A once-weekly roundup,
usually on Sundays

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give ’em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
         

Patrick Adiarte
actor, M*A*S*H

Mike Berry
actor, Are You Being Served?

Les Binks
rock’n’roller, Judas Priest

Jesus H Christ
purported son of God

Mac Gayden
rock’n’roller, “Everlasting Love”

James Gibbons
banker but not a dick

Kerry Greenwood
author, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

Nicky Katt
actor, Dazed and Confused

Ted Kotcheff
film director, First Blood

Denton Loudermill Jr.
an innocent man

Jean Marsh
actress, Doctor Who

Wink Martindale
game show host, Tic-Tac-Dough

Robert E. McGinnis
movie posters, Barbarella

Mark Mencini
forgotten person

Joe Nickell
debunker

Mel Novak
actor, Black Belt Jones

Dale Sanders
“advocate for the oppressed”

Kim Shin-jo
almost an assassin

Gretchen Dow Simpson
artist, New Yorker covers

Nino Tempo
rock’n’roller, “Deep Purple”

Jennifer Toth
journalist & author, The Mole People

Joey D. Vieira
actor, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Lenny Welch
singer, “A Taste of Honey”

Drew Zingg
rock’n’roller, Steely Dan

Last week’s dead people

4/20/2025

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