Saturday, January 9, 2021

Deaths over the past week

I've been busy with work this week and didn't get to watch quite so many movies, so I decided to look up some clips of people who died in the first week of 2021.

Tanya Roberts died on Tuesday at the age of 65, although erroneous reports of her death had come out a day or two before. She's probably best known for playing Stacey Sutton, one of the two main female characters in the Bond movie A View to a Kill, the other one being played by Grace Jones. Here's Roberts with Roger Moore:

Also dying on Tuesday was Barbara Shelley, who appeared in several Hammer horror movies; she was 88. In addition to the Hammer movies, another relatively big role was as George Sanders' wife in the 1960 version of Village of the Damned. Here's the trailer:

Thursday saw the death of Marian Ramsey at the age of 73. She's probably best remembered for playing Laverne Hooks in several of the Police Academy movies. Here she is in a clip from Police Academy 3:

Finally, I should mention British director Michael Apted, who died on Thursday aged 79. He directed Sissy Spacek to an Oscar in Coal Miner's Daughter, directed a couple more Oscar-nominated performances, and a later Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. There's also several later installments in the British Up series, a longitudinal documentary series looking at several British people born in 1956 every 7 years of their lives starting at age 7 in 1963. Here's a TV spot for Coal Miner's Daughter:

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