the_priest wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:02 am
No more heavy breathing. Luke's dad has gone on. RIP David Prowse.
I met him in 2013 when I was laid up with 3 broken ribs and a collapsed lung in St. George's Hospital in Tooting.
He was in the next but one bed from me.
Had a few chats with him, and he seemed like a very nice bloke.
RIP.
The end of and era. At the end though he was becoming the Ron Manager of Golf commentary, which I found really funny but those REALLY interested in golf got the hump with !
Well, just got a text from my brother about this one, its someone who lived next door but one to me when I was a kid (next door but one was about a quarter of a mile away) and he was the first person to take me climbing properly with a harness and so on instead of just pissing about up some rocks. I used to clamber about on the walls of his barn with his daughter when I was about ten or so.
I've not seen him for years now and last time was at one of his lectures, he spotted me and asked what I was upto and so on. Afterwards someone at the lecture came up and asked me who I was in a kind of hushed tone. I replied with my name which didn't help at all. Not a famous climber, just a lad who lived up the hill.
He was a nice, quiet man. Not in the least bit flashy or gobby, just did his thing with no fuss.
I'm genuinely saddened by this news cos I would say he was a hero of mine.
List of his achievements from Wikipedia...
"Highlights of Doug Scott's climbing career include:
1965: Tarso Tiroko, Tibesti mountains of Chad with Ray Gillies, Clive Davies and Pete Warrington
1967: South face of Koh-i-Bandaka, Hindu Kush with Ray Gillies
1970: Salathe Wall of El Capitan with Peter Habeler
1972: Mount Asgard, Baffin Island with Dennis Hennek, Paul Nunn and Paul Braithwaite
1974: Changabang, first ascent with Bonington, Haston et al.
1974: Pic Lenin, Pamirs, with Clive Rowland, Guy Lee, Braithwaite
1975: Southwest face of Everest, with Haston
1976: South face Denali, Alaska, with Haston
1977: Baintha Brakk (more commonly known as The Ogre), Karakoram, with Bonington, and descent with both legs broken at the ankle with the selfless help of Mo Anthoine and Clive Rowland
1978: Mount Waddington, Canada, with Rob Wood
1979: North ridge of Kangchenjunga, with Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker.
1979: Nuptse, North face, Nepal, with Georges Bettembourg, Brian Hall and Alan Rouse
1981: Shivling, India, with Bettembourg, Greg Child and Rick White
1982: Shishapangma, Tibet, south face, with Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones
1983: Lobsang Spire, Karakoram, with Child and Peter Thexton
1984: Chamlang, East ridge, Nepal, with Michael Scott, Jean Afanassieff and Ang Phurba
1988: Jitchu Drake, Bhutan, with Sharavati Prabhu and Victor Saunders
1992: Nanga Parbat, Central Mazeno Peaks, with Sergey Efimov, Alan Hinkes, Ang Phurba and Nga Temba.
1998: Drohmo, South pillar, Nepal, with Roger Mear"
2000: Targo Ri, Central Tibet, with Julian Freeman-Attwood and Richard Cowper
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Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:30 am
Leslie Phillips is still alive and kicking!
Ding dong!
I’m not sure he was one of the proper regulars though. Not in the films that immediately spring to mind anyway.
Leslie Phillips (b.1924) appeared in three early films – Nurse, Teacher and Constable – after which he left the series only to return 32 years later for Columbus as the King of Spain.
