# 2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831 "2022-12-01T04:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/801 "2023-04-05T12:32:29Z")
I don’t think this has been posted. > **[Nigel Lawson, who shook up British economy in Thatcher era, dies at 91](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/04/nigel-lawson-britain-thatcher-dies/)** > > Nigel Lawson supported Brexit and dismissed worries over climate change. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/802 "2023-04-05T13:44:31Z")
[Judy Farrell](https://parade.com/news/judy-farrell-mash-actress-dead?mibextid=Zxz2cZ), who played Nurse Able on _MASH_,has died at 84. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/803 "2023-04-05T15:51:19Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [Judy Farrell](https://parade.com/news/judy-farrell-mash-actress-dead?mibextid=Zxz2cZ), who played Nurse Able on _MASH_,has died at 84. My themed list is surviving MASH cast members, but she was only in it so briefly, I did not include her. Mike Farrell’s first wife. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/804 "2023-04-05T16:03:12Z")
I never liked _MASH_, so I had no perspective as to how much she appeared in the show. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/805 "2023-04-05T16:11:02Z")
8 episodes, and rarely more than a line or two in each. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/806 "2023-04-05T19:44:48Z")
Tech bigwig Bob Lee, 43, is [stabbed to death in San Francisco](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/bob-lee-creator-of-cash-app-and-former-cto-of-square-stabbed-to-death/). ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/807 "2023-04-05T21:23:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I never liked _MASH_, so I had no perspective as to how much she appeared in the show. Basically a background character like most of the nurses. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/808 "2023-04-05T22:05:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Basically a background character like most of the nurses. Yeah, only Nurse Kelly ever rose to any real prominence in the show and she did so simply by being on the show for almost its entire run. I mean, they eventually gave her lines since she had a name and personality that gradually had come out. Nurse Able was, if I remember, just kind of hot and one of the generic nurses. She had a name, but no more or a role. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/809 "2023-04-05T22:19:12Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Nurse Able was, if I remember, just kind of hot and one of the generic nurses. She had a name, but no more or a role. If IMDB is correct, there were actually four different actors who played Nurse Able (and three who played Nurse Baker) If there’s anything worse than being remembered for a bit part, it’s the possibility of being confused with other actors who played the same bit part. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/810 "2023-04-05T23:36:23Z")
> **[Bill Lynch, former "CBS World News Roundup" anchor, dies at age 77](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-lynch-dies-age-77-former-cbs-world-news-roundup-anchor/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=208633971)** > > Bill Lynch was an award-winning journalist who anchored CBS News Radio's "World News Roundup​" for nearly 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/811 "2023-04-06T00:33:09Z")
> **[Craig Breedlove, Land Speed Racing Legend, Is Dead At 86 - Jalopnik](https://www.jalopnik.com/craig-breedlove-dead-86-spirit-of-america-land-speed-1850304864/)** > > Craig Breedlove, legendary land-speed racer and the first person to break the 600-mile-per-hour mark in a car, has died at the age of 86, according to the Southern California Timing Association. ## The Southern California Timing Association announced the death of the man who broke the 600-mph barrier in the jet-powered ‘Spirit of America Sonic 1’ in 1965. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/812 "2023-04-06T00:44:04Z")
He was famous for the incident where he lost his chutes and crashed in spectacular fashion, climbing out of the wreckage to declare, “For my next act, I will set myself on fire.” ---
**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:** [April 6, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/813 "2023-04-06T00:44:48Z")
One of a very few who could tell someone to hold his beer, and then be alive to ask for it back afterwards. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/814 "2023-04-06T03:16:50Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > Nurse Able was, if I remember, just kind of hot and one of the generic nurses. She had a name, but no more or a role. > > If IMDB is correct, there were actually four different actors who played Nurse Able (and three who played Nurse Baker) If there’s anything worse than being remembered for a bit part, it’s the possibility of being confused with other actors who played the same bit part. And your bit part is named after a military phonetic alphabet at the time (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.) Anyway… > **[Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou: the Ethiopian nun who was one of history’s most...](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/28/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-the-ethiopian-nun-who-was-one-of-historys-most-distinctive-pianists)** > > Emahoy, who has died aged 99, was a classically trained musician and society girl who turned towards faith – and cultivated a style of playing like no other ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/815 "2023-04-06T05:55:23Z")
Breedlove dead at 86? What, no days, hours, minutes and seconds? Fucking sloppy, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/816 "2023-04-06T06:43:11Z")
I think he may have broken the land speed record holder longevity record. Not that land speed record attempts have anything on water speed record attempts, when it comes to longevity. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/817 "2023-04-06T21:32:56Z")
Death….why’d it have to be death? > **[Norman Reynolds, Winner of Art Direction Oscars for ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Raiders...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/norman-reynolds-dead-star-wars-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1235368654/)** > > "His contributions to the first entries of the 'Star Wars' saga and 'Indiana Jones' series helped set the standard for the look of these beloved stories that has inspired generations of film designers," said Lucasfilm president... ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/818 "2023-04-07T00:13:57Z")
Jaws cinematographer Bill Butler sinks to the murky depths for -1 points. > **[Bill Butler, Cinematographer on ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 101](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/bill-butler-dead-jaws-cuckoos-nest-1235576166/amp/)** > > Emmy-winning cinematographer Bill Butler, who was Oscar nominated for shooting “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and was also the D.P. on Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/819 "2023-04-07T00:22:26Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Jaws cinematographer Bill Butler sinks to the murky depths for -1 points. Man, I wanna be Spielberg’s camera man. Doug Slocombe lived until 103 and now Bill Butler lived to 101. Janusz Kamiński is feeling great. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/820 "2023-04-07T00:40:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Man, I wanna be Spielberg’s camera man. > > Doug Slocombe lived until 103 and now Bill Butler lived to 101. > > Janusz Kamiński is feeling great. Whereas [Tobe “may I move the camera 6 inches to the right Mr Spielberg” Hooper](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001361/) only managed 26 points, so be careful what you wish for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=42)