What's all you good people watching on the telly ? Shorter title next time !
Birthday boy Gene Hackman, he's 95 today 💖
— Classic Actors Of Hollywood (@kezzie112.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T13:44:47.827Z
RIP OTD in 2006, prima ballerina and actress (The Red Shoes), Moira Shearer, died at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England at the age of 80. Durisdeer Cemetery, Durisdeer, Scotland thefinalfootprint.com/?p=1315
RIP OTD in 2015 actress and model (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Dead Reckoning, Desert Fury, Too Late for Tears) Lizabeth Scott died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, aged 92. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/31/day-in-history-31-january-moira-shearer/
Died #otd Terry Wogan (1938-2016), Radio and television broadcaster, 9 years ago today #TerryWogan life story...
RIP OTD in 1966 actor (Sherlock Jr., The General, The Cameraman, The Twilight Zone "Once Upon a Time"), comedian, filmmaker Buster Keaton died; lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California, aged 70. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills CA https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/01/day-in-history-1-february-space-shuttle-columbia/
RIP OTD in 2024 actor (Rocky, Predator, Action Jackson, Happy Gilmore), director, Carl Weathers died at his home in Los Angeles from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease aged 76. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/01/day
Happy Birthday David Jason, born this day in 1940.
— archivetvmusings (@archivetvmusings.bsky.social) 2025-02-02T09:04:39.507Z
RIP OTD in 1969, actor (Frankenstein, Scarface, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) Boris Karloff died from emphysema in King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex at age 81. Cremation. Memorial plaque at Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/02/day-in-history-2-february-gene-kelly/
RIP OTD in 1995 actor (The Great Escape, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, Halloween, Escape from New York) Donald Pleasence died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; heart failure after heart valve surgery, aged 75. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/02/day-in-history-2-february-gene-kelly/
RIP OTD in 1996, dancer, actor (Anchors Aweigh, On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh), singer, film director, producer, and choreographer, Gene Kelly, died at his home in Beverly Hills, aged 83. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/02/day-in-history-2-february-gene-kelly/
RIP OTD in 2014, actor (Twister, Boogie Nights, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous, Capote, Doubt, The Master, Mission: Impossible III), director, Philip Seymour Hoffman died; accidental drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, aged 46. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/02/day-in-history-2-february-gene-kelly/
RIP OTD in 1961, actress (Piccadilly, Daughter of the Dragon, Shanghai Express) Anna May Wong died of a heart attack as she slept at home in Santa Monica, aged 56. Cremated remains interred in her mother’s grave at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/
RIP OTD in 1989 actor (The Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby), director (Faces, A Woman Under the Influence), screenwriter, John Cassavetes died; cirrhosis of the liver complications; Los Angeles, aged 59. Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery, Los Angeles https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/
RIP OTD in 1996 actress (Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners), banker, advisory corporate director, Audrey Meadows died; lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 73. Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. To the moon Alice! https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/
RIP OTD in 2011, actress (The Last Tango in Paris, The Passenger) Maria Schneider died of breast cancer in Paris at age 58. Cremated remains scattered at sea at the foot of the Rock of the Virgin in Biarritz. https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/
RIP OTD in 2012 actor and director of film, stage, and television (The Thomas Crown Affair; Summer of Sam; Dogville; Paris, je t'aime) Ben Gazzara died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, aged 81. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/
RIP to the wonderful Brian Murphy who has died at the age of 92. He was fantastic in 'George And Mildred' ❤️
— Classic Actors Of Hollywood (@kezzie112.bsky.social) 2025-02-04T08:48:24.738Z
Born today in 1946.
#BornOnThisDay Happy Birthday to screen icon Charlotte Rampling, now and forever one of the coolest cats in town. A few images from a smattering of her Film Noir roles, including Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Verdict (1982), DOA (1988) and Swimming Pool (2003).
— Tipping My Fedora (@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T08:16:49.930Z
Barbara Hershey.February 5, 1948.
— Cliff (@iltriello1966.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T05:07:51.288Z