by David Todd | Feb 6, 2020 | On a Sadder Note, Space Arts
The venerable actor Kirk Douglas has finally passed away in February 2020 away at the age of 103. While the acclaimed US actor, who was this son of a Russian Jewish emigre, did not make many space or science fiction films – only the unmemorable Saturn 3 (1980)...
by David Todd | Jan 30, 2020 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Regular readers of this column note that we celebrate the lives of aerospace (and sometimes comedy) heroes of the past who have recently died. One of these pilot heroes is Wing Commander Paul Farnes who has passed away at the age of 101. He was a RAF fighter pilot...
by David Todd | Jan 22, 2020 | On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
The comedy actor/director/writer Terry Jones has died at the age of 77 after suffering from a form of dementia. He was famously one of the Monty Python comedy team which gave rise to a seminal comedy television series and film series. Having co-directed the earlier...
by David Todd | Dec 31, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
We are sad to record the passing here of self taught TV botanist and naturalist David Bellamy who has died at the age of 86. Bellamy with his beard and slight speech impediment became famous on British television during the 1970s and 1980s and did much to promote the...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2019 | On a Sadder Note
Flight Lieutenant Maurice Moundson has passed away at the age 101. As an RAF fighter pilot flying a multi-machine gun armed Hawker Hurricane in the World War II “Battle of Britain” in 1940, he had a probable “kill” when he destroyed a Junkers...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2019 | On a Sadder Note
We are sad not note the passing of comedian, and theatre director Sir Jonathan Miller. While he originally trained as a doctor at Cambridge University, Sir Jonathan Miller made his name as a comic wit starting off in the Beyond the Fringe satirical show which featured...
