BrunoKirby Tagged Articles at Cinematical

• Duygu Asena (1946-2006) - Turkish author and women's rights advocate whose novel Kadinin Adi Yok was adapted into a hit film (in Turkey). She died July 30th of a brain tumor, in Ankara, Turkey.
• Shiv Dayal Batish (1914-2006) - Indian musician and singer who performed music for Help! and is credited on some Indian films as a playback singer. He died July 29th, in Santa Cruz, California.
• Alan Bell (1931-2006) - Sound editor who worked on The Last Emperor, The Whales of August, Erik the Viking and Sirens, among many others. He died August 5th, in Cornwall, England.
  
• Lee Roy Davis (1955-2006) - High school football player who was on the team portrayed in Remember the Titans. He died of multiple myeloma on July 31st, in Knightdale, North Carolina.
• Mick Dillon (1926-2006) - Jockey, stunt man and actor. He stood in for Buster Keaton in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and doubled for Ringo Starr in Help!. He also did stunts for You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and appeared in How I Won the War and Champions. He died July 23rd.

We lost a great actor today, folks. At the age of 57, Bruno Kirby has passed away due to complications related to leukemia, after recently being diagnosed with the disease. Most of you probably remember Kirby as Billy Crystal's best pal in, personally, one of my favorite romantic comedies of all time, When Harry Met Sally. Or as Robin Williams' strict, yet hilarious nemesis in Good Morning, Vietnam.

Then you have one of his more classic roles as the wise-cracking New Yawker in City Slickers. As the news of his death hit me, the first image that popped into my head was that of a scene from Slickers when Kirby, Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern are out on the open range complaining about that annoying blinking VCR clock. Fed up with the conversation, Kirby goes, "Shut up! Just shut up! He doesn't get it! He'll never get it! It's been 4 hours! The cows can tape something by now! Forget about it please!"

I will never forget about that performance, and we will never forget about Bruno Kirby. Farewell my good man. Farewell.