Always wonder if anyone checks if the surviving ones need it.

Haruo Nakajima - Godzilla suit actor for films Godzilla to Godzilla vs Gigan has passed at 88.

 

He was one of two actors to play the role in the original film but as I understand it became the main actor in the role for the subsequent films while the second actor, Katsumi Tezuka, took other monster parts (like Angiurus) although in King Kong vs Godzilla, Nakajima essayed King Kong to Tezuka's Godzilla.

 

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/godzilla-suit-haruo-nakajima-dead-dies-1202517648/

Glen Campbell passed away at 81. I know he had been fighting alzheimers. The Wichita Lineman is no longer on the line.

Jerry lewis died at 91. Respectable age.

Obituaries - **** Gregory passes

RIP Tobe Hooper. I believe you made Poltergeist, pal. The family dynamic seems Spielberg but the hauntings are way too mean for him.

Hooper had a respectable career; Texas Chainsaw Massacre was sort of a turning point for 70s horror films. 

Echoing what you both wrote. R.I.P.

70's & 80's TV actor Richard Anderson passed away at age 91. I remember him in Big Valley and the Six Million Dollar Man

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/richard-anderson-dies-oscar-goldman-from-%E2%80%98six-million-dollar-man%E2%80%99-was-91/ar-AAr3OZC?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

Just saw him in The Wackiest Ship in the Army a few weeks back, but will always remember him for Oscar Goldman on Six Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman and Lt. Drumm on Perry Mason.  RIP

Walter Becker of Steely Dan died today.

RIP Walter Becker

 

https://youtu.be/tgYuLsudaJQ

Following Jaki Liebezeit earlier this year, now Holger Czukay has passed. R.I.P. to a master.

 

 

Away from the music and into the literature side of things,  author and former SFWA president Jerry Pournelle passed away yesterday.

In Memoriam - Jerry Pournelle

Don Williams RIP

 

Such a lovely voice

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/country-music-s-gentle-giant-don-williams-dies-at-78-1.3215616

The founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company passed away.

 

Sir Peter Hall

Frank Vincent Dead

 

Most recognised for Sopranos and Goodfellas.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-len-wein-20170913-story,amp.html

 

Rip Len Wein, comic book writer. He was the writer who created Swamp Thing for DC and Wolverine for Marvel

Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü.

 

http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/15/harry-dean-stanton-dead/

 

Harry Dean Stanton died. R.I.P. to a legend.

Spacecraft are people, too, sorta.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ZrSKpbdSg

Harry Dean Stanton RIP

 

http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a838237/harry-dean-stanton-dies-at-91-twin-peaks-star/

Edited September 16, 20178 yr by Fiach

RIP Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 

 

https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/909544054941036544

 

One of the greatest rasslin' managers and color commentators of all time.

Edited September 17, 20178 yr by Keyrock

Soviet air defense officer who saved the world dies at age 77.

I'm glad he didn't have to live to see WW3 or Cold War 2. I have a feeling the later might just happen yet still.