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Dick Gautier, who played Hymie - the robot on Get Smart - dead at 85.

It's a massive shame that case sat like it did collecting dust until he was unreliable enough to prosecute.

I guess the lawyer wasn't lying when he said Snuka didn't have a lot of time left.

Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon

Omensetter wrote:Mark Fisher

Really?

I'm stunned... Mark was utterly brilliant. I didn't know him personally, but I never had the impression he was either particularly old, or sick, so this is quite a shock. Edit: I've just read on Wiki that his wife confirmed it was a suicide. Horribly tragic.

In his honor I want to post this brilliant analysis/discussion of Kubrick he started, from the old google newsgroup.

R.I.P.

bearcuborg wrote:Dick Gautier, who played Hymie - the robot on Get Smart - dead at 85.

Gautier co-wrote the 1968 movie "Maryjane" and the 1972 film "Wild in the Sky," starring Georg Stanford Brown.

Anyone familiar with those films?

I always thought Gautier did a terrific job as Hymie, weirdly believable, even as the jokes he was given (mostly to do with over-literal understanding of phrases) were rather uneven.

Omensetter wrote:Mark Fisher

David Stubbs's tribute is quite touching. I found Fisher's work invaluable when I got into postpunk but his film readings were especially insightful. He'll definitely be missed.

Bill Margold, legendary porn actor turned genre historian and legacy-defender in later years.

MichaelB wrote:Bill Margold, legendary porn actor turned genre historian and legacy-defender in later years.

My only familiarity with Margold is from his interview on the now defunct Subversive Cinema's edition of Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical, where he mostly condemns the current porn industry for the extreme gymnastics required of performers and looks back fondly on the, ahem, natural qualities of 70s performers.

You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist) and Mike Kellie (drummer for the Only Ones and others - Johnny Thunders's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" - later a producer). Tough days for the rhythm section.

Also Maggie Roche.

Gorden Kaye, best known as hapless bar owner René from BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. He's also in a couple of the BBC Shakespeare series from the early 80s: in the adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing and King John.

Feature film-wise he did make a couple of brief appearances in Terry Gilliam films: in Jabberwocky (as "Sister Jessica"!) and as an officious desk clerk in the lobby of the Ministry of Information in Brazil.

hearthesilence wrote:You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist).

Pete Overend Watts.

Robin Davies wrote:

hearthesilence wrote:You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist).

Pete Overend Watts.

Agh, damn you autocorrect!

colinr0380 wrote:Gorden Kaye, best known as hapless bar owner René from BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. He's also in a couple of the BBC Shakespeare series from the early 80s: in the adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing and King John.

Feature film-wise he did make a couple of brief appearances in Terry Gilliam films: in Jabberwocky (as "Sister Jessica"!) and as an officious desk clerk in the lobby of the Ministry of Information in Brazil.

'Allo 'Allo still makes me laugh, even now. It's completely of its time (Thatcher's Britain) and you wouldn't get away with a lot of it now; homophobia, stereotypes of French, Germans and Brits, cartoony obsessions with bosoms, but it never felt mean and had some quite brilliant comic timing with its absurd plot lines. It's one of those sitcoms I'd love to show non-English natives, see what they make of it.

Werner Nekes.

Noooooo