Indeed, quite a loss, but what great work to be remembered for.
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Oh, that one hits me. I’ve always been a huge fan of his work. He seemed to be in almost everything that came out of Britain for awhile in the 70s and 80s. Such a powerful presence.
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His performance in Nicholas Meyers’ Time After Time has always been a favorite, but I liked him in everything. Even Star Trek" The Final Frontier (as a consolation for being in that turkey, he got to come back for the superior follow up, The Undiscovered Country, albeit under Klingon makeup).
RIP
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He was magnificent in The Undiscovered Country as Klingon Abraham Lincoln
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For me, David Warner is THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE; PROVIDENCE, STAR TREK, and, most of all, TRON.
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Writer, producer, director, and a quintessential artist of the 1960’s–as important for his own work, as for the work he helped bring about. Would we really want a world sans The Monkees?
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This so soon after Ray Liotta…
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That’s scary, I was just reading about him last night!
Update: I guess I will just update this post as needed…
And now to bring this one to a close…
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Another piece of the childhood goes.
Although nowhere near his most notable role, was in one of the better bits of Casino Royale 1967.
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Rest in peace Bernard Cribbins.
He had a long a varied career
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Gutted to hear of this. Warmth seems to be such a rare quality these days. Cribbins had it in spades.
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R.I.P.
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She literally made the world a better place.
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Another legend gone.
Oh no RIP
She helped make Disney villains iconic again.
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R.I.P. to the greatest sports announcer of all time–Vin Scully.
He didn’t just do the play-by-play of Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers games, he also broadcasted Major League Baseball’s Game of the Week and World Series telecasts, National Football League games, and Professional Golf Association telecasts–and he broadcasted on both television and radio.
He did Dodger games for 67 (!!!) years from 1950-2016, the final 63 as the play-by-play announcer. Among his 10 most famous calls were:
1: the Brooklyn Dodgers winning their only World Series in 1955 before they moved to LA three years later
2: the New York Yankees’ Don Larsen throwing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series
3: the LA Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax throwing a perfect game in 1965 for his fourth career no-hitter
4: the Atlanta Braves’ Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs in 1974
5: the San Francisco 49ers’ Dwight Clark making “The Catch” from a Joe Montana pass in the 1981 NFC Championship to go to the Super Bowl
6: the St. Louis Cardinals’ Jack Clark winning the 1985 NLCS with a 9th inning home run in Game 6 to send the Cardinals to the World Series
7: Ray Knight scoring the winning run on an error to cap the New York Mets’ improbable comeback in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series
8: An injured Kirk Gibson doing his Robert Redford impersonation of Roy Hobbs from the classic film The Natural in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series with a two-run home run to give the Dodgers a highly dramatic and equally unlikely come-from-behind victory in the bottom of the ninth while at the same time showing that life can imitate art
9: the Minnesota Twins’ winning the 1991 World Series with a walk-off base hit in the 10th inning of Game 7
10: the Toronto Blue Jays’ Joe Carter winning the 1993 World Series with a three-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 6
Scully was a master storyteller who entertained millions of fans over the years. He was so good at his job that thousands of Dodger fans would regularly listen to him broadcast the games over their transistor radios WHILE AT THE GAME! And he would always capture the impact or poignancy of the moment exactly right EVERY SINGLE TIME.
When longtime Dodger fan favorite and Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela threw his only career no-hitter toward the end of his career in 1990, Scully memorably said, “If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!”
And of course, on describing a gimpy Kirk Gibson’s iconic home run that gave the massive underdog Dodgers a dramatic 5-4 victory over the powerful Oakland Athletics, and which would eventually propel them on to the world title, Scully said, “High fly ball into right field…she is gone!..In a year that has been so improbable, the IMPOSSIBLE has happened!”
Vin Scully was simply the greatest of all time. There will never be another like him. He will be sorely missed. R.I.P. Mr. Scully. You were a legend.
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