| Magnus Magnuson |
77 |
Icelandic-born Scottish journalist and author, BBC
Mastermind quizmaster |
7th Jan |
| Norman Mailer |
84 |
Reality novelist, literary journalist and playwright
(The Deer Park, NY 1967) |
10th Nov |
| Delbert Mann |
87 |
Hollywood film and television director
(including Marty and The Bachelor Party) |
11th Nov |
| Bernard Manning |
76 |
Northern club comedian with a brutal flair for racist
and sexist jokes |
18th Jun |
| Marcel Marceau |
84 |
French clown and mime artist, creator of the white
faced Bip |
22nd Sep |
| Robert Marsden |
85 |
RSC Theatre-Go-Round actor, RADA drama coach and director |
5th Apr |
| Ronald Mavor |
82 |
Playwright, 1960s director of the Scottish Arts Council,
James Bridie’s son |
9th Aug |
| Lois Maxwell |
80 |
Elegant Canadian actress, fourteen times Miss Moneypenny
to James Bond |
29th Sep |
| Bobbie Medlock |
92 |
Music hall artiste with her husband Vic Marlowe, a
hit with ENSA audiences |
11th Jan |
| George Melly |
80 |
Jazz singer, art collector and critic, Flook
scriptwriter, author and bon viveur |
5th Jul |
| Lynn Merrick |
87 |
Hollywood blonde in Western B-movies for Republic
and Columbia Pictures |
25th Mar |
| Gian Carlo Menotti |
95 |
Popular opera composer who believed in singable melody
and dramatic effect |
1st Feb |
| Robin Midgley |
72 |
Theatre director incl. RSC, Haymarket Leicester, West
End and Cambridge TC |
19th May |
| ‘Honest Ed’ Mirvish, OC, CBE |
92 |
Exuberant Toronto retailer and theatre producer, saviour
of the Old Vic |
11th Jul |
| Sheridan Morley |
65 |
Theatre scion: Coward’s first biographer, drama
critic, broadcaster and director |
16th Feb |
| Ulrich Mühe |
54 |
German actor, international star of the Oscar-winning
film The Lives of Others |
22nd Jul |
| Barry Nelson |
89 |
Broadway and screen actor. The American TV James Bond,
aka ‘Jimmy’ |
7th Apr |
| John Normington |
70 |
Versatile supporting actor at the Royal Court, RSC
and National Theatre |
26th Jul |
| Luciano Pavarotti |
71 |
Acclaimed Italian operatic tenor with a uniquely thrilling
voice |
6th Sep |
| Oscar Peterson |
82 |
Jazz pianist, king of swing who won international
and jazz academic acclaim |
23rd Dec |
| Steven Pimlott, OBE |
52 |
Versatile RSC, West End and opera director |
14th Feb |
| Marla Powers |
75 |
Hollywood B-movie star with a busy broadcasting and
teaching career |
11th Jun |
| Carlo Ponti |
94 |
Italian film producer who discovered and married Sophia
Loren |
10th Jan |
