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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Sad news indeed, RIP Gene Wilder. So many classic performances The Producers, Young Frankenstein,
    Blazing Saddles, stir Crazy. Gene thank you for all the laughs. One of the Greatest.
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  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent
    The original and the best Wonka. The 1971 version of the film was one of my childhood favourites. RIP, Mr Wilder.
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    RIP Gene Wilder -{

    He made some great movies, he will be missed.
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  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    Gene Wilder was a brilliant comic actor - perhaps the greatest of his generation. Rest in peace :(
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  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Leslie Martinson , 101 (Batman '66 feature director)
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Today's Times has an obit for Curtis Hanson, director of LA Confidential - superb film, RIP.
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    Arnold Palmer, one of history's greatest golfers--and the only pro golfer to get a mention in a Bond film ("If that's his ball I'm Arnold Palmer"--Goldfinger)--has died at 87.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    http://www.007.com/global-james-bond-day/
    Hope everyone has a great " James Bond day" -{
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations to Brian Blessed on getting an OBE today. -{
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    RIP Jimmy Perry -{

    A tremendous scriptwriter that co-wrote some of the best comedies EVER {[]
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Jimmy Perry, thanks for all the laughs. {[]
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
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    Cheers, Mr Perry!

    Look out for a rare small role in the 1950s film School for Scoundrels, where he plays the twit who has enrolled and is asked to break the ice to his fellow students by offering up a joke...
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Just heard that Pete Burns and Bobby Vee have both died aged 57 and 73 respectively, RIP
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    Just heard that Pete Burns and Bobby Vee have both died aged 57 and 73 respectively, RIP

    Indeed...it was a shock to hear Pete Burns had died, yet not *that* much of a shock - RIP, gentlemen -{
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  • welshguy34welshguy34 Posts: 219MI6 Agent
    RIP to Jimmy Perry. Dads Army is still as great as ever.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Sir Jimmy Young has died aged 95, RIP
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    RIP Sir Jimmy Young - a broadcasting legend -{
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Leonard Cohen
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  • ACACIA_AVENUEACACIA_AVENUE UKPosts: 1,775MI6 Agent
    RIP Robert Vaughn
    The original 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.'
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  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    Sad day, Leonard Cohen and Robert Vaughan.
    Also all those we should remember on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month peace be with all of you.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Another childhood hero gone RIP Robert Vaughan, I loved TMFU and Hustle.
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Another childhood hero gone RIP Robert Vaughan, I loved TMFU and Hustle.

    And he was great in two 1970s Columbo episodes, 'Troubled Waters' and 'Last Salute to the Commodore'.

    Robert Vaughan was long one of my favourite actors. RIP, sir. :#
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Several cast members on " Hustle" said in Interviews, that they had to pinch themselves sometimes
    Knowing they were working with the last surviving member of The Magnificent Seven.
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    RIP Leonard Cohen also. Saw his new album was out just yesterday. -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • welshguy34welshguy34 Posts: 219MI6 Agent
    RIP Leonard Cohen. Sad also to just see that Robert Vaughan has died.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    RIP Robert Vaughn - Napoleon Solo was the coolest guy when I was growing up, well almost the coolest...

    Also loved him in Superman 3, despite the films shortcomings...
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    RIP Robert Vaughan - so good in so many films & tv series...especially liked him in The Magnificent Seven -{
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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,222MI6 Agent
    I was woken about 30 minutes ago (just before 6am my time) by a friend calling from England who told me about Robert Vaughn's passing. He was an icon to me, The Magnificent Seven is my favourite movie, TMFU, Hustle, Bullitt, Towering Inferno, Columbo and many more performances made him seem like an old friend. His autobiography A Fortunate Life is an excellent read. A very sad CHB this morning. RIP Dear Robert.
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    I always liked Robert Vaughn. . .maybe not a great actor, but always a reliable one. RIP to him--and to the wit that was Leonard Cohn!
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    I will tip my hat to the passing of my near namesake.

    It's a real shame they don't seem able to show stuff like The Man from UNCLE on British TV anymore. I very much enjoyed those shows in the 70s. I just don't understand it; surely a generation won't rush out to buy the DVDs if they don't even know the show exists.

    As for L Cohen, well, news of Trump's victory probably finished him off. Maybe he thought, even I couldn't write a song as depressing as that.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
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