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Gus Mears

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Yeah, such a great actor. What a voice too. I'll remember him for the film "Champions" about him playing Bob Champion and winning the Grand National on Aldaniti. What a soundtrack on that film by Carl Davis which still gets used during the Grand National TV coverage. "Scandal" too in the 80s was a good one about the Profumo affair. Very sexually explicit at times too. Also, for the AIDS adverts. His very sad, deep voice certainly got the point across that no other actor could have done. Probably what he'll be most remembered for. Scaring the shit out of people to get tested. AIDS posters from that ad campaign were still on the walls when I got my liver checked out a few weeks ago (maybe they need to update the whole ad campaign) (liver and AIDS patients use the same clinic here. I DON'T HAVE AIDS. I HAVE MANY MANY GALLSTONES). I don't think I've seen the "Elephant Man". Starred in some right shit in the 80s though. "Jake Speed" for one and 90s until "Hellboy" came along. Sad news. RIP.

 

Here is an AIDS advert where he talks. Don't think any other actor could get the point across like John Hurt here.

 

Here's the "Ice Mountains of AIDS" one, which I find creepier because nobody talks..

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John Hurt is one of my favourite actors ever, so this is shit news to wake up to. He was never less than tremendous in anything I ever saw him in. His first big break-out performance as Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant is astounding, and, of course, he possessed one of the most distinctive voices ever. I was overjoyed when the BBC managed to slot him into the Doctor Who mythos as the War Doctor, as he was definitely perfect for the role. He's also central to one of the most memorable scenes in cinema history in Alien.

 

RIP Sir John Hurt.

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An incredible voice, nothing like it - if you have John Hurt reading what you've written you know it's going to have gravitas that very few others could give it. I'd do a list of things I've seen he was great in but it would go on for ages - there are a lot of things he was great in. Very sad news. RIP.

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Saw on Twitter it's being reported that Joost van der Westhuizen has passed away from MND at the age of 45. Bloody hell, that's no age at all.

 

RIP.

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More bad news as Chas from Chas and Dave has throat cancer. Thankfully, looks to be caught quite early.

 

Really want to see them live before they pack it up, obviously overall health way more important, but not sure where this will leave him in terms of singing. Poor bugger.

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Won't mean much to a lot of people, but Professor Irwin Corey died yesterday. He was an American comedian who specialized in playing "The World's Foremost Authority," a bumbling professor who would search his person for his notes, and then start the lecture with a "However..." that was unrelated to anything that came before it, and then ramble at length with discursions regarding nothing that had come previously. Not unlike Stanley Unwin, although without the made-up language. Pretty obscure, but totally a hero of mine — lived in a very expensive house in Manhattan, but begged on the street and gave it all to charity, and was a rock-ribbed socialist who must have been totally in misery over the past few months.

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Richard Hatch that played Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica and Tom Zarek in the rebooted Battlestar Galactica has passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38904586

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More bad news as Chas from Chas and Dave has throat cancer. Thankfully, looks to be caught quite early.

 

Really want to see them live before they pack it up, obviously overall health way more important, but not sure where this will leave him in terms of singing. Poor bugger.

If you can, please do. One of my favorite live acts ever. So much fun

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Saw on Twitter it's being reported that Joost van der Westhuizen has passed away from MND at the age of 45. Bloody hell, that's no age at all.

 

RIP.

 

Fought it bloody well. RIP.

 

Having last my father in law to it at 56, with Dementia as well,  it is a truely terrible disease

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More bad news as Chas from Chas and Dave has throat cancer. Thankfully, looks to be caught quite early.

 

Really want to see them live before they pack it up, obviously overall health way more important, but not sure where this will leave him in terms of singing. Poor bugger.

If you can, please do. One of my favorite live acts ever. So much fun

 

I saw Chas and Dave twice. Once in a theatre which was literally a show of two halves, the other time at Glastonbury in 2005 jam packed into a tent with more Spurs fans than you could shake a stick at. Consummate entertainers. The theatre show was brilliant. In the first half they both sat with acoustic guitars talking about their musical influences and playing songs that had affected them or inspired them growing up. Then they went off for a brew, came back on with the piano, bass and Mick the Drummer and spent an hour or so rattling through their back catalogue. I'd been well burnt out in terms of playing music after I'd been through college and uni studying it, but when I was in the pub with my mate after having seen how much fun there was to be had not just attending a gig, but playing it as well I told him I wanted to start gigging again so we reformed our old band. I hope they've caught it early enough that they can do something about it. If the chance to see them live comes up, take it. You can tell they're having a great time and not just doing it for the money.

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