R.I.P. (2006)

[Phoenix]

RIP Mr. Benchley.

[slayrrr666]

RIP Mr. Benchley.

[Heineken Skywalker]

R.I.P. Peter Benchley.
Thanks for the good book and inspiring a great movie.

[frankenjohn]

Dunnn nuh...

R.I.P.

[Heineken Skywalker]

'Star Wars' Actor Brown Dies

Actor Phil Brown, best known for playing Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen in Star Wars, has died of pneumonia. He was 89. The Massachusetts-born actor died at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California on Thursday, according to his widow Ginny. After starring in movies and TV shows in the 1940s, Brown moved to London in the 1950s after he was wrongly blacklisted during the Communist scares in the United States. Star Wars director George Lucas cast Brown while filming scenes for the 1977 sci-fi epic in London, and his fame playing Uncle Owen in the movie lead to his return to America. Brown is survived by widow Ginny, their son Kevin, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

I actually met him a couple of years ago. Very polite and friendly when signing an autograph for me. R.I.P.

[Quorthon]

Everyone leaves in the end...

[LivingDeadGirl]

I heard about that on the radio this morning...RIP...

[slayrrr666]

My little sister will be crushed when she finds out, as she didn't like that he died in the movie. RIP, and I'd hate to have to explain it to her that he has now died in real life.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Yeah...that would be hard. How old is she?

[slayrrr666]

She'll turn 14 at the end of next month. She's the youngest, the older sister is 20.

[Pulpmariachi]

Don Knotts: 1924-2006


Don Knotts, the irrepressible comic actor who won five Emmys as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, died Friday night in Los Angeles; he was 81. Knotts died of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, and had recently suffered health problems that kept him from making an appearance at his hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, last August. Knotts started out in entertainment as a ventriloquist before returning to college and then enlisting in the army at the onset of World War II. After the war and college, he returned to New York and pursued a career in radio and television; he nabbed a part as a psychiatrist in the Broadway play No Time for Sergeants, which starred actor Andy Griffith. He reprised his role in the film version, and after moving to Los Angeles, was cast opposite Griffith in the actor's eponymous sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show. The show ran from 1960-1968, and Knotts won an unprecedented five Best Supporting Actor Emmys in a row as manic deputy Barney Fife, a role for which he would forever be identified. After leaving the show, Knotts embarked on a film career, appearing in family-friendly films such as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Reluctant Astronaut and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, among others. His career in the 70s was marked primarily by Disney films such as The Apple Dumpling Gang and No Deposit, No Return, until he joined the sitcom Three's Company in the middle of the show's run as the bumbling landlord Mr. Furley, forever interfering in his tenant's lives. After Three's Company, Knotts made innumerable appearances in television shows and occasionally films; one of his most notable recent roles was as a mysterious television repairman who sets strange events in motion in the film Pleasantville. Knotts was married twice, to Kay Mets from 1948-1969, with whom he had two children, and to Lara Lee Szuchna from 1974 to 1983

[Heineken Skywalker]

Read about this earlier today.
And yet another classic tv star is gone. What a drag.
R.I.P.

[ZapRowsdower]

Damn it, that sucks. I grew up on that guy.

R.I.P. Mr. Furly.

[slayrrr666]

RIP Mr. Furley. You will be missed.

[LivingDeadGirl]

My mom told me about it this morning....he'll be missed.

ewww, I really felt my age b/c you guys were referring to him as "Mr. Furly" & the first character I remember him as is Barney Fife from watching the Andy Griffith Show. The re-runs, of course...