Well known personalities who have passed away recently (Renamed)

[facthunter]

Some people are really nice.  Nev

[red750]

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has died aged 97.

[octave]

Here is a cameo appearance by Jim Lovell in the film Apollo 13.  He plays the captain of the recovery ship.   

 

 

[onetrack]

David Stratton, the well known Australian film critic, has passed away at the age of 85. He and his on-screen partner, Margaret Pomeranz, starred in film review shows for 28 years.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-14/david-stratton-english-australian-film-critic-obituary/105654394

 

Edited August 14 by onetrack

[red750]

Former Australian cricket captain and coach Bob Simpson dies, aged 89.

 

Simpson was a giant figure in Australian cricket for more than four decades, playing 62 Test matches, famously emerging from retirement at age 41 to lead Australia during the World Series Cricket era, and later becoming the nation’s first full-time coach.

 

As a player, Simpson took until his 30th Test to crack his first century but turned it into 311 and batted for almost 13 hours at Old Trafford.

 

He formed with Bill Lawry one of Australia’s greatest opening partnerships, in an era without protective equipment.

 

Simpson and Lawry still share the record partnership for an Australian opening pair – 382 against the West Indies in 1965.

[facthunter]

 Would that  be when  Wally Grout was wicket keeping? I remember moving to Melbourne in April of that year to do some flying.  Nev

[red750]

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits Superman and Superman II, has died aged 87, his family said.

 

The Oscar-nominated actor starred in films ranging from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem in 1968 and A Season in Hell in 1971 to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994, in which he played trans woman Bernadette Bassenger.

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994, in which he played trans woman Bernadette Bassenger.

Was she a bassenger on the pus?

[facthunter]

0 E. Nev

[pmccarthy]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

Was she a bassenger on the pus?

Don't think she had a pus.

[facthunter]

It's a Coach. Nev