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| | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | OP  Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | These people still provide our inspiration.
30 Jul 2022 - Nichelle Nichols, actor, Lt Uhura from Star Trek, Heroes, pioneer and trailblazer, worked for NASA
11 Oct 2022 - Angela Lansbury, actor, The Court Jester, The Manchurian Candidate, Murder She Wrote etc
14 Oct 2022 - Robbie Coltrane - actor & comedian, Hagrid, Fitz, Black Adder and two James Bond films
07 Jan 2023 - Adam Rich - Eight is Enough, voiceover on cartoon series of Dungeons & Dragons
28 Jan 2023 - Lisa Loring the original Wednesday Addams
29 Jan 2023 - Annie Wersching, the Borg Queen
17 Mar 2023 - Lance Reddick, The Wire, Fringe, Bosch, John Wick, Lost
20 Mar 2023 - Paul Grant, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Labyrinth, Legend, Willow
01 Apr 2023 - Klaus Teuber, inventor of Catan
10 Apr 2023 - Al Jaffee, cartoonist MAD magazine
12 Jun 2023 - Treat Williams, actor, Hair, 1941, Everwood, Deep End of the Ocean
14 Jan 2024 - Our Ilyana, friend and inspiration to all, ran The Bird & Baby (TBB) on CIS, followed us here until her health failed
24 Feb 2024 - Kenneth Mitchell, actor on Star Trek Discovery, Captain Marvel, Grimm etc.
20 Mar 2024 - Vernor Vinge, Sci-Fi author, Rainbows End, A Fire Upon the Deep (Hugo Award)
29 Mar 2024 - Chance Perdomom, UK/USA actor, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gen V, Killed by my Debt.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 Administrator | | Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 | 11 Oct 2022 - Angela Lansbury, actor, The Court Jester, The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Murder She Wrote | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 |
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,137 Likes: 8 (Buffalo) Moderator | | (Buffalo) Moderator Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,137 Likes: 8 | Robbie Coltrane - Hagrid in Harry Potter. 10/14/22. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,464 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,464 Likes: 7 | | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,971 Likes: 1 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,971 Likes: 1 |
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | We are losing too many of late :-/
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | Hagrid, sad  but I also loved him as Fitz a crime psychologist in Cracker, great series but not sure if it was shown in the States. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 Coordinator of Chaos Member |  Coordinator of Chaos Member Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 | Seems to be the spot for this... Lisa Loring the original Wednesday Addams passed 1/28/2023 | | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 | Annie Wersching, the Borg Queen on the 29th January | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | I'll add both. Enjoyed watching both too!  | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | Damn!!
The only thing worse than losing so many of my favorite folk would be joining them :-/ (at least so far <weg>)
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Lance Reddick
3/17/23
Played on: Lost, Fringe, Legend of Vox Machina, The Wire, and a lot more.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | I didn't recognize the name at all and had to look him up <sigh> And while I didn't recognize the name, I =certainly= recognized the face from all the =great= movies he was in <vbg> You didn't mention the John Wick movies which I remember more than the others <g>
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Mike, not a John Wick fan, so did not know he was in those 
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | And Bosch! Sad! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,137 Likes: 8 (Buffalo) Moderator | | (Buffalo) Moderator Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,137 Likes: 8 | Paul Grant - Star Wars and Harry Potter. March 19th. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | Damn ... pretty soon everyone I know will be gone :-/
MikeD
| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | .. and they are getting younger!  | | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 | .. and they are getting younger! More and more often I ralise that those that are passing are youger than me. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | Scary isn't it? | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | 's better than the alternative!!!
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 5,638 Likes: 5 | 's better than the alternative!!! indeed! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 Administrator | | Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 | | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 |
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | I play that game several times a week! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 22,963 Numbers Geek Moderator | | Numbers Geek Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 22,963 | Al Jaffee, passed April 10, 2023 at the age of 102. A cartoonist, probably best known for his work in Mad magazine. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 Coordinator of Chaos Member | | Coordinator of Chaos Member Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 | Had to look him up. But he drew two of my favorite parts of Mad Magazine. The Fold in and Hawks and Doves. That fold in took some talent. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | Well I can hope that I make it that long!! Way to go Al!!! And thanks for making Mad so worth reading!!!
