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Dateline: 19th October, 2010 Simon MacCorkindale (1952 - 2010)
Actor Simon MacCorkindale has died of cancer at the age of 58. Although he is best known for his film and TV work, he began and ended his career on stage. His first production was A Bequest to the Nation at the Belgrade, Coventry, and he made his West End debut playing alongside Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg in Pygmalion. After small parts in a number of TV productions (I, Claudius and Paris in Romeo and Juliet in 1976, and Jesus of Nazareth in 1977), he starred with Peter Ustinov in the film Death on the Nile in 1978, followed by co-starring with Michael York and Jenny Agutter in Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands the following year. Although he made regular TV appearances in the intervening years, his major break-through came in 1984–86 when he appeared in 59 episodes of the US TV soap Falcon Crest. He was a regular as Dr. Harry Harper in Casualty from 2002-2008 and his final TV appearance was this year in New Tricks in the episode Good Morning Lemmings. In 2006, the year he was diagnosed with bowel cancer, he returned to the stage, after a twenty year absence, in the Agatha Christie Theatre Company touring production of Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest. His final stage appearance was as Captain von Trapp in the West End Sound of Music in 2008. In 2007 he was told that the cancer had spread to his lungs and that he had five years to live. He died on Thursday 14th October.
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