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‘Bride of Chucky’ and ‘Scanners’ Actor Lawrence Dane Has Passed Away
Some more sad news this week, as we’ve learned from Child’s Play creator Don Mancini that Bride of Chucky actor Lawrence Dane has passed away. Dane was 84 years old.
“Dane passed away March 21 at his home in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, with his wife, Laurel, and family members at his side after a long battle with pancreatic cancer,” THR reports.
Lawrence Dane played Lt. Preston in the Ronny Yu-directed Child’s Play sequel from 1998, a private investigator in Lakeport who may or may not be killed off by the evil dolls.
Don Mancini tweets, “RIP Lawrence Dane, Canadian legend. He was one of the first actors I ever worked with as a director, and he was incredibly nice to me.”
Bride of Chucky isn’t the only notable horror film on Lawrence Dane’s lengthy resume, as he also played Braedon Keller in David Cronenberg’s Scanners, released in 1981.
The previous decade, Lawrence Dane appeared in 1976’s The Clown Murders and 1977’s Rituals, the latter a Deliverance-esque horror movie starring the late Hal Holbrook.
Lawrence Dane was later seen in the 1981 slasher Happy Birthday to Me, as well as 1983’s Of Unknown Origin, 1989’s Millennium, and 1995’s Darkman II: The Return of Durant.
He also appeared in various TV shows throughout the decades, including “The Hitchhiker,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Poltergeist: The Legacy,” and “Tales from the Cryptkeeper.”
All of us here at BD send our deepest condolences to Dane’s family and friends.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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