| Robert Lang |
70 |
Bristol-born leading actor with Olivier’s NT
and at Regent’s Park |
6 Nov |
| Jerome Lawrence |
88 |
Playwright who with Robert E.Lee created Mame
(1969) |
29 Feb |
| Adèle Leigh |
75 |
English soprano in Viennese operetta, wife of an Austrian
diplomat |
22 May |
| Janet Leigh |
77 |
Lead actress in over 50 movies, star of Hitchcock’s
Psycho (1960) |
3 Oct |
| Bernard Levin CBE |
75 |
Prolific Spectator and Times journalist, Daily Mail
theatre critic |
7 Aug |
| Philip Locke |
76 |
Distinguished English stage actor with the Royal Court,
RSC and RNT |
19 Apr |
| Stephen Mallatratt |
57 |
English actor, author of the long-running hit The
Woman in Black |
22 Nov |
| Billy May |
87 |
Capitol’s MD; composer, arranger, band-leader
for Frank, Nat, et al |
22 Jan |
| Mercedes McCambridge |
87 |
Orson Welles’ radio favourite and in tough movie
roles |
2 Mar |
| Robert David MacDonald |
74 |
Translator, playwright, one of the Glasgow Citizens
triumvirate |
19 May |
| Diana Mahony |
77 |
Tall, charming actress, Sir Donald Sinden’s wife
and muse |
15 Sep |
| Irene Manning |
91 |
American screen actress and star of light opera and
musicals |
28 May |
| Dame Alicia Markova |
94 |
Ballerina who helped create the British ballet scene
|
2 Dec |
| Robert Merrill |
87 |
Operatic baritone, for thirty years mainstay of the
NY Met |
23 Oct |
| Russ Meyer |
82 |
Cult film director, creator of Faster Pussycat!,
Kill! Kill! et al |
18 Sep |
| Ann Miller |
81 |
Legendary MGM hoofer, Broadway’s Mame (1969)
and ‘Sugar Baby’ |
22 Jan |
| Helen Montagu |
75 |
Innovative West End, Royal Court and H.M.Tennent producer
|
1 Jan |
| Etta Moten (Barnett) |
102 |
Lionised African-American actress, singer and journalist
|
2 Jan |
| Norman Newell OBE |
85 |
EMI talent spotter, lyricist and producer (incl. Jake
Thackray) |
1 Dec |
| Jeff Nuttall |
70 |
Actor, writer and performance artist, founder of The
People Show |
4 Jan |
| Jerry Orbach |
69 |
Veteran screen and stage actor, stalwart of Broadway
musicals |
28 Dec |
| Helen Osborne (Dawson) |
64 |
Acerbic journalist, John Osborne’s fifth wife
and doughty defender |
12 Jan |
| Glyn Owen |
76 |
Prolific British television actor, notably as Jack
Rolfe in the long-running series Howard’s Way (BBC)
|
11 Sep |
| Michael Owen |
59 |
Leading performing arts journalist with London’s
Evening Standard |
23 Aug |
| Jack Paar |
85 |
American actor, creator of the Tonight Show
for NBC |
27 Jan |
| John Peel OBE |
65 |
Liverpudlian DJ, celebrating innovative music for
forty years |
25 Oct |
| Andy Phillips |
63 |
Respected British lighting designer and co-founder
of White Light |
18 Sep |
| Norman Platt OBE |
83 |
Operatic talent spotter, founder of Kent Opera |
4 Jan |
| Johnny Ramone |
55 |
(né John Cummings) punk rock guitarist of The
Ramones fame |
15 Sep |
| Tony Randall |
84 |
Urbane radio, stage and screen actor, one of The
Odd Couple on TV |
17 May |
| Christopher Reeve |
52 |
Superman star and paralysed hero of medical
research |
10 Oct |
| Jack Rosenthal CBE |
72 |
Mancunian master of single TV plays, Maureen Lipman’s
husband |
29 May |
| Peggy Ryan |
80 |
Comedienne, Donald O’Connor’s dance partner,
Hawaii Five-O star |
30 Oct |
| James Saunders |
79 |
Prolific London playwright for stage, screen and radio
including Bodies (1977), Next Time I’ll Sing To You
(West End 1963, NY 1963 and 1973) |
29 Jan |
| Artie Shaw |
94 |
King of swing, jazz clarinettist, bandleader and composer
|
30 Dec |
| Frank Shelley |
92 |
Old-style actor-manager at Oxford Playhouse, Chichester,
et al |
8 Nov |
| Milton Shulman |
90 |
Long-serving Evening Standard critic, Canadian controversialist
|
21 May |
| Nikolas Simmonds |
55 |
Marowitz’s Macbeth and Hamlet, head of drama
at Mountview |
14 Oct |
| Carrie Snodgress |
57 |
Slight Chicago-born screen actress, a regular in horror
movies |
1 Apr |
| Ray Stark |
88 |
Hollywood producer at Columbia, Barbra Streisand’s
star-maker |
17 Jan |
| Jan Sterling |
82 |
NY actress, Oscar nominee, Kirk Douglas co-star in
Ace in the Hole |
26 Mar |
| Ludmila Tcherina |
79 |
Glamorous Parisian ballerina, a star of stage, film
and society |
20 Mar |
| Renata Tebaldi |
82 |
Italian soprano, rival to Callas, star of the New
York Met |
19 Dec |
| Ingrid Thulin |
77 |
Enigmatic Swedish actress, star of eight Ingmar Bergman
movies |
7 Jan |
| Vilem Tausky CBE |
93 |
Czech conductor, leading light of postwar British
musical life |
16 Mar |
| Sir Peter Ustinov |
82 |
Actor, playwright, novelist, raconteur and UNICEF
ambassador |
29 Mar |
| Joe Viterelli |
66 |
Italian-American Broadway and Hollywood mafia heavy
|
29 Jan |
| Molly Weir |
94 |
Much-loved Scottish comedy actress on BBC radio and
television |
29 Nov |
| Glynne Wickham |
81 |
Britain’s first drama professor; Shakespeare's
Globe Theatre activist |
27 Jan |
| Noble Willingham |
72 |
Burly Texan actor, debuted at age 40 in The Last Picture
Show |
17 Jan |
| Ivor Wood |
72 |
BBC’s 3D animator, Magic Roundabout and
The Wombles creator |
13 Oct |
| Peter Woodthorpe |
72 |
Character actor, London’s first Estragon (1955)
and Aston (1960) |
13 Aug |
| Fay Wray |
96 |
Busy actress, famed as the star of King Kong
(1933) |
8 Aug |
