Final Curtain Call - Extinct Actors

[sherb]

Vale June Lockhart, who has passed at the grand age of 100.

Those of my vintage will remember her from shows such as Lost In Space, Lassie & Petticoat Junction.

RIP.

June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from Lassie and Lost In Space, dies aged 100

Lockhart died on Thursday of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, a family spokesperson says.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sherb]

Vale Prunella Scales, known to many as Sybil Fawlty.

It appears that she died on 27th October, which is John Cleese's birthday.

Prunella Scales death: Fawlty Towers actor dies aged 93

Actor was best known for playing the bossy wife to John Cleese’s eccentric hotelier Basil Fawlty in the acclaimed BBC sitcom

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Jacks Seething Rage]

Vale Prunella Scales, known to many as Sybil Fawlty.

It appears that she died on 27th October, which is John Cleese's birthday.

Prunella Scales death: Fawlty Towers actor dies aged 93

Actor was best known for playing the bossy wife to John Cleese’s eccentric hotelier Basil Fawlty in the acclaimed BBC sitcom

www.independent.co.uk

Hyacinth and Cybil gone within weeks of each other.

Loved them both.

 

[Revenant1995]

Another amazing actor gone. RIP Diane Ladd.

Breaking: Diane Ladd, three-time Oscar nominee, dies aged 89

Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to the protective mother in Wild at Heart, has died at 89.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Bletch]

Vale Pauline Collins. The original Shirley Valentine. 'Sarah' in Upstairs Downstairs, and a host of roles on stage and screen over a long career.

Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role to match her talent. She seized it with style and glee

The film for which the actor, who has died aged 85, is best-remembered is also that in which she was afforded most airtime. If only more film-makers had managed to channel her warm, sharp charm

www.theguardian.com

 

[Stamos]

Shocking

Rob Reiner, director of When Harry Met Sally, and wife found dead in apparent homicide

A family member is being questioned by investigators over the deaths of the veteran filmmaker and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Stamos]

Zed's dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/movies/peter-greene-dead.html

 

[Jacks Seething Rage]

Zed's dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/movies/peter-greene-dead.html

If you're going to be typecast it may as well be as the bad guy.

Those pale eyes...