| Ian Adam |
64 |
Scottish vocal coach and singer |
10th May |
| Michelangelo Antonioni |
94 |
Influential Italian film director who flourished in
the ‘60s, notably L’Avventura |
30th Jul |
| Carlo Maria Badini |
81 |
Helmsman of La Scala, Milan, who restored both its
fiscal and artistic standing |
19th Apr |
| Maurice Béjart |
80 |
French choreographer and ballet director |
22nd Nov |
| Ingmar Bergman |
89 |
Sweden’s visionary film-maker whose work profoundly
influenced cinema |
30th Jul |
| Joey Bishhop |
89 |
American comedian and talk-show host, last of the
Hollywood Rat Pack |
17th Oct |
| Janet Blair |
85 |
Hollywood actress, singer and dancer |
19th Feb |
| Eric Braun |
86 |
Colourful, cycling theatre critic, biographer, journalist
and showbiz publicist |
21st Nov |
| Jean-Claude Brialy |
74 |
Charismatic French stage and film actor at the heart
of the New Wave |
30th May |
| Jean-Pierre Cassel |
74 |
Elegant French film and stage actor with an international
career |
19th Apr |
| Alan Coren |
69 |
Humorist, journalist and witty broadcaster |
18th Oct |
| Régine Crespin, Légion
d’Honneur |
80 |
Sensuous French operatic soprano, who became a mezzo
late in her career |
5th Jul |
| Anna Cropper |
68 |
Busy television actress, wife of Bill Roache (Ken
Barlow on Coronation Street) |
22nd Jan |
| Yvonne De Carlo |
84 |
Exotic Canadian actress in Hollywood; the ‘I’m
Still Here’ star of Follies |
8th Jan |
| Solveig Dommartin |
45 |
Compelling French actress, winged trapeze star of
Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire |
11th Jan |
| Angela Dowding (Lascelles) |
87 |
West End actress (incl. Rookery Nook 1942),
who married into the Royal family |
28th Feb |
| Hilda Durante |
81 |
Variety artiste partnered with husband Ted, stars
of BBC’s The Good Old Days |
20th Mar |
| Ivor Emmanuel |
79 |
Musical comedy star, Welsh-speaking anchor man for
the BBC’s Land of Song |
19th Jul |
| Ray Evans |
92 |
Oscar-winning lyricist with Jay Livingston ( incl
.Che Sera, Sera; Mona Lisa) |
15th Feb |
| Clive Exton |
77 |
British television playwright, film scriptwriter and
satirist |
16th Aug |
| Don Fellows |
84 |
American actor who spent most of his professional
life in British television |
21st Oct |
| Celia Franca, CC |
85 |
London-born dancer, choreographer, founder of the
National Ballet of Canada |
19th Feb |
| Ed Friendly Jr |
85 |
NBC producer of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In
and Little House on the Prairie |
17th Jun |
| Tudor Gates |
76 |
Prolific playwright and screenwriter, West End theatre
habituee |
12th Jan |
| Alice Ghostley |
81 |
Tony-Award winning stage and screen actress, Esmeralda
in Bewitched on TV |
21st Sep |
| Syd Golder |
83 |
Ex-convict who became a lunch-time theatre producer
at the King’s Head |
22nd Mar |
| Howard Goorney |
85 |
Stage and TV actor and co-founder with Joan Littlewood
of Theatre Workshop |
29th Mar |
| Gordon Gostelow |
82 |
Australian-born stage and screen actor who triumphed
with the RSC |
3rd Jun |
| Colin Graham OBE |
75 |
British opera director, artistic director of the Opera
Theatre of St Louis |
6th Apr |
| Charles Griffith |
77 |
Off-beat Chicago screenwriter and director who created
The Little Shop of Horrors |
28th Sep |
| George Grizzard |
79 |
American theatre stalwart with a professional affiliation
to Edward Albee |
2nd Oct |
