Turner Classics Movies produced a touching retrospective of all the stars and those who help them shine on the silver screen, who passed this last year. The song by Lord Huron used in the piece is worth a listen in itself (I’ve found that Lord Huron makes for a nice station format on Pandora). Watch
Thanks to the MSM idol worshipping today’s “stars”, most of these passings went un-noticed. Good job.
That was well done..Quite a few I was unaware of.
I’ll forget about Clint Walkers role in Killdozer…But remember
Him from I love Lucy “Sleeping Beauty” Episode.
Very well done. I really enjoyed watching many of these people. But as A.Moose points out, they didn’t have the notoriety or controversy or political idiocy of today’s poor excuse for actors and so went unnoticed.
I wonder how many knew Jesus? When you have money and fame, it is easy to stray
i am pretty sure i did not see penny marshall.
I’m embarrassed to say I wasn’t aware of most of those that passed. I could however name at least one movie I’d seen that had one of them in it as well as the scenes shown for the writer, director or producer. They were the talent that helped build the movies and at least celluloid will allow us to enjoy them forever.
I like movies, but I couldn’t care less about an actor/writer/producer/director who won’t be down for breakfast.
Is anybody going to do the same for all of the servicemen that died? Many in the prime of their life.
YMMV
Clint Walker retired in Grass Valley, CA. When we attended the Tea Party meetings, Clint was there in the front row. I recognized several of the actors and actresses. BTW, the music was very good, I’ll have to check out Lord Huron.
@ john
The YouTube was published 12/14.
The version now playing on TCM cable includes Penny, who died on 12/17.
TCM had a Bert-a-thon Wednesday night. I watched “Smokey and the Bandit” and have “Deliverance” and “The Longest Yard” for the weekend. They were saying the only movie that did better than “Smokey and the Bandit” that year was “Star Wars.” The 70s at least had some great movies.
Burt Reynolds tributes here at Tallahassee. He did a lot to boost FSU.
He might not have pulled off the acting, and was too tall, but Clint Walker could have played Superman.
“I wonder how many knew Jesus? When you have money and fame, it is easy to stray”
The industry is particularly wicked but actors are any more susceptible to being lost to Hell than average, everyday unbelieving folks we meet everyday. Including some of us who frequent here.
@ grool
You can say that again. 👿
Really enjoy TCM. This is a great reminder every year of people who are never going to completely disappear as long as their movies are being played somewhere. They started adding people who were not actors and actresses a few years ago. It’s possible to pull these up from a decade ago. Hard to believe how few of the greatest ones are still alive.
RIP R Lee Ermey.
Ooohh RAH!!!!
Tab Hunter passed? What, a gerbil?
Clint Walker was in a movie called “Grizzly”. The studio managed to find a grizzly bear bigger than Clint.
Clint Walker is my youngest namesake.
anyone remember ‘Cheyenne’?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
It’s on everyday at noon on TMC. (I might have that wrong) Love it. Grew up on it. Watch it when ever I can. I met Clint at a Boat Show when I was young and we lived down in LA. I was around 5 years old, wearing footy pajamas and a Mattel Double rig. He lifted me in the air and said something memorable. I guess. I do remember he was wearing a suit with the biggest damn cowboy hat I’ve ever seen. An eternal fan.
Grool said: “I wonder how many knew Jesus? When you have money and fame, it is easy to stray”
If you get to heaven and you see someone there whom you thought shouldn’t be, are you going to ask God “why is she/he here?” God might say, “the same reason you are, and you barely made it.”
Looking over Clint Walker’s movie credits, I remembered that I saw “None But the Brave” back in 1965 or 1966. It was about a group of WWII Marines marooned on a small island with some Japanese soldiers, also cut off from their army. The group of US Marines had a black actor, I think Rafer Johnson, an Olympic athlete. At aged 17, I was thinking that the services were not integrated in WWII, and so that made it historically innacurate. I can still remember seeing the group of Marines in formation on the beach, and seeing the black guy there. “Nope”, I was saying to myself. I had forgotten all about that movie till tonight.
Goldenfox,
I didn’t say it. DaveVA did.
The song was adolescent angst crap.
I would put celebratory music to a fond remembrance video.
2.4 Million Americans died this year.
Maybe the Plumbers, the Electricians, the HVAC guys, the Longshoremen, the Farmers, the Insurance Agents, the Cops, the Middle Managers, the Flunkeys, the Parasites, the Doctors, the Nurses, and everybody else, should make a “Remember” film?
Hollyweird maggots … please …
izlamo delenda est …