| Carl Anderson |
58 |
Black actor identified with the rôle of Judas
in Jesus Christ Superstar |
23 Feb |
| Don Ashton |
85 |
British art director and production designer |
25 Aug |
| Richard Avedon |
81 |
Society, fashion and showbiz photographer |
1 Oct |
| Peter Barnes |
73 |
Irreverent English dramatist, best known for The
Ruling Class (1968) |
1 Jul |
| John Barron |
83 |
English actor in ‘managerial’ roles (notably
CJ in Reginald Perrin) |
3 Jul |
| John Drew Barrymore |
72 |
Actor with “a name that brought me nothing but
trouble” |
29 Nov |
| Elmer Bernstein |
82 |
Leading Hollywood film composer |
18 Aug |
| Peter Blythe |
69 |
Distinguished English actor, Harriet Walter’s
partner |
27 Jun |
| Marlon Brando |
80 |
Method actor, Broadway’s Stanley Kowalski, Hollywood
star |
1 Jul |
| Lyndon Brook |
77 |
English actor, elegant scion of Clive Brook’s
theatrical dynasty |
9 Jan |
| Ronald Brydon |
76 |
Influential theatre critic for The Observer and an
RSC dramaturg |
22 Nov |
| Judy Campbell |
88 |
Enchanting light comedy actress, Noël’s
muse, Jane Birkin’s mother |
6 Jun |
| Nancy Carline |
94 |
Painter and stage designer for the Sadler’s Wells
ballet company |
18 Oct |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
95 |
French co-founder of Magnum, greatest photographer
of the 20th Century |
2 Aug |
| Ray Charles |
73 |
Blind colossus of jazz, blues and gospel |
10 Jun |
| Cy Coleman |
75 |
Broadway hits composer, incl Sweet Charity,
Barnum, City of Angels |
18 Nov |
| Judith Cook |
70 |
English journalist, playwright, biographer, theatrical
researcher |
12 May |
| Alistair Cooke |
95 |
broadcaster famed for his BBC Letter From America
|
[midnight] 29-30 Mar |
| Peter Coxhead |
79 |
Founder and principal of the Mountview Academy in
North London |
10 Jul |
| Frances Dee |
94 |
Hollywood actresss, cult star of I Walked With
a Zombie (1943) |
6 Mar |
| Elisabeth Dalton |
63 |
Witty English set and costume designer with Stuttgart
Ballet |
27 Mar |
| Alexei De Keyser |
36 |
Executive producer for BBC Drama (inc Waking the
Dead 2003-4) |
28 Jul |
| Jean de Leon |
81 |
Q Theatre family member, inspirational Richmond drama
teacher |
6 Oct |
| Robert Dhery |
83 |
French clown, actor and director of La Plume de
me Tante fame |
5 Dec |
| Sacha Distel |
71 |
Heart-throb French singer, guitarist and entertainer
|
22 Jul |
| Fred Ebb |
76 |
Broadway lyricist incl Cabaret, Chicago
and ‘New York, New York’ |
12 Sep |
| Sam Edwards |
89 |
NBC radio star; screen actor and voice of Disney’s
‘Thumper’ |
28 Jul |
| Paul Farrah |
45 |
Generous talent-spotter and charismatic West End producer
|
23 Nov |
| Antonio Gades |
67 |
Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer on stage
and film |
20 Jul |
| Max Geldray |
88 |
Jazz harmonica player, featured artiste of BBC Radio’s
Goon Show |
2 Oct |
| Cora Goffin |
102 |
English actress, panto Principal Boy; Emile Littler’s
widow |
10 May |
| Fritha Goodey |
31 |
Promising RNT and West End actress who took her own
life |
05 Sep |
| Sidonie Goossens OBE |
105 |
Charismatic harpist, principal of the BBC Symphony
Orchestra |
14 Dec |
| Spalding Gray |
62 |
Master of the one-man show, creator of Swimming
to Cambodia |
7 Mar |
| Hubert Gregg |
89 |
English actor, composer and broadcaster (BBC Thanks
for the Memory) |
29 Mar |
| Ute Hagen |
84 |
RADA-trained actress; Broadway’s Nina, Blanche
and Martha |
24 Jan |
| Arthur Hailey |
84 |
English novelist whose best-sellers were frequently
screened |
24 Nov |
| Wally Harper |
63 |
Broadway pianist, stage and concert partner for Barbara
Cook |
8 Oct |
| Hugh Hastings |
87 |
Author Seagulls Over Sorrento, a Young Vic
company stalwart |
26 Nov |
| C Walter Hodges |
95 |
Illustrator and Shakespearean scholar, whose studies
influenced the design of Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark |
26 Nov |
| Arthur Hopcraft |
71 |
Award-winning British screenwriter for ITV and BBC
|
22 Nov |
| Russell Hunter |
79 |
Glaswegian actor, ‘Lonely’ to Edward Woodward’s
TV spy Callan |
26 Feb |
| Howard Keel |
85 |
London’s first ‘Curly’ (1947), MGM
singing star, Dallas heart-throb |
7 Nov |
| Alan King |
76 |
Growly, cigar-chewing New York comic, actor and best-seller
|
9 May |
| Sam Kogan |
58 |
Russian founder of the School for the Science of Acting
in London |
10 Nov |
| Ivan Kyncl |
51 |
Czech-born, London’s leading theatre photographer
since 1980 |
|
