Michael Caine’s soon to be dead friend

Bill Clinton?

I was thinking perhaps Jack Nicholson. No idea if they’re close friends but they worked together.

Morgan Freeman

Dame Edna

I've had a hunch Jack Nicholson will be the "big" death of 2021 for a couple of months. He hasn't been seen in years.

Ward Bond.

My first thought was Nicholson.

Damn if it’s Nicholson. It just feels weird when iconic, larger than life actors on that level dies.

Caine is getting up there at 88. I know it’s apart of life but damn.

Nah, it's going to be a Brit.

What old Brit actors are there still alive that he didn't mention in the article? Not Hopkins because he's signed onto some new projects.

I thought it might be Terence Stamp (they were roommates in the 60s), but Stamp says they haven't talked in 40 years.

Didn’t he work together with Anthony Hopkins?

Any actor from a Bridge Too Far.

R13 I thought Hopkins too but he's filming a movie with Anne Hathaway right now so not him.

Sad last days !

Possibly Johnny Gold. He died on October 7. Perhaps Sir Michael was interviewed for the article earlier in the month.

Actors too ill to work:

Sorry I posted that ridiculous list. It's old.

Ignore R17. He obviously can't read.

At least he got to sample kissing Christopher Reeve.

Nicholson has been been rumored to be suffering from increasingly bad dementia for a number of years now.

I thought maybe Jessica Simpson at first, but now i'm thinking Jewel.

^ Sorry, that was meant for the Masked Singer thread.

He has been cryogenically frozen til they find a cure for dementia. He sends his love.

[quote]Damn if it’s Nicholson. It just feels weird when iconic, larger than life actors on that level dies.

I'm always curious by that reaction. I could barely offer up a "Huh, you don't say" over dead celebrities, and the greater their fame the less the reaction. Someone like Linda Manz who portrayed the young girl with the odd voice in "Days of Heaven" in 1978 made more of an impression for me more because I thought of how she was such an important aspect of how people recall that film, and that that was her one great role. Jack Nicholson, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger..."Huh, you don't say."

Yeah, I’d say Jack too. It’s about time for the Dementia to run its course.

I don’t think it’s Nicholson. He was out golfing in March 2020 with a bunch of other celebs.

Huh. He voted for BREXIT.

Sir Antony Sher is terminally ill.

He’s probably not the person Caine refers to, but how is Jeff Bridges doing?

I'm pretty sure person in question is British. And not necessarily an actor? Could be someone whose death may make the British papers but not big news in the US.

[Quote]Sir Antony Sher is terminally ill.

For the win

R32 is right, I can't believe it took 32 comments for someone to say it. Here is the full quote:

[quote]What he misses, if anything, are the people, not the films. The films are there on his iPad any time he wants to watch them. But his mates have absconded; they’ve made their getaways, too. “My generation is going. All my friends are dying off. Because we all got so old. Roger Moore, Sean Connery – those are two of my closest friends who went. Then a couple of days ago, Johnny Gold, who owned Tramp, the discotheque in London. And I have another very close friend who is very, very ill. If he survives until next weekend I’ll be surprised. And I won’t mention his name, but you’ll read about him in the papers.”

I thought Caine had died

My Cocaine

[quote]Sir Antony Sher is terminally ill.

[quote]For the win

I thought he was dead.

In the event that he isn't talking about Antony Sher, is he friends with John Cleese? He's still in good health, isn't he?

Obviously Patricia Quinn.

John Cleese is fine, as far as I know, R39. Billy Connolly's on his last legs but I don't know if he's a particular friend of Caine's.

It must have been Leslie Bricusse but I guess there's no prize now.

Wow, R42. I just found this quote in a 2010 Telegraph interview:

[quote]When I ask if he finds it hard to forge friendships with what Liz Hurley calls ‘civilians’, there is a pause before he answers. ‘My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and [bold]Leslie Bricusse[/bold], who is a composer. Come to think of it, I don’t meet other people often enough to become friends with them. I don’t meet stockbrokers, or carpenters, or coal miners, I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.’

How sad, they're all gone.

Chaka Khan?

Madeline Ashton.

Ian McKellen

Jack will bury us all. He even outlived Evans.

R48 yeah he was at a Bernie rally last year - he looked fine to me.

Tori Spelling? She’s looking a bi5 Peking these days.

R53. That's excellent research.

Is he friends with Sidney Poitier?

Getting up there, r9? He’s all the way the fuck up there.

I recently saw him in a movie, can't remember the name but it was about a author who has to go on a book tour. I enjoyed it.

The Queen.

[quote] Billy Connolly's on his last legs

Really? That sucks.

Met him at a party once. Was one of the nicest guys in the room, and funny as hell.

[quote]The Queen.

Ian McKellen?

