The Cellar / RIP, Famous person

**Posted by Carruthers** 11/06/2020 1:59 pm

Geoffrey Palmer, TV and film actor, dies at 93

I particularly liked him in the role of Jimmy, Reggie Perrin's domestically inept army officer brother-in-law.
He also appeared as Major Truscott, a very similar character, in Fairly Secret Army, a pretty much forgotten series on Channel 4.

I passed him in the car park at Amersham Station* on one occasion and nodded a polite good afternoon and got barely a grunt in reply. He seemed to be a bit of a miserable sod.
He was doing the voice over for Audi's 'Vorsprung durch technik' TV ads at the time so I wondered what sort of car he would get into. It was a Saab.

Link

* Mornington Crescent!

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**Posted by DanaC** 11/06/2020 2:14 pm

Geoffrey Palmer - a stalwart of British TV and movies died peacefully at home at the age of 93

This one got me - real lump in the throat. The bittersweet sitcom Butterflies, which he starred in in the late 70s //early 80s, was a show we all watched as a family when I was a kid - we used to take the mick out of my Dad saying he was like the Dad in that show.

**Posted by DanaC** 11/06/2020 2:16 pm

So, was in middle of posting the above when Mum called - didn't press submit til after the call - in the meanwhile Carruthers has already posted

**Posted by monster** 11/06/2020 6:05 pm

you Brits are knocking off celebs left right and center right now ....trying to compete with our scintillating election coverage?

**Posted by monster** 11/06/2020 6:20 pm

I remember him from "As Time Goes By" too. I found this clip of a read-through -watch between 30 & 45 seconds if nothing else.....

**Posted by monster** 11/06/2020 6:22 pm

(can anyone direct me to the nearest handbasket?)

**Posted by Carruthers** 11/07/2020 9:53 am

monster wrote:
you Brits are knocking off celebs left right and center right now ...

Yes, I've had to lay in extra stocks of black crepe, just to keep up with it all.

**Posted by griff** 11/07/2020 5:17 pm

America is down one rapist priest so we got that going for us.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 11/07/2020 7:32 pm

Yay?

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**Posted by tw** 11/07/2020 8:10 pm

griff wrote:
America is down one rapist priest so we got that going for us.

Which is up from zero rapist priests before we knew the Catholic church was protecting pedophilia.

**Posted by monster** 11/08/2020 12:41 am

Former UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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**Posted by monster** 11/08/2020 1:06 pm

Alex Trebek, Jeopardy Host, pancreatic cancer ages 80.

I didn't watch it, but I see people who did are very saddened by this news. He worked right until Covid stopped play, and I learned that he once ran with the Olympic Torch for a stretch.

**Posted by griff** 11/08/2020 1:12 pm

This bums me right out. We watch it religiously.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 11/08/2020 6:52 pm

And now I'm sad.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/09/2020 12:39 am

I see Colonial Life Insurance has been running Trebek's commercials the last couple days after a break for months.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 11/09/2020 11:54 am

I have almost never missed Jeopardy for many. many years.
I met Trebek twice while failing to get past round one of a tryout.
I figured out that he must have read 500,000 answers over the years.
He hurt his leg not too long ago chasing a woman who left his hotel room with his wallet. What is whoops?

**Posted by monster** 11/10/2020 9:07 am

He'd have gotten away with it too... if it hadn't been for that meddlin' Lewy Body Dementia

Ken Spears, co creator of Scooby Doo at 82, preceded by his partner in crime cartoons, Joe Ruby in August this year

COD both: old, basically.

**Posted by monster** 11/15/2020 10:00 am

Des O'Connor, 88 fell.

**Posted by monster** 11/15/2020 10:15 am

Carruthers wrote:
monster wrote:
you Brits are knocking off celebs left right and center right now ...
Yes, I've had to lay in extra stocks of black crepe, just to keep up with it all.

do you get discount for bulk? And did you ressurrect Des to bump him off again? I would honestly have assumed he was long gone

**Posted by Limey** 11/15/2020 2:43 pm

monster wrote:
Des O'Connor, 88 fell.

Wasn’t he on our (ahem, Mr Limey’s) celebrity death pool list?

**Posted by monster** 11/15/2020 8:03 pm

Limey wrote:
monster wrote:
Des O'Connor, 88 fell.
Wasn’t he on our (ahem, Mr Limey’s) celebrity death pool list?

Well that was what I was doing over there, because I thought so but didn't see him. Must've had a senior moment.......

**Posted by monster** 11/15/2020 8:04 pm

Limey wrote:
monster wrote:
Des O'Connor, 88 fell.
Wasn’t he on our (ahem, Mr Limey’s) celebrity death pool list?

It seems not...

Mr Limey’s offering (with descriptives in case you’re not sure who he’s referencing). I don’t know any famous people ....
Terry Jones (Monty Python)
Nigel Farage (Cunt)
Bernard Haitink (Conductor)
Barry Cryer (Comedian)
Ringo Starr (Drummer)
Dame Mary Peters (Olympic gold medalist, 1972)
Dame Judi Dench (Actor)
Lester Piggott (Former jockey)
Sir Derek Jacobi (Actor)
Tanni Grey-Thompson (Paralympian)

**Posted by monster** 11/25/2020 12:11 pm

Maradona, 60, heart attack

**Posted by Limey** 11/25/2020 12:16 pm

Crikey.

**Posted by griff** 11/25/2020 5:56 pm

He never handed that ball. ;) Suck it England!