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Dudley Sutton.

andyli wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:35 am Kirin Kiki just passed away.

EDIT: In the west, she is probably most famous for playing many mother/grandmother roles in Hirokazu Kore-eda's films.

I like her performance (and everyone else's of course) in Still Walking (which I've watched frequently). It's sad to know that we will not be seeing her in any more film.

andyli wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:35 am Kirin Kiki just passed away.

EDIT: In the west, she is probably most famous for playing many mother/grandmother roles in Hirokazu Kore-eda's films.

And a lead role in Naomi Kawase's Sweet Bean.

Stephen Jeffreys, a playwright probably best known for adapting his play into The Libertine, and perhaps less celebrated for the 2013 adapted screenplay for the Princess Di story, Diana.

He also worked the other way, by teaming up with Iain Softley to turn his previously filmed story about the "fifth Beatle", Backbeat, into a theatrical play in 2010.

Denis Norden. Had a long comedy career in the UK, although best known to more modern audiences for It'll Be Alright on the Night, a show about unfortunate events, usually happening to TV presenters and the like, broken up by Denis's witty one-liners.

I'd no idea, but it seems the great and underread Russian novelist Vladimir Sharov died. Here is a superb obit from his translator, Oliver Ready.

Lazy Lester, a Louisiana-born singer and harmonica player whose rough and rollicking style of swamp blues influenced musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, died Aug. 22 at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85.
Played on lots of Excello blues recordings, backing Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, etc.
Mostly on harmonica, but he also played guitar and piano.

One story is that he was sitting next to Lightning Slim on a bus, who was on his way to a recording session. Lester tagged along to see the process. The harmonica player failed to show, so Lester auditioned, was hired on the spot and cut the records.

Also, seems he was in a recent Geico commercial.

Australian actor/writer Damian Hill, aged forty-two, cause of death not yet reported.

I hold Gary Kurtz in high regards. I believe he was more responsible for the success of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back as the Producer than George Lucas was as Director. George may have been the idea guy, but without someone willing to tell him "no" we get things like the Prequels.

He also got his start with Monte Hellman, as an AD and/or producer on films like The Shooting, Ride in the Whirlwind, and Two-Lane Blacktop. Quite a career.

Isabel Quigly, primarily a distinguished translator, but she was also the Spectator’s film critic from 1956-66 (a position previously held by Graham Greene).

Singer Marty Balin.

Charles Aznavour and Stelvio Cipriani.

I'd missed that - but it's a big loss. He was always one of my favourite artists on the series (and, IMO, the definitive Strontium Dog artist as well).

Clay animator Will Vinton

C. J. Fuller, former Clemson running back, at 22