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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Echoing the sentiments here, Captain Tom an inspiration to so many, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,924Chief of Staff
    This year is starting off in a bad way…the always watchable Christopher Plummer has sadly died, aged 91 - RIP -{
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,425MI6 Agent
    Christopher Plummer had a remarkable career, including movies such as "All the money in the world" and of course "Sound of Music". RIP.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    RIP Christopher Plummer, only just recently saw him in Knives Out.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    The Thorn Birds - that's going back a bit.

    Plummer was of course great in The Sound of Music although
    that wasn't him singing, he agreed to be dubbed - you wouldn't know it, would you?

    Wasn't he in another Craig film aside from Knives Out - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

    Guess I'm dumb but I thought that he'd have a few years in him yet seeing as he was still working in his 90s.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,634MI6 Agent
    RIP Christopher Plummer.
    Showed his espionage chops in the wartime spy thriller TRIPLE CROSS
    A great loss. Can't believe he was 91 !
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Yes he was in Fincher’s TGWTDT, as the grandfather(?) of the girl who went missing. Also in another favourite of mine, The Man Who Would Be King as Kipling.

    As you say NP, he did seem to be going from strength to strength at his age doing such high profile films, so something of a shock hearing of his passing. IMDB are recording the cause as complications after a fall, which is sad.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    There's an excellent full-page tribute to Plummer in today's Times.

    It does seem in the 60s you had various clubs of actors. Plummer's obit talks of his great stage roles and his heavy drinking which was par for the course back then. Or was it - Burton, Harris and O'Toole did all that, but then you had another bunch of actors such as Connery and Caine who trod a different path - never trod the boards to speak of, but went straight from rep into telly work and then the big screen. Moore, too. Connery might have hung out with the heavy drinking crowd but he was never quite in that club and I think I read that Caine pretty much gave up on drink some time later, could be wrong about that. He certainly never did drugs.

    It does seem that it's the fall that does it for you past a certain age... Des O'Conner went that way too, though he was pictured laughing and giving the thumbs up through his window during lockdown just a while before.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • nobodynobody Posts: 110MI6 Agent
    Was Plummer ever considered for Bond? Although I think he was Canadian, he had somewhat of a British accent. He took over the role of Sir Charles Litton, in "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975) from David Niven. I remember thinking he was pretty suave, and brought some of the charm Roger Moore was at the time demonstrating as 007.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    nobody wrote:
    Was Plummer ever considered for Bond? Although I think he was Canadian, he had somewhat of a British accent. He took over the role of Sir Charles Litton, in "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975) from David Niven. I remember thinking he was pretty suave, and brought some of the charm Roger Moore was at the time demonstrating as 007.

    I'm not sure about Bond but I know he was offered the role of rival spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) but he turned it down to star in The Sound of Music (1965), something he later regretted.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    Funny, isn't it? Whether he likes it or not, The Sound of Music was a legendary role for Plummer. And, of course, Harry Palmer was the defining role for Michael Caine - you just can't see Plummer in that role, not least because of his resemblance both physically and in manner to Guy 'Count Lippe' Doleman as Palmer's superior, Ross.

    On the subject, it was rumoured that Connery might have been in the running for the Captain Von Trapp role in SoM. You can sort of see it, but Plummer knocked it out of the ball park. Nobody Mickey-takes Plummer's English accent for that film (Canadian Shamadian) but the Scottish Connery would have been ribbed for his 'Austrian' accent.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    Funny, isn't it? Whether he likes it or not, The Sound of Music was a legendary role for Plummer. And, of course, Harry Palmer was the defining role for Michael Caine - you just can't see Plummer in that role, not least because of his resemblance both physically and in manner to Guy 'Count Lippe' Doleman as Palmer's superior, Ross.

    On the subject, it was rumoured that Connery might have been in the running for the Captain Von Trapp role in SoM. You can sort of see it, but Plummer knocked it out of the ball park. Nobody Mickey-takes Plummer's English accent for that film (Canadian Shamadian) but the Scottish Connery would have been ribbed for his 'Austrian' accent.

    Yes, things often work out for the best though it may not seem like it at the time for those who miss out or feel disappointed that they didn't get one role over the other. As one door closes another door opens.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    [As one door closes another door opens.

