| Peter Foy |
79 |
Revolutionary founder of Flying By Foy and the art
of stage flying |
17th Feb |
| Gretchen Franklin |
94 |
London character actress, ‘Ethel Skinner’
in BBC1’s EastEnders |
11th July |
| Christopher Fry |
97 |
Verse dramatist and translator, author of The Lady’s
Not for Burning |
30th June |
| Sheila Gish |
62 |
Glamorous English actress of astonishing tragic depth
and range |
9th Mar |
| Carlo Maria Giulini |
91 |
Italian operatic and symphonic conductor |
14th June |
| John Gower |
74 |
West End musical and television actor with a rich
baritone voice |
1st Aug |
| Guy Green OBE |
91 |
Oscar-winning British cinematographer and director |
15th Sep |
| Mel Gussow |
71 |
NY Times drama critic, famed for his playwright ‘conversations’ |
29th Apr |
| Willis Hall |
75 |
Northern English playwright, collaborator with Keith
Waterhouse |
7th Mar |
| Hildegarde (Loretta Sell) |
99 |
Cabaret and radio star in New York and London’s
café society |
29th July |
| Debra Hill |
54 |
Halloween co-writer and producer; producer
of The Fisher King et al |
7th Mar |
| William Hootkins |
57 |
Bulky, bearded Texan actor, a giant talent among
pygmies |
23rd Oct |
| Basil Hoskins |
75 |
Leading British stage actor, partner of the late Harry
Andrews |
17th Jan |
| Ursula Howells |
83 |
Elegant, husky-voiced English actress on stage and
screen |
16th Oct |
| Ruth Hussey |
93 |
Hollywood actress, notably The Philadelphia Story
and The Women |
19th Apr |
| Jerome Hynes |
45 |
Energetic arts administrator who ran the Wexford
Opera Festival |
18th Sep |
| Kathy Kay |
86 |
Bright, lively Scottish singer and television star |
9th Mar |
| Geoffrey Keen |
89 |
English actor who specialised in tetchy authority
figures |
3rd Nov |
| David Kossoff |
85 |
English character actor on stage, screen and radio |
23rd Mar |
| Gavin Lambert |
80 |
English screenwriter, Hollywood biographer, film critic,
novelist |
17th July |
| Francis Langford |
91 |
Husky USO singing star, film and radio actress, Bob
Hope co-star |
11th July |
| Marc Lawrence |
95 |
Hollywood’s archetypal bad guy,from Key Largo
to Shipping News |
28th Nov |
| Ronald Leigh-Hunt |
88 |
Elegant British screen actor with more than 50 films
to his credit |
12th Sep |
| Sid Luft |
89 |
Film producer (A Star Is Born); Judy Garland’s
third husband |
15th Sep |
| Noni Magdanz |
57 |
Much-loved American impro actress, a fixture on London’s
fringe |
3rd Feb |
| Pamela May |
88 |
Leading British ballerina with Vic-Wells and Royal
Ballet |
6th June |
| Virginia Mayo |
84 |
Broadway ingenue, decorative Hollywood blonde,
often on stage |
17th Jan |
| Jinny McCallister |
45 |
Playwright, front-of-house manager at London’s
Almeida Theatre |
2nd Apr |
| Ismail Merchant |
68 |
Indian-born producer of the Merchant-Ivory partnership |
25th May |
| Arthur Miller |
89 |
America’s greatest playwright, our 20th century
Shakespeare |
10th Feb |
| Sir John Mills CBE |
97 |
Popular British stage and screen star, versatile character
actor |
23rd Apr |
| Terence Morgan |
83 |
Leading British stage and screen actor, Laertes in
Olivier’s Hamlet |
25th Aug |
| Birgit Nilsson |
87 |
Unrivalled Wagnerian soprano from Sweden |
25th Dec |
| Sheree North |
73 |
Screen star, most recently ‘Babs’ (Kramer’s
mother) on Seinfeld |
4th Nov |
