GONE TOO SOON

REMEMBERING THOSE WHO MET WITH UNTIMELY ENDS

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GAVIN MAXWELL (1914-1969)  --  NATURALIST AND AUTHOR BEST KNOWN FOR HIS NON-FICTION WRITING AND WORK WITH OTTERS. HIS BOOK, “RING OF BRIGHT WATER” (1960) WHICH DESCRIBES HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AN OTTER THAT HE BROUGHT BACK FROM IRAQ, SOLD MORE THAN A MILLION COPIES. HE DIED OF CANCER AT THE AGE OF 55.

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SCOTTISH MUSICIAN WHO WAS INFLUENTIAL IN THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN CELTIC FUSION (A BLENDING OF TRADITIONAL CELTIC AND MODERN MUSIC). HE DIED OF CANCER AT THE AGE OF 33.

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ROBERT LA TOURNEAUX (1941-1986)

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PIERRE CLEMENTI (1942-1999)  --  FRENCH ACTOR WHO MADE FILMS WITH MANY OF THE LEADING EUROPEAN DIRECTORS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S. HE WAS JAILED IN 1972 FOR POSSESSING OR USING DRUGS BUT WAS FREED 17 MONTHS LATER DUE TO A LACK OF EVIDENCE (LATER HE WROTE ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES IN PRISON). HE DIED OF LIVER CANCER AT THE AGE OF 57. (The images above are all stills from the 1967 film Belle de Jour.) 

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Mama Cass

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Silvana Mangano (not Silvano Mangana, my nickname ;)

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Silvana Mangano (1930-1989)

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Gaspard Ulliel | La princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier Fr. 2010) 

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andy gibb, shadow dancing |1978|

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andy gibb, i just want to be your everything 1977

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charlie’s angels, classic t.v.

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bee gees, too much heaven |1978|

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ANN SHERIDAN (1915-1967)  -- AMERICAN FILM ACTRESS AND SINGER WHO APPEARED IN THE FILM (see bottom two images) “THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER” (1942). SHE DIED OF LIVER CANCER AT THE AGE OF 51.

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Jean Seberg

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GEORGIA BROWN (1933-1992)  --  ENGLISH SINGER AND ACTRESS BEST KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS NANCY IN THE BRITISH STAGE MUSICAL “OLIVER”  IN WHICH SHE SANG THE POPULAR SONG “AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME”.  SHE DIED AT AGE 58 FROM COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING SURGERY TO REMOVE AN INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION AT CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.

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CASS ELLIOT /MAMA CASS (1941-1974)  --  AMERICAN SINGER, ACTRESS AND MEMBER OF THE 1960S POP GROUP “THE MAMAS AND PAPAS”. FOLLOWING THE BREAK-UP OF THE GROUP CASS RELEASED FIVE SOLO ALBUMS AND IN 1998 SHE WAS POSTHUMOUSLY INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOR HER WORK WITH THE MAMAS AND PAPAS. SHE DIED IN 1974 OF HEART FAILURE AT THE AGE OF 32. CASS LEFT BEHIND A 7-YEAR-0LD DAUGHTER, OWEN, WHO WAS RAISED WITH HER MATERNAL AUNT AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER.

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