| Name |
Age |
|
Died on |
| Jill Adams |
77 |
Striking actress and former model who decorated British
film comedies and thrillers |
13th May |
| Bernard Archard |
91 |
British repertory actor, familiar face in television
drama, Oreste Pinto in Spycatcher |
1st May |
| Neil Aspinall |
65 |
The Beatles’ ‘roadie’ and business
manager, chief executive of Apple Corps |
24th March |
| Frith Banbury |
96 |
West End stage director who championed plays by Robert
Bolt and Rodney Ackland |
14th May |
| Clive Barnes CBE |
81 |
Trenchant dance and drama critic in London and New
York |
19th Nov |
| Jeremy Beadle |
59 |
British television prankster and darkly comic presenter
|
30th Jan |
| Alan Brian |
83 |
Prolific English journalist, theatre and film critic
|
23rd May |
| Ken Campbell |
66 |
Solo surrealist and actor; author of the marathon
Illuminatus!, director of The Warp |
31st Aug |
| Bertrand Castelli |
68 |
Broadway producer, notably executive producer of the
rock musical Hair (1967) |
1st Aug |
| Cyd Charisse |
86 |
Hollywood star and dancer with superb technique and
simply fabulous legs |
17th June |
| Sir Arthur C Clarke |
90 |
British science fiction writer, inspiration for 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968) |
19th March |
| Tony Church |
77 |
British actor, a co-founder of the RSC, Denver’s
‘Baron of the Bard’ for 14 years |
24th March |
| Peter Coke |
95 |
Actor and playwright, detective Paul Temple for the
BBC radio series 1954-1968 |
30th July |
| Peter Copely |
93 |
Skilful character actor on stage and in British television
drama |
7th Oct |
| Sir Bill Cotton CBE |
80 |
Television executive and BBC managing director who
spotted and nurtured talent |
11th Aug |
| Hazel Court |
82 |
English screen actress, star of Hammer horror movies
and films by Roger Corman |
12th April |
| Bryan Cowgill |
81 |
BBC One’s most successful controller and a controversial
MD with Thames Television |
14th July |
| Tom Criddle |
79 |
Boy soprano for HMV and a member of Sir Donald Wolfit’s
Shakespeare company |
6th March |
| Jules Dassin |
96 |
Blacklisted US director of Russian-French origin,
notable for The Naked City (1948) |
31st March |
| Jean Delannoy |
100 |
Prolific French film director whose work included
the classic L’Eternel Retour (1943) |
19th June |
| Bo Diddley |
79 |
Mississippi-born rock’n’roll singer, songwriter
and rhythmic guitarist |
2nd June |
| Ivan Dixon |
76 |
Black American screen actor and director of The
Bill Cosby Show (1970-71) |
16th March |
| Jack Douglas |
81 |
Comedy actor, the clumsy ‘Alf Ippititimus’
of the Carry On movies |
18th Dec |
| Ronnie Drew |
73 |
Singer who founded The Dubliners and changed the history
of modern Irish music |
16th Aug |
| Elaine Dundy |
86 |
New York novelist, author of The Dud Avocado
and wife of theatre critic Ken Tynan |
1st May |
| Julie Ege |
64 |
Norwegian screen actress and Bond girl in On Her
Majesty’s Secret Service |
29th April |
| John Esmonde |
71 |
British television comedy scriptwriter who, with Bob
Larbey, co-created The Good Life |
10th Aug |
| Mel Ferrer |
90 |
Hollywood actor and director, first husband of Audrey
Hepburn |
2nd June |
| William Fox |
97 |
Ebullient English character actor with a comanding
voice, on stage, screen and radio |
20th Sept |
| Beverely Garland |
82 |
Hollywood B-movie actress and star of two long-running
television series |
5th Dec |
| Estelle Getty |
84 |
New York actress who enjoyed late fame as Sophia Petrillo
in The Golden Girls |
22nd July |
| William Gibson |
94 |
American playwright, author of The Miracle Worker,
based on the life of Helen Keller |
25th Nov |
