RIP 2024

[canefan]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360461018/baywatch-star-dies-18-years-after-being-diagnosed-parkinsons-disease

I remember the guy in the background, pretty sure he had a couple of seconds in the opening. Funny that he was an actual lifeguard while on the show

[Nepia]

@canefan said in RIP 2024:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360461018/baywatch-star-dies-18-years-after-being-diagnosed-parkinsons-disease

I remember the guy in the background, pretty sure he had a couple of seconds in the opening. Funny that he was an actual lifeguard while on the show

Damn, I just finished watching the Baywatch doco on Disney where he was one of the ones they focused on for the series.

[sparky]

British shot putter and former World's Strongest Man, Geoff Capes.

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in RIP 2024:

British shot putter and former World's Strongest Man, Geoff Capes.

Legend

[sparky]

@MiketheSnow

[MiketheSnow]

[MN5]

@sparky said in RIP 2024:

British shot putter and former World's Strongest Man, Geoff Capes.

Absolute machine back in the day.

His food bill was absolutely enormous !

Jeepers guys like that make ya feel weak…..

RIP.

[MiketheSnow]

Another childhood idol gone

Ron Ely
Tarzan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr9lew9glpo.amp

[Bovidae]

Quincy Jones, aged 91.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360475056/quincy-jones-music-titan-who-worked-everyone-frank-sinatra-michael-jackson-dies

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in RIP 2024:

Quincy Jones, aged 91.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360475056/quincy-jones-music-titan-who-worked-everyone-frank-sinatra-michael-jackson-dies

Watched his doco on Netflix. What an amazing life he had

[MN5]

Crikey, now THAT dude left a musical legacy and then some.

The list of artists he worked with was extraordinary.

RIP

[Tim]

[Machpants]

Greg Hildebrand

[Machpants]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360478700/last-surviving-maori-battalion-member-dies

[Victor Meldrew]

Timothy West.

Celebrated British actor, husband of Prunella Scales and tireless dementia campaigner. who openly chronicled her life with the disease.

Nov 12, 2024

Prunella Scales faces dementia battle without husband Timothy West after his death at 90

Actors were married for 61 years and praised for their gentle exploration of her condition in the hit TV series Great Canal Journeys

[Victor Meldrew]

@Machpants said in RIP 2024:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360478700/last-surviving-maori-battalion-member-dies

End of an era. I have a small family connection too - my Dad trained some of the 28th radio operators before they left NZ

[MiketheSnow]

@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2024:

Timothy West.

Celebrated British actor, husband of Prunella Scales and tireless dementia campaigner. who openly chronicled her life with the disease.

Nov 12, 2024

Prunella Scales faces dementia battle without husband Timothy West after his death at 90

Actors were married for 61 years and praised for their gentle exploration of her condition in the hit TV series Great Canal Journeys

Saw him and his wife Prunella Scales in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night back in the 90s

A tour de force

[canefan]

Associated Press  /  Nov 16, 2024  /  Sport

Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach who mentored Nadia Comaneci, dies aged 82

Karolyi trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and help turn the US into an international gymnastics power

[pakman]

Rod Eddowes: bloke who wrote https://www.rugbology.co.nz/about

[dogmeat]

Australian Associated Press  /  Nov 30, 2024  /  Sport

Former Test cricketer and Australian Hall of Fame hero Ian Redpath dies age 83

The Victorian opener who played 66 Tests, scored eight centuries and was inducted into Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2023, has died age 83