    You're aptly quoting a line from The Sound of Music!
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    [As one door closes another door opens.

    You're aptly quoting a line from The Sound of Music!

    Totally accidentally on my part. Believe it or not, I've never seen it! :))
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    Mary Wilson of The Supremes.

    I doubt she's heading for the same place as Phil Spector.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,616MI6 Agent
    Chick Corea, one of my favourite musicians, has died. I regret not going to more of his concerts. Such a brilliantly creative man!
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Saddened to read of the death of Peter Lawrence, not a celebrity but a father who went to his grave without knowing what happened to his daughter, Claudia, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
    There was an Internet cafe round the back of John Lewis in Oxford Street... lacking a computer back then I would visit it, paying a quid an hour to post, often enough on this website. This was over a decade ago, it's long shut.

    I recall going in as Peter Lawrence was coming out, I'm pretty sure it was him. He had an ethereal happy-go-lucky gleam about him that only those who are really going through the wars and trying to make the best of it can have, sort of 'keep smiling through' or else you cry.

    There are hints and whispers of what happened to his daughter, Claudia, namely in terms of her being murdered I mean, and I don't really know why this captured my imagination more than some of the other missing persons investigations. It's all so awful, it really is, and again the investigation was affected by the usual pseudo slut-shaming, the idea that being. woman not wholly forthcoming about her private life or sex life, she somehow 'had it coming' or what have you. State operators such as the police but also social services do like to perpetuate the idea that someone 'had it coming' or there's another side to it all, to mitigate from their own investigative shortcomings.

    It's all so awful, it really is, you feel for everyone involved.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • nafets47nafets47 FloridaPosts: 939MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Matt S wrote:
    Chick Corea, one of my favourite musicians, has died. I regret not going to more of his concerts. Such a brilliantly creative man!

    I saw him something like 8 years ago with Return to Forever. Just a fantastic show. The man simply had far too much talent.

    Saw him do a show two years ago. Fantastic, I believe he really was unparalleled when it came to what he did.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Ronald Pickup has died aged 80, RIP. He was in Never Say Never Again, but I’ll always remember him as the forger that got too greedy for Edward Fox’s liking in The Day of the Jackal.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Ronald Pickup has died aged 80, RIP. He was in Never Say Never Again, but I’ll always remember him as the forger that got too greedy for Edward Fox’s liking in The Day of the Jackal.

    RIP Ronald Pickup. He's one of those actors who pops up in many films that I like. One moment always stands out to me. He has the most dramatic line in the later Forsyth adaptation, The Fourth Protocol.

    "It's the detonator for a bomb..(very long dramatic pause)...an atomic bomb!"
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent

    Just read that former Liverpool player and football pundit Ian St John, “Saint” to Jimmy Greaves’ “Greavsie”, has died aged 82, RIP.

    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,998MI6 Agent

    Yes I thought Pickup was terrific. Although why he chose to play that particular part as Welsh I don't know! :)

  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent

    Sad to hear of the death of Ronald Pickup from NSNA and many other films.

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,924Chief of Staff

    Very sad to hear of the passing of the great Ian St. John, a true Liverpool legend...aged 82


    RIP Saint 🍸


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  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent

    It's been reported on various Bond sources, that Bill Cartlidge has died. He was an assistant director on YOLT and an associate producer in TSWLM and Moonraker.

    His commentaries with Michael Wilson and Lewis Gilbert are really funny.

    RIP,Bill

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent

    Yes, I saw that today on Ajay Chowdhury's account on Instagram. Not seen anything on Wikipedia yet or from news sources. Sad news.

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent

    I saw the news of Bill's passing on JBR FB page.

    He was very funny in those commentaries. I never had the chance to meet him. But he came across as a lovely man

    Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"

    " I don't listen to hip hop!"
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent

    Yes he was, met him at Pinewood twice. He had a lot of time for the fans, signing autographs and posing for pictures. Also a very funny man, RIP.

    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    edited March 2021

    Sad to hear of the death yesterday of film voiceover artist Nikki van der Zyl, aged 85. She was a largely unsung contributor to the earlier Bond films. As well as her dubbing of many of the Bond girls she was also the English coach to Gert Frobe on the set of Goldfinger. Quite a career.

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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