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Post by jimsteel on Aug 4, 2017 7:47:50 GMT -5
  Hywel Bennett, star of television and film, dies aged 73 Actor Hywel Bennett, known for his roles in Shelley and EastEnders, has died aged 73, his agent has confirmed. The Carmarthenshire-born actor's roles included 1960s films The Family Way, with Hayley and John Mills, and The Virgin Soldiers, with Lynn Redgrave. But it was in the long-running sitcom Shelley that he made his name. Bennett - whose other television roles included Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Pennies from Heaven - played the title role in the series. It ran from 1979 to 1984 and told the story of an unemployed man living in a London bedsit. He later reprised the role in The Return of Shelley, which ran from 1988 to 1992. He joined EastEnders in 2003 as Jack Dalton, a gangland boss who ended up being killed in an act of revenge. He also featured in episodes of Last of the Summer Wine and in the Dennis Potter mini-series Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. Bennett appeared as Peter Baxter in The Bill for five years. His last known role was as Reggie Conway in The Last Detective in 2007 |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 6, 2017 22:26:49 GMT -5
 Former Philadelphia Phillies catcher Darren Daulton has passed away at the age of 55 after a four-year battle with brain cancer, the team announced Sunday night. Born on January 3, 1962, Daulton attended Arkansas City (KS) High School. He was selected in the 25th round - the 628th overall selection - of the 1980 June draft by the Phillies. He developed into a three-time All-Star who played 14 seasons with the Phillies (1983; 1985-97), the longest tenure for a catcher in franchise history. Known throughout baseball as one of the game's toughest players, Daulton made 143 starts at catcher in 1993, which was the most in Phillies history and tied for the most by any catcher that season. The Phillies won the National League pennant that year with Daulton's leadership playing a significant role. Daulton was traded to the Florida Marlins on July 21, 1997, where he would spend the final two and a half months of his playing career. The Marlins would go on to win the World Series that year and manager Jim Leyland credited Daulton's clubhouse leadership as an important factor. In 1992, Daulton won a Silver Slugger and led the National League with 109 RBI, becoming just the fourth catcher to win the RBI title. He is the only catcher in Phillies history with two 100-RBI seasons (109 in 1992 and 105 in 1993) and holds the Phillies single-season records for a catcher in walks (117), doubles (35), putouts (981) and double plays (19). Each record was set in 1993. Daulton batted .245 in 1,109 Phillies games with 189 doubles, 134 home runs and 567 RBI. Daulton received the Players Choice Comeback Player of the Year Award (1997) and the Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award (1997). He was inducted into the Reading Baseball Hall of Fame (1997). He was also selected as the starting catcher on the All-Vet Team (2003) and was inducted into the Phillies Wall of Fame (2010). |
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Post by Crimson Cross on Aug 7, 2017 6:52:52 GMT -5
I did not know the battle Darren Daulton had, he was one of my favorite Phillies. RIP...
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Post by TTX on Aug 7, 2017 9:13:48 GMT -5
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Post by TDalton on Aug 7, 2017 14:40:08 GMT -5
Really tough one for me. Saw Baylor come up as an outfielder through the AAA Rochester Red Wings in 70-71. He was my favorite Red Wings player, along with shortstop Bobby Grich. Orioles had a hell of a farm system back then. Baylor just had that look of an athlete. |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 7, 2017 16:25:48 GMT -5
  GODZILLA DEAD The man behind the monster has died: Haruo Nakajima, who wore the Godzilla bodysuit for every “Godzilla” film from the original to 1972’s “Godzilla vs. Gigan,” has died at 88. The International Business Times was among several media outlets reporting his death. Nakajima’s career began in samurai and war films, notably “Seven Samurai” by Akira Kurosawa and “Eagle of the Pacific.” He landed the “Godzilla” role starting with 1954’s “Godzilla, King of the Monsters,” directed by Ishiro Honda |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 7, 2017 16:30:56 GMT -5
  Ty Hardin, who roamed the West searching for adventure in the television series “Bronco” in the late 1950s and early ’60s, died on Thursday in Huntington Beach, Calif. He was 87. His wife, Caroline, confirmed his death, but said the cause had not been determined. In a television landscape crowded with gunslingers like Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Lucas McCain (the Rifleman) and Bret Maverick, Mr. Hardin carved a niche playing Bronco Layne, a soft-spoken loner slow to anger but quick on the draw and skilled in the saddle. “There ain’t a horse that he can’t handle, that’s how he got his name,” a line in the show’s theme song went. First introduced on the series “Cheyenne” in 1958, Bronco, formerly a captain in the Confederate Army, held various jobs as he traveled — Army scout, deputy sheriff, wagon-train master, undercover post-office agent and miner among them — and encountered colorful historical characters along the way, notably Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok and Jesse James (played by James Coburn). |
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Post by Shane Sullivan on Aug 7, 2017 23:56:22 GMT -5
Really tough one for me. Saw Baylor come up as an outfielder through the AAA Rochester Red Wings in 70-71. He was my favorite Red Wings player, along with shortstop Bobby Grich. Orioles had a hell of a farm system back then. Baylor just had that look of an athlete. Baylor was the man in 79' mlb.com/r/article?ymd=20170807&content_id=246983370&vkey=news_ana&c_id=anaThis article is a great tribute. |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 8, 2017 15:59:22 GMT -5
 Glen Campbell -- legendary country music singer best known for his 1975 hit, "Rhinestone Cowboy" -- has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's ... TMZ has learned. Campbell died Tuesday around 10 AM in a Nashville facility for Alzheimer's patients ... according to a source close to his family. The musician released more than 70 albums over a 50-year career, and had a series of hits in the '60s and '70s including "Gentle on My Mind," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston," "Country Boy" and his best-selling single, "Rhinestone Cowboy." |
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Post by TTX on Aug 8, 2017 17:23:24 GMT -5
RIP Glen.
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