RIP Jake Abraham

[Rudolph]

Came across it on social media, but am very sorry to hear that Jake Abraham, the alternate Lister from The Inquisitor, has passed away aged 56 after a short battle with prostate cancer. More information can be found in the Liverpool Echo.

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[Dave]

That’s sad to hear. Somehow I never made the connection that it was the same actor in Lock Stock, he was very good in that too. 

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

Demons and Angels, as well.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Demons and Angels, as well.

Eh? Come again?

[Flap Jack]

Yeah, this was a shock to hear about. 56 is no age. I don’t know where I’d put sperm-in-law Lister in the pantheon of guest roles, but he was good, and he was better than the other Jake for sure.

… I am also curious to know what role Jake Abraham played in Demons & Angels. Maybe he was the one who really directed it after Juliet May was gone.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

I think Jake was Low Lister in D & A – according to TV Tropes he doubles as Low Lister when he and Craig are in the same scene?.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

Yeah, this was a shock to hear about. 56 is no age. I don’t know where I’d put sperm-in-law Lister in the pantheon of guest roles, but he was good, and he was better than the other Jake for sure.
… I am also curious to know what role Jake Abraham played in Demons & Angels. Maybe he was the one who really directed it after Juliet May was gone.

Cancer does not care how old you are. My mother’s daughter and my half-sister – 10 months old (brain tumor that would have started when in my mother’s womb). My maternal grandmother – dead at 50 from colon cancer.

[Warbodog]

I think Jake was Low Lister in D & A – according to TV Tropes he doubles as Low Lister when he and Craig are in the same scene?.

I don’t know for sure whether or not he’s in the episode (I never thought that was Craig who fell out of the cupboard at the end), but sites like TV Tropes and IMDb are riddled with Red Dwarf misinformation.

[Jenuall]

The two episodes were filmed one after the other so I guess it’s not totally out of the question, but it does seem a stretch that they would need him. There’s not really any point where you see both Lister’s on screen together that would warrant it I don’t think?

Cupboard at the end is a cut away shot so would have just been filmed separately and when they’re together in the drive/science room I don’t think you really see any shots that would need a “double” are there?

[Dave]

I often wonder with Demons & Angels how much of it was actually shot on the night, given the number of split screen shots and costume changes that would be involved. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just do a full Bodyswap no-audience job for that one.

[clem]

He, the smeg, was perfectly cast as an alternate Lister. RIP

It says on TUA too that he was a “Lister stand In” in D&A. 

Somehow I never made the connection that it was the same actor in Lock Stock, he was very good in that too. 

It’s a cracking film. Stephen “Bear Strangler McGee” Marcus is in it too. And Danny of course. 

[Dave]

It’s a cracking film. Stephen “Bear Strangler McGee” Marcus is in it too. And Danny of course. 

Yeah, they were more recognisable for me at the time.

It spawned a lot of inferior copycats but I remember loving the original when it first came out.

[Flap Jack]

Well huh, I guess it’s true then. Cool.

[RainbowGazelle]

That’s a shame. Seemed like a smeggin’ good Lister. Cancer sucks.

[RunawayTrain]

Oof, that’s so sad.  I know cancer in general doesn’t care about age, but 56 *is* young for prostate cancer.  My heart goes out to his family and friends.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

“Doctor Who” still holds the most tragic cast or guest actor “record” – Darren Plant, Baby Benton in “The Time Monster”, died of SIDS before his first birthday.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Poor baby Darren. That’s just so tragic. Jesus.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

As for the Twilight Zone, the “record” that no one would want to have: Judith Barsi (1978-88)

(Barsi appears on screen in an installment of a TZ incarnation. The younger Renee Chen and Myca Le who died with Vic Morrow don’t appear in the finished 1983 TZ movie)

[Warbodog]

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

The only thing i got off was the loo about 6 hours later…

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

home made or Pizza Hut, i wonder?

[Rudolph]

As for the Twilight Zone, the “record” that no one would want to have: Judith Barsi (1978-88)

Not to be too morbid, but I suppose Red Dwarf’s is Francine Walker-Lee, one of the handmaidens from Terrorform. She was killed in a car accident three years later.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

As for the Twilight Zone, the “record” that no one would want to have: Judith Barsi (1978-88)

Not to be too morbid, but I suppose Red Dwarf’s is Francine Walker-Lee, one of the handmaidens from Terrorform. She was killed in a car accident three years later.

Agreed. With Judith, you only have to hear her work in the Land Before Time or All Dogs.. to realise just how much you want to invent a time drive and sic a rogue simulant onto Jozsef Barsi. At least that “father” died the way he deserved – alone and unloved.

[Dave]

Not to be too morbid

I think that ship has sailed by this point.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

[Warbodog]

[Unrumble]

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

[Moonlight]

Robert was great in that episode of Bottom.

[Boy Was I Suckered… Into Using my Kidneys as a Full Stop]

[si]

Does no-one else think the screencaps and captions kind of alters the tone of the subject matter of this thread?

[RunawayTrain]

Does no-one else think the screencaps and captions kind of alters the tone of the subject matter of this thread?

Yyyyyup  :/

[Ian Symes]

Yes, I don’t really understand what is happening in this thread at all.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Does anyone else remember when this thread was about the passing of Jake Abraham?

[Jenuall]

But yeah, I do think there’s a time and a place for reining in the memery

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