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Dateline: 16th January, 2011
Susannah York (1939 - 2011) Actress Susannah York has died of cancer at the age of 72. She began her career in the sixties in a series of well-received films. She made her first appearance in Tunes of Glory (1960) with Alec Guinness and John Mills and a year later played the lead in The Greengage Summer. Her first big hit was playing Sophie Western in Tom Jones with Albert Finney (1963) which won the Oscar for Best Film. She went on to appear in A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Battle of Britain (1969). She was nominated for the Oscar Best Supporting Actress award and won a Bafta for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Other film appearances included Sands of the Kalahari, Kaleidoscope, Oh! What a Lovely War, three of the Superman films (as Superman's mother) and Images (1972) for which she won Best Actress at Cannes. On TV she played the title role in Jane Eyre (1970) alongside George C. Scott (as Edward Rochester), Ian Bannen (St. John Rivers), Rachel Kempson (Mrs. Fairfax) and Jack Hawkins (Henry Brocklehurst). In 2003 she had a recurring role as Helen Grant in Holby City, reprising the part a year later in two episodes of Casualty. On stage she toured her one-woman show The Loves of Shakespeare's Women for many years, including a run at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe (for which the BTG gave five stars). Other stage apearances included The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (New End: 1978), The Wings of the Dove (UK tour: 2007), Wuthering Heights (adapted by April De Angelis: 2008) and a Tennessee Williams Triple Bill (New End: 2009). She was left wing politcally, a supporet of CND and Mordechai Vanunu, the technician imprisoned for 18 years for revealing Israel's secret nuclear programme.
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