It's Queen Elizabeth. They are friends.

She WILL NOT make it to see another Halloween. The spell has been cast. I'm not kidding. I"m an insider. She misses PeePaw so much, her health has been declining the past 2 months. Poor ol' broad hasn't dumped a solid since 1999.

[quote]How sad, they're all gone.

Tina Louise is sending a telegram with tips on how to heal.

It’s Bill Clinton

Joan Collins!

What's it all about, Alfie?

Michael Caine is the Typhoid Mary of octogenarians!

it's not Jack..............

Jack Nicholson sits courtside at Lakers game for first time in over a year

R25 lmao! I needed that. Thank you 😊

R64 Thanks. This thread had me convinced Jack was gonna die tomorrow lol.

Brian Laundrie for the win

You've got to kill the cameras and be sure you hammer what's left of the bones into powder.

Sorry. Responding to another thread by mistake.

It's Roger Moore.

Caine forgot he died four years ago.

Again.

In the past he has listed his his four best friends as Roger Moore, dead in 2017, actor Terry O'Neill, who died November 2019; Connery, who died Halloween, 2020; Johnny Gold (owned the club Tramp,) who died 10/8/21; and Leslie Bricusse, who died yesterday at 90, 10/19/21.

He was talking about Bricusse, while still smarting about Gold.

Caine's close friend was the photographer (and much-loathed ex-husband of Miss Dunaway) Terry O'Neill, not the actor of the same name.

I imagine it must be tough to be the last man standing.

Caine is a murderess hiding in plain site!

All of those who suggested females, in the article he clearly specified a man. It was Leslie bricusse, pretty sure of that now. Thanks dl sleuths!

He's friends with Murdoch. He and Shakira "double-date" out to dinner in London with Rupert and Jerry.

Poor Jack Nicholson. Yes, I've heard that he hasn't been seen publicly in months.

R77, he was just seen at a lakers game. fat as fuck but still alive

Does any one know how Jack Nicholson is ? I have heard he's not seen for over a year now.

R79, he's fine.

Nicholson and Caine were spotted shooting hoops together yesterday. All good.

QE II?

I’m confused, how does Michael Caine know Brian Laundrie?

i would love to hang out with him, I bet he has millions of interesting stories

R79/r80 etc and in case anyone was wondering how this guy was doing , Dustin Hoffman was spotted at the opening season Knicks game tonight (amazingly they won). Same age as Nicholson - doesn’t even look close to that age (he looks great).

Hoffman’s age is always an anomaly since he was 29 when he filmed The Graduate.

So many icons are getting up there and roughly the same age, Hoffman, Nicholson, Redford, Delon. Beatty, de Niro, Pacino.

I second Sir Ian. Banning that, Sir Derek

[quote] QE II?

The boat?

He socialized with the Gstaad set: Audrey Hepburn (dead). David Niven (dead). Roger Moore (dead) Capucine (dead) Blake Edwards (dead) and many more Has to be depressing

Angela Lansbury

Peter Scolari

R90 god, can’t think of anything worse than a group of friends made up exclusively of actors and a director. Unless they were egoless, what a potential nightmare those meet ups would have been.

Jessica Simpson and Jewel are still the best guesses in this thread.

R93. They drank a lot and had fun. They were friends and most had homes in and near Gstaad.

R93 yeah but they’re Brits so they just like to drink and have fun - it’s a little different.

I doubt Audrey Hepburn liked to drink and was all that much fun. Don’t know much about the others. Capucine jumped out of her window backwards in her 60s I imagine she was not a barrel of laughs to be around either.

Audrey seems sweet, if boring. Probably fun to go on walks with.

r97 I wish we knew more about exactly HOW famous persons jumped out of windows (frontwards or backwards, for example)

If I were going to be hauled up in a chalet in Gstaad in Winter with a bunch of actors of that era I’d choose Peter o’toole, Omar sharif, Roger Moore, Michael Caine, Ursula Andress (she looks like fun) and give me some glamorous European couples like Alain delon and romy schneider and throw in liz and Richard burton and someone crazy like Helmut Berger for good measure. They seem like they would have partied at least. The idea of Audrey Hepburn and or Deborah Kerr, Blake edwards and Julie Andrews… doesn’t sound particularly exciting

Thank you, R72. Duh.

^^ many if those were part of the group. Delon was living in Geneva so he went up frequently. Valentino and his lot were regulars. Lots of fun in the Gstaad Palace Hotel bar. And yes, Capucine was great fun

Brendad Dickson?

And Audrey drank Bourbon with the gang. Loved to dance

I think he's talking about Angie Dickinson, who he starred with in Murder to Kill.

[quote] I think he's talking about Angie Dickinson, who he starred with in Murder to Kill.

Oh fucking DEAR