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Performing Arts Obituaries 2006 (2)

Compiled by John Thaxter

A list of performing arts people who died during 2006

Freddie Garrity 69 Manchester-born lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers 19th May
Lou Gish (née Curram) 35 Stage actress, daughter of the actress Sheila Gish 20th Feb
Michael Gilbert CBE 93 Prolific, classic crime novelist, playwright and scriptwriter 8th Feb
Joyce Grant 82 Comic actress with the RSC, the National and in the West End 11th Jul
Sally Gray 90 Blonde heroine of the Rnglish stage and screen, noted for her beauty 24th Sep
Peter Greenwell 76 Revue pianist, composer and Noël Coward’s regular accompanist 4th Jun
Kenneth Griffith 84 Frenetic Welsh actor and controversial BBC film-maker 25th Jun
Val Guest 94 British film director and screenwriter (incl. Casino Royale) 10th May
David Halliwell 69 northern English playwright (notably Little Malcolm....the Eunuchs) 16th Mar
Peter Hawkins 82 Screen actor and gifted voiceover artist including the Daleks 8th Jul
Mickey Hargitay 80 Muscle man and movie co-star with his wife Jayne Mansfield 14th Sep
Bill Hays 67 Durham-born maverick theatre and television director 2nd Mar
Peter Hepple 79 Drama critic, showbiz enthusiast and veteran editor of The Stage 12th Oct
Arthur Hill 84 Canadian actor on Broadway and West End stages 22nd Oct
Charles Hodgson 78 Hyperactive English actor on screen and radio; documentary producer 21st Dec
Ian Horsburgh 64 Principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1968-2002) 22nd Jul
Shohei Imamura 79 Distinguished film director of Japanese life in the raw 30th May
John Junkin 76 Comic entertainer and scriptwriter for British TV and radio 7th Mar
Rocío Jurado 61 Tempestuous flamenco diva and Spanish film actress 1st Jun
Luba Kadison 99 Lithuanian actress who kept Yiddish theatre alive in New York 4th May
Phyllis Kirk 79 Danish-American stage and screen actress; star of House of Wax 19th Oct
Dennis Kirkland 63 Thames TV’s producer and director of The Benny Hill Show 16th Feb
Nigel Kneale 84 A Manxman: television dramatist, creator of Quatermass for BBC 29th Oct
Hugh Latimer 93 West End actor of elegant technique in comedies and thrillers 12th Jun
Al Lewis 82 Brooklyn-born actor and storyteller, Grandpa in The Munsters 3rd Feb
György Ligeti 83 Volatile, avant garde composer of Hungarian descent 12th Jun
Peter Ling 80 British television scriptwriter, co-creator of Crossroads for ITV 14th Sep
Anna Marly 88 French singer who whistled the BBC theme tune to inspire the Maquis 15th Feb
Hilary Mason 89 British character actress, best known for villains and spinsters 5th Sep
Richard Mayes DFC 83 Stage actor with the RSC, Mermaid, BOV and Open Space theatres 22nd Oct
Henry McGee 76 An oustanding farceur, one of the funniest straight men on TV 28th Jan
Hugo McLauchlan 88 Adagio-dancing male half of the Babette and Raoul twosome 5th Jan
Kevin McClory 80 Dublin-born British film producer - notably Thunderball (1965) 20th Nov
Frank Middlemass 87 Britain’s busiest character actor on stage, screen and radio 8th Sep
Mary O’Malley 87 Co-founder of Belfast’s Lyric Players and Lyric Theatre 22nd Apr
Bill Miller 91 Brooklyn-born jazz pianist and Frank Sinatra’s accompanist 11th Jul
Stella Moray 83 West End and Players Theatre stalwart, ‘Ivy Meacher’ in Crossroads 6th Aug
Philippe Noiret 76 Versatile French character and comedy actor with TNP and on film 23rd Nov
Sven Nykvist 81 Leading Swedish cinematographer for Bergman and Tarkovsky 20th Sep
Jack Palance 87 Oscar-winning cowboy hard man, Stanley Kowalski on Broadway 10th Nov
Clive Perry OBE 70 Theatre administrator and director at the Birmingham Rep and Pitlochry 11th Nov
Gene Pitney 65 Singer song-writer 5th Apr
Channing Pollock 79 Celebrated ‘white dove’ magician and successful screen actor 18th Mar
Jay Presson Allen 84 Texan playwright, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1st May
Allan Prior 84 Prolific British television screenwriter, inc. Z Cars, and The Onedin Line 1st Jun

Compiled with acknowledgements to The Times and The Stage

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