# 2026 Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318 "2025-12-02T04:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/622 "2026-02-11T20:29:13Z")
Exactly what I was going to say. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/623 "2026-02-11T20:30:31Z")
> **[Bud Cort, best known for role in 'Harold and Maude,' dies at 77](https://abc7.com/amp/post/bud-cort-best-known-role-1971-film-harold-maude-dies-77/18586753/)** > > Actor Bud Cort, best known for his role in the 1971 film "Harold and Maude," has died. He was 77. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/624 "2026-02-11T20:46:14Z")
Oh, dear, that was a nice movie. Is it really that long ago? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/625 "2026-02-11T21:01:22Z")
Holy crap, god is dead? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/626 "2026-02-11T21:41:48Z")
Nah. He’s just playing skeeball. He does this once a month. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/627 "2026-02-11T21:48:23Z")
That’s what I had read in the New York Times ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/628 "2026-02-11T21:57:09Z")
Has anyone seen @Baker? Been a while since she’s posted here/updated the standings. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/629 "2026-02-11T22:05:09Z")
> **[Philippe Gaulier had a huge impact on theatre – but his ‘embrace the...](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/10/philippe-gaulier-clown-embrace-ridiculousness-lesson-for-us-all)** > > The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment – and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/630 "2026-02-12T01:06:15Z")
I’ve wondered that myself. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/631 "2026-02-12T07:04:14Z")
Checking her profile, her last post was Jan 28. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/632 "2026-02-12T14:13:49Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Oh, dear, that was a nice movie. Is it really that long ago? Yeppers. I remember the gone-but-missed Circle Theater in DC used to periodically show Harold and Maude on a twin bill with King of Hearts back when I was living in the area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/633 "2026-02-12T16:26:55Z")
Burt was briefly in MASH (1970). He’s the kid who isn’t quick enough and Burns says, “Never mind…you killed him.” Burns was much more evil in the film version. I’ll never forget the look on Burt’s face. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001069/mediaviewer/rm360361217/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001069/mediaviewer/rm360361217/) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/634 "2026-02-12T17:22:54Z")
RIP Bud Cort. He’s in this 45 minute film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”, available free here: (warning, it’s silent for 16 seconds, and then the sound comes on loudly) [https://tubitv.com/movies/724373/bernice-bobs-her-hair?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm\_source=google-feed](https://tubitv.com/movies/724373/bernice-bobs-her-hair?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed) Shelley Duvall stars, and Dennis Christopher is featured. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/635 "2026-02-12T19:30:43Z")
Some (a lot of background on the Jag-Hearse) in Harold & Maude. More info on other movies he was in. A meeting with Boy George who wanted to meet him! Many more stories in the comments. > **[RIP Bud Cort So Let's Talk About The Jaguar E-Type Hearse He Made Famous -...](https://www.theautopian.com/rip-bud-court-so-lets-talk-about-the-jaguar-e-type-hearse-he-made-famous/)** > > Sometimes actors do something so memorable at the beginning of their careers that is tends to define them for the rest of their lives; actor Bud Cort was one such actor. Fortunately for him, that work that he would come to be associated with for the... ---
**Author:** ![MarkF2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@MarkF2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkF2004)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/636 "2026-02-13T18:16:43Z")
Crumbs… ---
**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:** [February 13, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/637 "2026-02-13T23:18:19Z")
[Elroy (Roy) Face](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/elroy-face-dies-at-97-pirates-obituary/), pitcher for the 1960 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates died just eight days before his 98th birthday. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/638 "2026-02-14T09:51:58Z")
Starting to get a little worried about @Baker She hasn’t posted since January 28 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2026, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/639 "2026-02-14T10:03:01Z")
Hoping someone has contact with her outside the boards. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/640 "2026-02-14T15:27:57Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > She hasn’t posted since January 28 Hmmm. That is kind of long. Could be nothing, though. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/641 "2026-02-14T16:20:53Z")
What is she at, 25pts? 24? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=33)