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Huw Ceredig, who played Reg Harries for 29 years in Pobol y Cwm, has died aged 69.

 

 

I'll leave it up to any Welshmen on this forum to decide if they are insulted or deeply gratified to be considered "foreign" by you Poms. :P

 

Meanwhile, Sif Ruud has rudely departed at the age of 95. She was the star of a number of Ingmar Bergman films including It Rains on Our Love, Wild Strawberries and The Magician, so this is a big loss for the world of non-English language cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sif_Ruud

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Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of originators of the Mondo shockumentary films, won't be making my 2012 theme team after all. The links all seem to be in Italian so I won't bother posting one, but rest assured he's morto.

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Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of originators of the Mondo shockumentary films, won't be making my 2012 theme team after all. The links all seem to be in Italian so I won't bother posting one, but rest assured he's morto.

 

English Language report

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vero...sel-zech-230235

 

BERLIN - Rosel Zech, the pale blond actress perhaps best known for her starring turn in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss (1982), died Wednesday of cancer. She was 69.

 

In Germany, Zech was best known for her many small screen roles, especially that of the no-nonsense nun Mother Reuter in the long-running TV sitcom For Heaven's Sake.

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I was just surfing around and I came across this bloke, Pierre "Monsieur Cinema" Tchernia:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Tchernia

 

No idea about his health but he was born in January 1928 so he is getting on. An interesting bloke who has done a lot, I suppose there is a chance he could score a British obit.

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Otto Tausig, who has a role in La Reine Margot and a few other notable foreign films, died the other day:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Tausig

 

As an Austrian Jew, he should actually have died circa 1943 but his mum sent him over to England when she saw an ad for factory workers in the paper. Nevertheless, the Reaper has finally caught up with him.

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Heinz Bennent, actor who appeared in The Tin Drum and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum amongst others and who was the father of David Bennent has died aged 90

 

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/heinz-bennent-1921-2011

 

 

He also appeared in the "Last Metro", as did Paulette Dubost who croaked a week or two ago: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...st&p=163880

 

Which star of that film will be next to go? Could it be Catherine Deneuve or Gerard "Piss on the Plane" Depardieu?

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Ueli Prager

 

The founder of Mövenpick, the Swiss hotel and restaurant group, has died aged 95. Also responsible for Mövenpick ice cream, now part of Nestlé.

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Swedish actress Sickan Carlsson was evidently sick enough to die at 96. Never heard of her but judging from the length of her filmography, she was quite significant:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickan_Carlsson

 

Ingmar Bergman obviously thought she was a good actress as he wrote a screenplay especially for her.

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Another one to keep an eye on is Swiss actress Annemarie Duringer, notable for being in Veronika Voss:

 

http://en.wikipedia....e_D%C3%BCringer

 

No health info but she was born in 1925 so best to make note of her in the thread now so we don't have a Swiss miss.

 

She was still working last year. , Karlheinz Boehm may be worth keeping an eye on, born 1928 doesn't seem to have worked (apart from some DVD commentaries since1996

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This is just another placeholder entry (no health information), for a French actress named Nicole Courcel, who I just stumbled across. The first line of her Wikipedia entry sums things up succinctly:

 

"Nicole Courcel (born 21 October 1931) is a French actress, who achieved popularity through the 1950s, and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France."

 

http://en.wikipedia..../Nicole_Courcel

 

So famous at home but largely unknown overseas probably makes her an each-way bet for a UK obit. She hasn't worked since 1979 so no idea about her present well-being. I guess that lack of recent activity also reduces her chances of an obit.

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Yet another one to keep an eye on for future reference is the French actress Jacqueline Pagnol, who was born in 1926, and thus is entering our target range. Apart from being a reasonably notable actress in her own right, her chances of a UK obit are boosted by the fact that she was the wife (and muse) of the writer and director Marcel Pagnol. She is best known for appearing in Nais (1945) and the original version of Manon de Sources (1952), in the role which later made Emmanuelle Beart famous.

 

She scores reasonably highly on my babe-ometer:

 

FamJacPagnol19.jpg

 

 

Unfortunately, I can't find any current health information on her.

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The thread was starting to become unwieldy, so just to summarise, here are the actresses we have discussed (I will cross them off as they die):

 

