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

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I have been upset over the death of other actors (or authors), but his has been the most upsetting. The Brig should've been immortal (and Nick with him!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Aye, in a perfect world... :( But yes, for some reason this seems to have hit a lot of people very hard. As other people have already observed, in a fandom containing so many different points of view, dare I say factions, one thing everybody seems able to agree on is that the Brigadier and Nicholas Courtney were legends, deserving of love and respect.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes - and that is quite an amazing achievement in a fandom as divided as Who!

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

*nods*