Frank Finlay dies aged 89

[Shaker]

Not as immediately famous and as big a name as the recent spate of celebrity deaths but worth marking as he was a magnificent actor - perhaps best known for the then-controversial (if you're old enough) Bouquet of Barbed Wire back in the 70s but with a busy career on stage and on both screens:

http://goo.gl/IAc9lY

The roll-call of deaths this past month is becoming seriously depressing

(Just realised that perhaps this might go better in LMA&E - feel free to move it if desired).

[Bubbles]

Yes, I remember him.

I'm wondering if it's to do with our age, all the ones famous in our teens are starting to pop off now.

 

There just seem to have been so many this month 

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Not as immediately famous and as big a name as the recent spate of celebrity deaths but worth marking as he was a magnificent actor - perhaps best known for the then-controversial (if you're old enough) Bouquet of Barbed Wire back in the 70s but with a busy career on stage and on both screens:

http://goo.gl/IAc9lY

The roll-call of deaths this past month is becoming seriously depressing

(Just realised that perhaps this might go better in LMA&E - feel free to move it if desired).

I can remember him in the TV series Casanova (1971). Not as enjoyably eccentric as Fellini's film of 1978, but controversial for it's time.

[Nearly Sane]

Casanova was a bit early for me but I've watched it since and I don't feel it has aged well - they stretched out the story too much beyond what it would bear.

I remember him from the time as a lovely Porthos, a good Van Helsing, and a nutty Witchsmeller Pursuivant