*Official* In Memoriam Thread

[madducks]

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. RIP.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/europ...ntl/index.html

By the end of the 1980's, i had over 800 of those things. Because i couldn't play vinyl records in my car. Then i transitioned to compact discs during the 1990's. Only have about 600 of those.

[revo]

Legendary middleweight boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler died at age 66. RIP.

[revo]

Yaphet Kotto, a character actor who had a lengthy career and is best known for his roles in Alien, The Running Man, Live and Let Die, Raid on Entebbe, Homicide: Life on the Street and others, died at age 81. RIP.

[Pauly]

The Lakers just announced that NBA Hall of Famer and Legend Elgin Baylor has passed at the age of 86 from natural causes. RIP

[revo]

Prolific actor George Segal died at age 87. RIP.

[heyelander]

Jessica Walters dead at 80.

Most recently Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development and the voice of Archer's mom on Archer.

[heyelander]

[Gregg]

She was very creepy in the movie Play Misty For Me.

Great TV actress.

[rhd]

She was very creepy in the movie Play Misty For Me.

Great TV actress.

That's the role I remember her for. She was great in that. "Play Misty For Me" is what was remade later as "Fatal Attraction". RIP.

[revo]

Oscar Frayer, a senior on Grand Canyon’s basketball team which just lost to Iowa on Tuesday, was killed in a car accident early this morning. Terrible. RIP.

[revo]

Craig “muMs da schemer” Grant, a poet and actor who most prominently appeared on the HBO show ‘Oz’, died of natural causes at age 52. RIP.

[madducks]

B.B. Dickerson, bass player for the band "War", has died at age 71. RIP.

[madducks]

Actress Gloria Henry, who played Dennis the Menace's mother Alice Mitchell in the original TV show from 1959-1963 has died at age 98. RIP.

[madducks]

Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, a civil rights activist and the longest-serving member of Florida's congressional delegation, has died from pancreatic cancer at age 84. RIP.

[madducks]

British actor Paul Ritter who played Eldred Worple in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has died of a brain tumor at age 54. RIP.