NAME BORN NATIONALITY REASON

Pola Illery 1908 Romanian Elderly

Paulette Dubost 1910 French Elderly

Brigitte Borchert 1910 German Elderly

Lupita Tovar 1910 Mexican Elderly

Annalisa Ericson 1913 Swedish Elderly

Marina von Ditmar 1914 Baltic-German Elderly

Vera Gebuhr 1916 Danish Elderly

Lisbeth Movin 1917 Danish Elderly

Danielle Darrieux 1917 French Elderly

Barbro Kollberg 1917 Swedish Elderly

Isuzu Yamadam 1917 Japanese Elderly

Clara Auteri 1918 Italian Elderly

Setsuko Hara 1920 Japanese Elderly

Yoshiko Ōtaka 1920 Japanese Elderly

Michèle Morgan 1920 French Elderly

Dora Doll 1922 French Elderly

Machiko Kyō 1924 Japanese Elderly

Ruth Leuwerik 1924 German Elderly

Annemarie Duringer 1925 Swiss Elderly

Sonja Ziemann 1926 German Elderly

Jacqueline Pagnol 1926 French Elderly

Keiko Tsushima 1926 Japanese Elderly

Emmanuelle Riva 1927 French Elderly

Inga Landgré 1927 Swedish Elderly

Gina Lollobrigida 1927 Italian Elderly

Juliette Greco 1927 French Elderly

Jeanne Moreau 1928 French Elderly

Lisolette Pulver 1929 Swiss Elderly

Fernando Montenegro 1929 Brazilian Elderly

Ruth Maria Kubitschek 1931 Czech Elderly

Marianne Koch 1931 German Elderly

Annie Girardot 1931 French Elderly/Alzheimer's

Francois Arnoul 1931 French Elderly

Leslie Caron 1931 French Elderly

Nicole Courcel 1931 French Elderly

Monica Vitti 1931 Italian Elderly

Lucia Bose 1931 Italian Elderly

Margarita Lozano 1931 Spanish Elderly

Silvia Pinal 1931 Mexican Elderly

Anita Ekberg 1931 Swedish Elderly

Harriet Andersson 1932 Swedish Elderly

Stephane Audran 1932 French Elderly

Nathalie Pascaud ???? French Elderly

 

Brigitte Bardot 1934 French Political views

Sophia Loren 1934 Italian

Bibi Andersson 1935 Swedish

Mylene Demongeot 1935 French

Ursula Andress 1936 Swiss

Norma Alejandro 1936 Argentine

Carry Tefson 1938 Dutch

Liv Ullmann 1938 Swedish

Claudia Cardinale 1938 Italian

Ann-Margret 1941 Swedish

Catherine Deneuve 1943 French "Curse" of the Last Metro :D

Sylvia Kristel 1952 Dutch Lung cancer

Emmanuelle Béart 1963 French Ex-Lover suicided

Beatrice Dalle 1964 French Relationship with violent criminal

Emmanuelle Seigner 1966 French Kinky lifestyle/stress of being Mrs Polanski

Marion Cotillard 1975 French Death threats

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ACTORS

NAME BORN NATIONALITY REASON

Johannes Heesters 1903 Dutch Elderly

Herbert Lom 1917 Czech Jew Elderly

George Gaynes 1917 Finnish Elderly

Louis Jordan 1921 French Elderly

Aleksey Batalov 1928 Russian Elderly

Max von Sydow 1929 Swedish Elderly

Maximillian Schell 1930 Austrian Elderly

Michael Lonsdale 1931 French Elderly

 

Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933 French

Alain Delon 1935 French Organised crime connections

Zdenek Sverak 1936 Czech Already gone beyond the average life expectancy for a Czech!

Johnny Hallyday 1943 French Colon cancer/botched operation

Rutger Hauer 1944 Dutch Magere Hein's favourite

Jeroen Krabbe 1944 Dutch

Gerard Depardieu 1944 French Grossly obese

 

DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS/ETC

NAME BORN NATIONALITY REASON

Wolfgang Suschitzky 1912 Austro-Hungarian Elderly

Kaneto Shindo 1912 Japanese Elderly

Gabriel Axel 1918 Danish Elderly

Mikos Jansco 1921 Hungarian Elderly

Chris Marker 1921 French Elderly

Alain Resnais 1922 French Elderly

Francesco Rosi 1922 Italian Elderly

Seijun Suzukzi 1923 Japanese Elderly

Franco Zeffirelli 1923 Italian Elderly

Andrez Wajda 1926 Polish Elderly

Lina Wertmuller 1926 Italian Elderly

Agnes Varda 1928 French Elderly

Edouard Molinaro 1928 French Elderly

Jacques Rivette 1928 French Elderly

Pierre "Monsieur Cinema" Tchernia 1928 French Elderly

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1929 Chilean Elderly

Paolo Taviani 1929 Italian Elderly

Jesse Franco 1930 Spanish Elderly

Jean-Luc Godard 1930 French Elderly

Masahiro Shinoda 1931 Japanese Elderly

Ermanno Olmi 1931 Italian Elderly

Vittorio Taviani 1931 Italian Elderly

George Sluizer 1932 Dutch Elderly

Carlos Saura 1932 Spanish Elderly

Jerzy Hoffman 1932 Polish Elderly

Roman Polanski 1933 Polish Jew Perverted lifestyle

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Some ones got a lot of time on their hands.

 

We're winding down early for Christmas. All new software releases have been shipped for the year and now we can sit back and watch our stock price soar :D . Its either dick around on Deathlist or join the discussion about last night's episode of Dexter over in the corner. :nod:

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Some more names to add

 

 

http://en.wikipedia....v%C4%9Br%C3%A1k Zdenek Zverak

 

75 year old Czech Actor/Writer who's 1997 film Kolya won an Oscar and GG for Best Foreign Film, and was nominated at the Bafta and European Film awards so his obit chances look highly likely when he croaks.

 

Not sure if he has any health problems but he is already older then the avg life excpectancy for a male from his country so I guess he is a distint possibity.

 

http://en.wikipedia....anda_Montenegro

 

Fernando Montenegro the first Brazilian Actor to be ever get an Oscar nomination turned 82 last month.

 

She is still actively working and could still be around a long time though.

 

http://en.wikipedia..../Norma_Aleandro

 

Norma Aleandro 75 is the Meryl Streep of Argentina

 

As a Best Actress winner at Cannes

Oscar nominee for her 1st Hollywood film

Her 2nd Hollywood film being directed by James Ivory in 2009

I would say whenever she passes her UK Obit chances are almost certain.

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