Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)

[jjpor]

Funny thing, really, but I don't normally get sentimental about the passing away of people I only know through the medium of television, yet I'm feeling kind of wistful as I type this, with a manly something in my manly eye, or something.

Certainly, Nicholas Courtney had a longer, fuller life than a lot of people ever have, but I can't help feeling that, you know, with all due respect to Sarah Jane Adventures, the world would somehow be a better, finer place had the Brig ever got the chance to cross paths with one of the new series Doctors.

This is a nice obituary that provides a reminder that there was much more to Nicholas Courtney than the Brigadier:

www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/23/nicholas-courtney-obituary

And this is a fine tribute in pictures from calapine:

calapine.livejournal.com/652117.html

Comments

[clocketpatch]

Thanks for linking that picspam from Calapine. It made me smile and then giggle and then laugh, which I didn't think I would. But that's the Brig. I don't think I've ever cried over an actor death before, but there was something special about that man. A true legend.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It's an excellent picspam, and so true too. :) I know what you mean - it's like the end of an era, like one of the Doctors passing on or equivalent, I think. And from all the reactions I've seen online, the feeling is widespread. Helps a great deal, of course, that he seems to have been such a friendly, courteous man in real life.