| John Alderson |
90 |
British-born screen character actor in US television
Westerns |
4th Aug |
| Elkan Allen |
83 |
Provocative British arts journalist and television
producer |
25th Jun |
| Patrick Allen |
79 |
Lantern-jawed British actor in authoritarian screen
rôles |
28th Jul |
| June Allyson |
88 |
Husky-voiced MGM star, most usually in ‘girl-next-door’
rôles |
8th Jul |
| Robert Altman |
81 |
Innovative director of M*A*S*H, Nashville,
Short Cuts, Gosford Park...... |
20th Nov |
| Sir Malcolm Arnold |
84 |
Prolific British composer in the concert hall and
on film |
23rd Sep |
| Joseph Barbera |
95 |
Animator, co-creator, with William Hanna, of Tom
& Jerry and The Flintstones |
18th Dec |
| Peter Barkworth |
77 |
Fastidious English actor who shared his skills with
RADA students |
21st Oct |
| Syd Barrett |
60 |
Pink Floyd lead singer, inspiring presence in Tom
Stoppard’s Rock’n’Roll |
7th Jul |
| Richard Bebb |
79 |
English stage and screen actor, collector of vocal
recordings |
12th Apr |
| Tom Bell |
73 |
Acerbic British character actor on stage and screen |
5th Oct |
| Peter Benchley |
65 |
Novelist and screenwriter, author of Jaws |
11th Feb |
| Ed Benedict |
94 |
Hanna-Barbera animator, co-creator of Yogi Bear
and The Flintstones |
28th Aug |
| Isabel Bigley |
80 |
The original ‘mission doll’ in Broadway’s
Guys and Dolls |
30th Sep |
| Monty Berman |
94 |
British film and television producer, a former Ealing
cameraman |
14th Jun |
| Ian Bevan |
87 |
Antipodean journalist who became a theatrical agent
and Harold Fielding's aide |
4th Nov |
| Kitty Black |
92 |
Impromptu pianist, influential London play agent,
reader and translator |
26th Dec |
| Joyce Blair |
73 |
English actress and dancer, in a double act with her
brother Lionel |
20th Aug |
| Todd Bolender |
92 |
Dancer,choreographer and director with New York City
Ballet |
12th Oct |
| Derek Bond |
86 |
English stage and screen actor, controversial president
of Equity |
15th Oct |
| Peter Boyle |
71 |
Bald, monkish Hollywood and US television character
actor |
12th Dec |
| Alec Bregonzi |
76 |
RSC ‘spear-carrier’ and stalwart of British
screen comedy |
4th Jun |
| Richard Bright |
68 |
Hollywood and stage hitman |
18th Feb |
| James Brown |
73? |
Energetic black American singer, R&B pioneer,
the ‘Godfather of Soul’ |
25th Dec |
| Kalman A Burnim |
78 |
Massachusetts theatre historian and Garrick Club archivist
|
30th Jul |
| Red Buttons |
87 |
American actor and comedian |
13th Jul |
| Rudi Carrell |
71 |
Dutch entertainer, star presenter on German television
for 40 years |
7th Jul |
| Ronald Cass |
83 |
Welsh composer who thrived in the heyday of West End
|
22nd Jun |
| Betty Comden |
89 |
Lyricist, writer & performer, Adolph Green’s
(d 2002) lifelong collaborator |
23rd Nov |
| Diana Coupland |
74 |
Geraldo’s nightingale, who became a talented
sit-com actress |
10th Nov |
| Michael Croucher |
76 |
BBC documentary maker, patient chronicler of real
life |
26th May |
| Ivor Cutler |
83 |
Droll Glaswegian humorist, poet and performer |
3rd Mar |
| Charlie Drake |
81 |
London-born comedian, slapstick artiste and dramatic
actor |
24th Dec |
| Sir John Drummond CBE |
71 |
Champion of the arts at the Edinburgh Festival and
the B |
6th Sep |
| Ernest Dudley |
97 |
Actor, author and host of BBC Radio’s Armchair
Detective |
1st Feb |
| Katherine Dunham |
96 |
Chicago-born international dancer, choreographer and
teacher |
21st May |
| Daniel Emilfork |
82 |
Franco-Chilean character actor, Krank in City of
Lost Children (TV) |
17th Oct |
| Joan Farjeon |
88 |
West End and Webber Douglas School scenic designer
|
8th Aug |
| Glenn Ford |
90 |
Genial leading Hollywood character actor |
30th Aug |
| Levi Fox OBE |
92 |
Shakespeare historian, director of the Stratford Birthplace
Trust |
3rd Sep |
| Patricia Foy |
83 |
BBC television producer, notably Fonteyn’s The
Magic of Dance |
26th Jul |
| Tony Franciosa |
77 |
Fiery Italian-American actor in Hollywood and on Broadway
|
19th Jan |
| William Franklyn |
81 |
English stage and screen actor, resonant speaker for
voice-overs |
31st Oct |
| Jill Fraser |
59 |
Artistic director of the influential Watermill Theatre,
Banbury |
10th Feb |
| Alan Freeman MBE |
79 |
BBC and Capital Radio disc jockey, Top of the Pops
front-man |
27th Nov |
