The well-known English character actor Derren Nesbitt was found still living at his Sonning home yesterday. “I’m Not Dead Yet!” quipped Derren, famous for his roles as wet-lipped, creepy, peroxide pretty-boy villains. Born in 1935, the actor described at IMDb as “rather intriguing” stepped out of character for the self-written, self-directed comedy “The Amorous Milkman”, where he played a wet-lipped, creepy, peroxide pretty-boy milkman. Considered by some as the British Rutger Hauer (another actor as pleasant off-screen as on), Derren, declared a National Treasure in 2002, today enjoys pottering in his greenhouse and curating his extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia.
Anybody else Not Dead Yet?
Donovan
Me.
Ernie Winchester, Aberdeen FC’s bustling burly centre-forward. One goal for every 23 misses.
Sung to the tune of the TV advert for Guinness:
“And after work we all agree
Ernie should have scored three”.
Oh bugger, just checked – he is in fact, dead
I can’t remember which goalkeeper was nicknamed the Ancient Mariner because ‘he stoppeth one of three’.
Weeeeeeell, if you say, but even his wiki page skirts over his life changing injury, during the filming of Where Eagles Dare. There is a broad body of opinion that suggests that, when he was “temporarily blinded”, he was in fact vaporised by the rogue squib. Of course it was all hushed up, with instructionss coming from right at the top, to replace him with bit part character actors. This was standard practice in the world of film, but there are instances of this in everyday life. I know for a fact that some left over pieces of Sam Kydd were used also after one of my patients went up in a puff of smoke, at Birminghams long missed department store, Lewis’s. Nesbitt was mainly replaced by an amalgam of Hugh Lloyd and Richard Hearne. This had, conveniently, no effect on their own careers.
This is an interesting theory: but I would suggest that no actor – NO actor – at the time could “body double” for the Nesbitt lips. Remember this was many years prior to the ubiquity (if not the invention) of the “lip plumper” injection. At the time the only actors with lips like Nesbitt were the Gerry Anderson team.
“Gerry Anderson lips” – a fine observation. Actually, with the addition of strings and a stiff uniform made of felt, Derrie could pass for a Thunderbird.
Lord Lucan.
Someone has to do it.
Gerry Rafferty?
Mike Berry
🙋🏻♂️
Paul McCartney, despite some believing he perished in 1966
Wait, what? You mean – that’s the REAL one?
Chubby Checker.
Tommy Steel
Robin Askwith, recently seen on the Madame Blanc series that in terms of quality television makes Death in Paradise look like The World At War
Saw RA in one of those Ray Cooney farces at the Mill theatre in Sonning a few years ago. His face was so red I thought he was about to have a stroke
Donovan, though I seem to recall that sometime in the seventies when he played a gig someone shouted “I thought you were dead”
Freddy “Parrot Face” Davis
Marshall Allen (saxophonist, bandleader – Sun Ra Arkestra), 99 years old.
Barbara Rush (actress), 96 years old.
Mel Brooks (actor, director, producer) 97 years old.
Dick Van Dyke (actor), 98 years old.
Lee Grant (actress), 98 years old.
June Lockhart (actress), 98 years old.
Eva Marie Saint (actress), 99 years old.
Walter Mirisch (film producer), 100 years old.
June Spencer (actress, The Archers – Peggy Wooley), 103 years old.
@Mike_H sadly Barbara Rush left us just a few days back.
Rupert Murdoch.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-rupert-murdochs-new-russian-born-fiancee-brings-him-closer-to-putins/
“… it seems appropriate that America’s premier purveyor of conspiracy theories would become engaged in his twilight years to an ex-Soviet scientist whose daughter was long part of Mr. Putin’s orbit.”
Damn! For a moment there my spirits soared when I misread the last three words as “Mr Putin’s obit”
Baby-faced American actor, Neil McDonagh (Band of Brothers, Justified, etc, etc)
could be DN’s love child from a long ago US tryst
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE*, is still around aged 96.
Born Clementine Dinah Hitching in 1927 in Southall.