. RIP, Miss Withers.

Edited August 9, 2021 by Blergh

[Inquisitionist]

Markie Posts's guest-starring turn on Cheers, Season 2, as an old friend of Diane's was very good.  RIP, Ms. Post.  So lovely, so talented, so brave.

[MissAlmond]

Bob Ringwald, jazz musician and father of actress Molly Ringwald has died, age 80.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/bob-ringwald-jazz-musician-father-of-molly-ringwald-dead-at-80-1234811213/

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/obituaries/article253335873.html

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/09/bob-ringwald-dies-northern-california-jazz-pianist-actors-father/

 

[Yogisbooboo64]

21 hours ago, Inquisitionist said:

Markie Posts's guest-starring turn on Cheers, Season 2, as an old friend of Diane's was very good.  RIP, Ms. Post.  So lovely, so talented, so brave.

Yeah, that was one of my favorites....I like to shout out DINNERTIME! when it is time to eat, lol.

[MissAlmond]

Chucky Thompson record producer for Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige has died, age 53.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026349642/notorious-b-i-g-nas-and-mary-j-blige-producer-chucky-thomson-dies-at-53

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chucky-thompson-dead/2021/08/10/b78ef696-f959-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/legendary-hip-hop-producer-chucky-thompson-dies

[BetterButter]

Pat Hitchcock, Daughter of Alfred Hitchcock Who Appeared in His Films, Dies at 93

[Crashcourse]

14 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Pat Hitchcock, Daughter of Alfred Hitchcock Who Appeared in His Films, Dies at 93

Even though she had a small part, I remember her in Psycho. 

RIP, Ms. Hitchcock

[GreekGeek]

1 hour ago, Crashcourse said:

Even though she had a small part, I remember her in Psycho. 

RIP, Ms. Hitchcock

What was her role in “Psycho”? In “Strangers on a Train,” she had a small but very important role as someone with a very triggering resemblance to a murder victim.

[biakbiak]

41 minutes ago, GreekGeek said:

What was her role in “Psycho”? In “Strangers on a Train,” she had a small but very important role as someone with a very triggering resemblance to a murder victim.

Marion’s coworker, Caroline. 

[GreekGeek]

8 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Marion’s coworker, Caroline. 

Thanks! I figured it was someone very early in the film.

[MissAlmond]

Actress Una Stubbs who portrayed Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock has died, age 84.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/una-stubbs-dies-sherlock-actress-84-1234813490/

https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/una-stubbs-dead-dies-sherlock-eastenders-1235040236/

Edited August 12, 2021 by MissAlmond

[JustHereForFood]

4 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Actress Una Stubbs who portrayed Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock has died, age 84.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/una-stubbs-dies-sherlock-actress-84-1234813490/

https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/una-stubbs-dead-dies-sherlock-eastenders-1235040236/

Aw, I had no idea she was that old. I liked her as Mrs Hudson. RIP.

[BetterButter]

Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's 'Talk Of The Nation,' Dies At 71

[MissAlmond]

4 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's 'Talk Of The Nation,' Dies At 71

Oh no!  I loved listening to Neal Conan and Talk of the Nation.  R.I.P. Mr. Conan.