# 2022 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443 "2021-12-03T13:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1143 "2022-10-12T18:36:34Z")
I had Faux News and OAN personnel on mine, hoping for a plane crash to or from CPAC but it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1144 "2022-10-12T19:54:13Z")
> **[Willie Spence, 'American Idol' Season 19 runner-up, dead at 23 | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/entertainment/willie-spence-dead/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2022-10-12T19%3A51%3A30)** > > Willie Spence, a singer who as a teen went viral with his rendition of Rihanna's hit "Diamonds" and was the runner up on Season 19 on "American Idol, has died the show confirmed in a social media posting on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1145 "2022-10-14T17:14:12Z")
Posted without snarky comment ☹ > **[Robbie Coltrane, Comic Performer Who Played Hagrid in ‘Harry Potter’ Movies,...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robbie-coltrane-dead-hagrid-harry-potter-movie-cracker-actor-1235241552/amp/)** > > The eccentric actor appeared in the movie franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s novels and also starred in the British crime drama 'Cracker.' ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1146 "2022-10-14T17:15:18Z")
Damn. I really _liked_ him, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1147 "2022-10-14T17:24:28Z")
From the beginning of January: > [@Gyrate](#): > > While we’re waiting for the macabre march to move on, I’ll just say I kind of wished I’d picked Robbie Coltrane for my list because I watched the Harry Potter reunion thing last night and Our Robbie is looking very, very unwell indeed. > > Although, actually, I’d rather he just got better. Because he’s lovely. Goddamn it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1148 "2022-10-14T17:29:44Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Damn. I really _liked_ him, too. Yep. In _everything._ ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1149 "2022-10-14T17:33:00Z")
Bruce Sutter, one of baseball’s premier relief pitchers, dies at 69. According to the article, he was the first pitcher to enter the HOF without starting a game. > **[Hall of Fame closer, Cy Young winner Sutter dies](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34795140/hall-fame-reliever-cy-young-winner-bruce-sutter-dies)** > > Bruce Sutter, who entered the Baseball Hall of Fame after 300 saves with the Cubs, Cardinals and Braves, has died at 69. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1150 "2022-10-14T17:40:24Z")
He played such a convincing image of poor health behaviors as Gustave LaRoche in _Chef!_ that I almost find it hard to accept he made it this far. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1151 "2022-10-14T23:18:20Z")
In Kenneth Branagh’s _Henry V_ he played Falstaff in a flashback. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1152 "2022-10-15T01:15:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > He played such a convincing image of poor health behaviors as Gustave LaRoche in _Chef!_ that I almost find it hard to accept he made it this far. I was mistaken, it was not Robbie Coltrane, it was some Englishman with a Hogarth nose. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1153 "2022-10-15T01:40:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > He played such a convincing image of poor health behaviors as Gustave LaRoche in _Chef!_ that I almost find it hard to accept he made it this far. > > I was mistaken, it was not Robbie Coltrane, it was some Englishman with a Hogarth nose You weren’t wrong in your impression though. Jeff Nuttall, who played Gustave LaRoche in 1996, was apparently in poor health and died in 2004 at the age of 70. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1154 "2022-10-15T02:00:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You weren’t wrong in your impression though. Jeff Nuttall, who played Gustave LaRoche in 1996, was apparently in poor health and died in 2004 at the age of 70. Man, that is insane. Not sure I saw much of the third season, but the Gustave LaRoche I am familiar with is a completely different person, who was born 7 months _after_ Robbie Coltrane, rather than 19 years earlier, and is still around. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1155 "2022-10-15T03:22:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Man, that is insane. Not sure I saw much of the third season, but the Gustave LaRoche I am familiar with is a completely different person, who was born 7 months _after_ Robbie Coltrane, rather than 19 years earlier, and is still around. Yes, there were two different actors who played the character. Nuttall played him for six episodes in 1996. Ian McNeice, who is still alive at 72 (his birthday was two weeks ago), played the character for three episodes in 1994. This means McNeice was 44 and Nuttall was 63 when they appeared on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1156 "2022-10-16T23:43:57Z")
> **[Robert Toll, Who Mass-Produced ‘McMansions,’ Is Dead at 81](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/realestate/robert-toll-dead.html)** > > He and his brother, Bruce, founded a home-building company that found suburbia fertile ground to make hundreds of millions of dollars with roomy dwellings. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1157 "2022-10-17T00:04:02Z")
Probably doesn’t mean anything, but Ringo just had COVID last week. Yeah, it probably doesn’t mean anything. > **[Ringo Starr cancels North America tour with Covid](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63251925?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost%2Btype%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom4=9AC88148-4B52-11ED-B6B4-24F44744363C&at_custom3=%40BBCNews)** > > The Beatle had previously cancelled dates after catching the virus, before returning to the road. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1158 "2022-10-17T01:25:33Z")
Canceling is a good idea. He shouldn’t have to shout or leap about. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1159 "2022-10-17T02:36:53Z")
According to the not-always reliable Showbiz News, actor Ted White, who played Jason in _Friday the Thirteenth: The Final Chapter_, dies peacefully at 96. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp26RvlCS9o) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1160 "2022-10-17T03:06:09Z")
Maybe Ringo just has blisters on his fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1161 "2022-10-18T15:20:27Z")
Former NFL player [Antonio Dennard](https://people.com/sports/ex-nfl-player-antonio-dennard-shot-killed-outside-bar/) was shot and killed outside of a bar in Pennsylvania. He was 32. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1162 "2022-10-18T21:24:44Z")
Gemini and Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt leaves seven points in orbit. > **[Astronaut James McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, has died at 93...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/us/apollo-astronaut-james-mcdivitt-obit/index.html)** > > James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=59)