"The first two chapters of the LFO story lost a main character yesterday," Brad wrote, in part, in a lengthy message on Instagram. Brad is now the only surviving member of the group that came to fame with the hit 1999 song "Summer Girls." LFO singer Rich Cronin died in 2010 at 36 following a leukemia battle and singer Devin Lima, who replaced Brian in the late '90s, died in 2018 at 41 from adrenal cancer. Variety confirmed that Brian passed away on March 29 a cause of death was not publicly shared. He will be deeply missed and never forgotten."īrian "Brizz" Gillis - a co-founder and one of the original members of the '90s boy band LFO - is dead at 47, bandmate Brad Fischetti announced on Instagram on March 30. "We mourn his tragic and premature death and remember the kind words, the sense of humor, the smiling face, the musical brilliance of the man who played such an integral role in the ABBA story. The importance of his creative input in the recording studio as well as his rock solid guitar work on stage was immense," the band's members said. A hub in our lives, and it's unbelievable that we now have to live on without you."ĪBBA also shared a statement mourning Lasse - who started playing with them in the '70s - writing, "Lasse was a dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist. Kind, safe, caring and loving … and so much more, that cannot be described in words. "You were an amazing musician and humble as few, but above all you were a wonderful husband, father, brother, uncle and grandfather. Lasse recently fell ill in what turned out to be spread cancer and early on Good Friday he passed away, surrounded by his loved ones," a statement posted on the guitarist's Facebook page in Swedish two days later read. "It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our beloved Lasse has fallen asleep. He called the statuette “frightfully heavy.Musician Lasse Wellander - the longtime guitarist for Swedish music stars ABBA - died on April 7 after a short battle with cancer. And it works!”įor his work in children’s media, he received a BAFTA Special Award in 2009. He also appeared in the film “The Railway Children,” a film voted one of the 100 best in British film history, per the BBC, and the “Jackanory” series, in which he read books to young viewers.Īll you have to do … is look down the lens, find one child and just talk to that child,” he said in 2009 of his “Jackanory” job. “It’s extremely gratifying – if you can shut them all up.” “Children are a very good and very perceptive audience,” he told the British tabloid Daily Mirror in 2018. He told fans his favorite Womble is Orinoco, the lead singer of the Wombles’ music group. Though he made memorable appearances in adult works, such as a John Cleese sitcom and Alfred Hitchcock’s second-to-last film, he more often lent his expressive voice to media for children, notably the 1970s series “The Wombles,” for which he served as narrator of the lighthearted adventures of the doglike puppet Wombles. His role as Wilfred, which he played between 20, marked the second he’d appeared in a “Doctor Who” project: In 1966, he appeared as a companion to the Doctor, then played by Peter Cushing, in a film adaptation.Įarlier in the 1960s, he made his mark in music, recording novelty songs like the comedic “Hole in the Ground” (sung partly in a Cockney accent) and “Right Said Fred.” “That’s Russell putting his finger on things.”Ĭribbins (right) appeared alongside David Tennant on "Doctor Who," his second appearance in the "Doctor Who" franchise. “It was almost verbatim of what I’d said, two or three months before,” Cribbins told Den of Geek in 2013. He was touched to find that Davies later incorporated Cribbins’ memory into a scene in “Doctor Who.” In 1947, still a teenager, he spent time in Palestine, where he recalled seeing gunfire and fireworks. A legend has left the world,” Davies wrote.īefore he was an actor, Cribbins was a Private in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. Davies paid tribute to Cribbins in a post on Instagram Thursday. His role as Wilfred Mott on the long-running British series “Doctor Who,” as an ally to David Tennant’s time-traveling Doctor, reintroduced him to viewers who grew up with him. “He was unique, typifying the best of his generation, and will be greatly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing and working with him.”Ĭribbins’ acting career spanned six decades, much of it spent in children’s entertainment in the 1960s and ’70s. “Bernard’s contribution to British entertainment is without question,” his agency said in a statement to CNN. Bernard Cribbins, a stage and screen actor who appeared on “Doctor Who” and narrated the British children’s series “The Wombles,” has died, his talent agency confirmed.
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