Joss Ackland is DEAD TO ME

Peron! Peron! Peron!

Diplomatic Immunity!

[italic]”Ackland and his wife Rosemary were married for 51 years. They had seven children, thirty-two grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.”[/italic]

Well they certainly did their part to fuck up the planet, didn’t they??

[quote] Best known as the old man in the back of the car in the Pet Shop Boys video for Always On My Mind.

The most DL line ever.

Who names their kid Joss?

This is crazy defeatist talk!

Stupid Brits, that’s who.

& Rosalyn & who will be their 3rd

r8 Show some respect and spell her name correctly.

He is the Farrah Fawcett to Roslyn’s Michael Jackson.

He was in DL fave White Mischief.

R7, he was South African.

[quote]He is the Farrah Fawcett to Roslyn’s Michael Jackson.

Or Federico Fellini to River Phoenix.

Both died on Halloween 1993, but the latter received *way* more news coverage at the time.

I suppose because River was only 23 and it was all so sudden and shocking, whereas Fellini was already in his seventies and had already suffered two strokes earlier that year.

[quote]Who names their kid Joss?

Fuck you!!!

Yeah, fuck you!

I’m Josh, nor Jish, FML! Serves me right for my creepy, rapey behavior.

He was good on Supernatural.

Dataloungers never let you down. I knew you bitches would remember him as the original Juan Perón in Evita.

I was the original Perón.

^^ Only on DL do we have this conversation.

He was also deliciously nasty as a Soviet bureaucrat in the amazing HBO miniseries Citizen X.

Patti commented yet?

I was Patti's Perón. on Broadway.

r23

one of my absolute favorite videos on YT... I love the moment at 4:40 she Patti missed his arm and how Joss just flicks the ashes on the ground... is that something people used to do?

Jerry Westerby in the miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Such a shame we never got the Honourable Schoolboy miniseries.

[quote]R12 he was South African.

Born in London.

Seth Efrica.

He did play a South African villain.

Jish jizzed.

Before Evita, he also played Fredrik in the original London production of A Little Night Music, opposite Jean Simmons.

A 95 year old Brit born in 1928. Talk about a front seat to history.

He appeared in drag in [italic]White Mischief[/italic]. Not a good look.

A couple of his other roles:

1) He played a nasty man in "Midsomer Murders" who unexpectedly dies. The episode also stars DL fave Sian Phillips.

2) He plays the owner of a diamonds company in the 2008 film "Flawless" with Michael Caine & Demi Moore.

[quote] Jerry Westerby in the miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Such a shame we never got the Honourable Schoolboy miniseries.

He had the best guilty grin I have ever seen, r25, and was perfectly cast, as was everybody on they great series.

The silly movie with Gary Oldman didn’t compare.

Great character actor. RIP.

He was Joss Ackland!