Celebrities

the world lost a screen legend yesterday

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(Beefcake Tuesday)

Nigel “Sam” Neill (1947-2026) was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. Internationally recognized for his contribution to film and television, He is well known for his roles in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) and Jane Campion’s Award Winning film The Piano (1993).

Other film roles include The Daughter (2015), Backtrack (2015) opposite Adrien Brody, MindGamers (2015), United Passions (2014), A Long Way Down (2014), Escape Plan (2013), The Hunter (2011) with Willem Dafoe, Daybreakers (2009), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010), Little Fish (2005) opposite Cate Blanchett, Skin (2008), Dean Spanley (2008), Wimbledon (2004), Yes (2004), Perfect Strangers (2003), Dirty Deeds (2002), The Zookeeper (2001), Bicentennial Man (1999) opposite Robin Williams, The Horse Whisperer (1998) alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Sleeping Dogs (1977), and My Brilliant Career (1979).

Monetta Eloyse Darnell (1923-1965)

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Linda Darnell was born in Dallas, Texas, one of five children of a post office worker and his wife. It was evident at an early age that she would be a ravishing beauty, and her mother encouraged her to model. By age 11 she was modeling clothes for an area department store. She had appeared in a total of 46 films and often described as the “girl with the perfect face”,

Virginia “Ding Dong” Bell (1934-2010)

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born Virginia Miriam Beck, she began her career in burlesque at age 22, gaining fame for her natural 46 inch bust. By the 1950s, Bell began posing for men’s magazines, had one starring role in a feature film, Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963) and smaller roles in only a handful of movies.

poor quality picture I know, but this is the only recent one I can find.

Gaynor Sullivan AKA Bonnie Tyler

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(1951-2026) was a Welsh singer and songwriter. Known for her distinctive husky voice, Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles “Lost in France” and “More Than a Lover”. Her 1977 single “It’s a Heartache” reached number four on the UK Singles Chart and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.

In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tyler’s biggest hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide and was released as the lead single from her 1983 UK chart-topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tyler’s other major 1980s hit “Holding Out for a Hero”. Her other successful singles during this period included “Here She Comes” from the 1984 soundtrack to Metropolis and “If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)”, written by Desmond Child and produced by Steinman

Beefcake Tuesdays – Tyrone Edmund Power Jr.

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(1914/1958) Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian.

A screen test led to a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1936, and he quickly progressed to leading roles. Within a year or so, he was one of Fox’s leading stars, playing in contemporary and period pieces with ease. Most of his roles were colorful without being deep, and his swordplay was more praised than his wordplay. He served in the Marine Corps in World War II as a transport pilot, and he saw action in the Pacific Theater of operations.

Following a fine performance in Billy Wilder‘s Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Power began production on Solomon and Sheba (1959). Halfway through shooting, he suffered a heart attack during a dueling scene with George Sanders and died before reaching a hospital.

And this is Tyrone Power IV – the apple fell very close to the tree