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RIP Doug Lennox

Canadian radio, television and film actor Doug Lennox died Nov. 28 (we don’t have details yet). He was 76. MSTies might remember he played The Captain in the movie in episode K20- THE LAST CHASE.

Lennox began his career in radio in 1965. He spent the ’70s at CBC Radio & Television. […]

RIP Rex Reason

Walnut, Calif.–Handsome leading man Rex Reason died at his home here Nov. 19 of bladder cancer. He was 86.

Of course, he played Cal Meecham in the movie “This Island Earth,” riffed in MST3K: THE MOVIE.

And, in 1996, at MST3K’s CONVENTIOCON EXPOFEST-A-RAMA 2: ELECTRIC BUGALOO in Minneapolis, he took […]

RIP Warren Mitchell

Hampstead, England–British character actor Warren Mitchell, perhaps best remembered as the cantankerous Alf Garnett in the British TV series “Till Death Do Us Part,” which was brought across the pond and became the hit series “All in the Family,” died here Saturday, Nov. 14. He was 89. MSTies will remember him as […]

RIP Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor of Motörhead

Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, who played drums in the heavy metal band Motörhead from 1975 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1992, alongside guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke and frontman Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, died Nov. 11. He was 61. He had been ill for some time and his death had been reported so […]

George Barris, RIP

LOS ANGELES–George Barris, the car designer who created the iconic 1966 Batmobile for the Batman television series, died here Nov. 5. He was 89. His company Kustom City designed and built the jalopies that were featured in episode 523- VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS. The Hollywood Reporter has an obit.

Thanks to Scott […]