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Monday June 12: Treat Williams
Treat starred in two of my favorite movies The Phantom and Deep Rising. He was also in Dead Heat, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Age of Dinosaurs. Treat died in a motorcycle accident. He was 71.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 Coordinator of Chaos Member | | Coordinator of Chaos Member Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 5,099 Likes: 13 | Damn.. he was fun in 1941. Looked him up he also did a lot of Broadway. Was in Grease and Pirates of Penzance | | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | The pre-July 2022 thread is locked or I would have posted there... I just googled and found out that Dorothy Jones Heydt died on June 28, 2022. She was the author of two of my favorite books; Point of Honor as Dorothy J. Heydt, and The Interior Life as Katherine Blake. I truly wish she had written more, as both of those books are so wonderful and even with many rereads, they still pull me into the story. While I never met her, I wish I had. I am definitely a huge fan of her two novels. From Wikipedia: Dorothy Jones Heydt[1] (1942-2022) was a United States author of science fiction and fantasy. She lived on the U.S. West Coast and was an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She was the originator of the "Eight Deadly Words" ("I don't care what happens to these people"), and other fan quotes. She was the originator and first editor of the Star Trek Concordance, an extensive resource guide first published in March 1969.
A linguist, she invented one of the first widely used Vulcan conlangs in 1967 for a Star Trek fan fiction series. Its words were picked up and used by other fan fiction authors such as Claire Gabriel. One term, ni var, meaning "two form", an art form in which two contrasting aspects of a subject are compared,[2] is still used on Star Trek: Enterprise, as the name of a Vulcan ship and on Star Trek: Discovery as the new name of the planet Vulcan itself.
She wrote numerous short stories and two novels; she sometimes wrote as "Katherine Blake." Many of her stories appeared in collections edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, including the Sword and Sorceress series, and stories in the Darkover series shared world. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine published many of her stories.
While not one of the founding members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she did participate in the early years and helped establish important elements of the ceremonies, such as the oath of fealty used in peerage ceremonies.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | No worries Mina!  I used my sysop magic and it is now recorded in the right place!  Thanks! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | One thing Mina ... I would rather that an author wrote 2 amazing books than half a dozen mediocre books <g>
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Mike, I completely agree, though I do wish either book had a follow up to it
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,120 Likes: 5 | I have had a few books like that to, so I get it <sigh>
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Point of Honor was so well done, Mike, but honestly The Interior Life was kind of unique when it comes to fantasy novels. I can read that one multiple times (and have). I picked it up in a used bookstore when I was a preteen and fell in love with it.
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Adam Rich died January 7, 2023. He played Presto on the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.![[Linked Image from farm2.static.flickr.com]](https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1369378538_bbcbfcd5bb.jpg)
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | | | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Kenneth Mitchell (November 25, 1974 – February 24, 2024)
Kenneth was an actor on Star Trek Discover, Captain Marvel, Grimm and many other sci-fi and fantasy tv shows.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | Got it! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 Administrator | | Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,542 | I just found out about Barbara Houston (Ilyanna) (August 28, 1950 - January 14, 2024). | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | Oh DAMN! I had so many good games with Ilyanna! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,028 Likes: 7 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,028 Likes: 7 | 😢 She was lovely to write with over the years. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | OP Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,500 Likes: 57 | So many memories. She was one of the greats! | | 1 member likes this:
Denis | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,971 Likes: 1 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,971 Likes: 1 | That is so sad! She was a terrific GM and player. I miss her!
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| | | | | Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 Mayhem Inc. Moderator | | Mayhem Inc. Moderator Joined: May 2010 Posts: 16,039 Likes: 20 | Chance Perdomo passed on March 29, 2024. He co-starred in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Gen V.
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