Rising through the working men’s club circuit, the pair were massively popular in the early 1980s, leading to a misguided film, The Boys in Blue.
She died aged 85.Īt one point, Bobby Ball was one half of the most popular comedy double act in the UK, with straight man Tommy Cannon. The wife of Dom DeLuise and an actor in several Mel Brooks comedies – from Blazing Saddles through Silent Movie to Dracula: Dead and Loving It – Arthur also appeared in small roles in The World’s Greatest Lover, The Sunshine Boys and others, as well as appearing as Safety Sadie in a series of late Seventies/early Eighties public service announcements. The former head of Satanic organisation The Temple of Set. Appleton also produced the British end of Live Aid and the Nelson Mandela concert in 1988, before leaving to launch The Landscape Channel. Although mocked vigorously by throwaway music hipsters, the OGWT archives are essentially the history of music between the launch and its demise (the show suffering death by a thousand BBC cuts over several years) in 1987. More than anyone else, Mike Appleton was responsible for having rock music taken seriously – briefly – by the BBC when he became the producer of The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1971. Later in his career though, it was his voice that people recognised, as he spent eleven years narrating children’s show Thomas and Friends.
Whether in sit-coms like The Liver Birds or gritty dramas like Boys from the Black Stuff, Angelis was a familiar, laconic face on British TV he also appeared in the underrated dark comedy No Surrender. If you needed a Scouser in the 1970s or 1980s, Michael Angelis was your man. His films were few, but memorable – Sex and the College Girl, Scream Baby Scream, Revenge is My Destiny, Sammy Somebody (with Zalman King) and Convention Girls. Joseph Adler was an acclaimed American theatre director who won awards for his work on the stage, but outside the theatrical world, he is best known for his dabbling in exploitation cinema. He died of pneumonia and sepsis, aged 69. He’s probably not making contact with anyone from beyond the grave.
Best known for shouting “Mary loves Dick!” and being tricked into channelling spirits with names that were anagrams of ‘Derek lies’ and ‘Derek faker’, he was eventually fired from the show for – I kid you not – making things up. Here is our annual round-up of those who died this year, and like every other list, it is a somewhat curated one towards those we feel have some significance to Reprobate readers.Ī fake medium and spiritualist, best known for his work on the dreadful Most Haunted, a show that spawned the entire night-vision ghost hunting genre where nothing ever actually happens. Some of them are mourned internationally others die almost unnoticed. Looking back at the famous, the infamous and the interesting figures who we lost in the last year.Įvery year, we lose people who are interesting and significant figures.
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