| Name |
Age |
|
Died on |
| James Aubrey |
62 |
British screen actor: Ralph in Lord of the Flies,
Gavin in A Bouquet of Barbed Wire |
6th Apr |
| Beryl Bainbridge DBE |
77 |
Leading English novelist, once an actress at the Liverpool
Playhouse |
2nd July |
| Rudolf Barshai |
86 |
Russian conductor, collaborator with Shostakovich,
Borodin String Quartet founder |
2nd Nov |
| Martin Benson |
91 |
British actor memorable as a screen villain, notably
the Vizier in The King & I |
28th Feb |
| Jack Birkett |
75 |
‘The Incredible Orlando’: blind but flamboyant
English dancer, singer and actor |
10th May |
| Jerry Bock |
81 |
Broadway composer, including Fiorello (1959)
& Fiddler on the Roof (1964) |
3rd Nov |
| Roderick Brydon |
71 |
Founder and conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
a Britten opera specialist |
23rd June |
| Geoffrey Burgon |
69 |
Prolific composer, memorably scores for screen hits
including Brideshead Revisited |
21st Sep |
| Ian Carmichael OBE |
89 |
English stage and screen actor, a notable Bertie Wooster
and Lord Peter Wimsey |
5th Feb |
| Christopher Cazenove |
64 |
Aristocratic English stage and screen actor, Ben Carrington
in Dynasty |
7th Apr |
| Claude Chabrol |
80 |
French idiosyncratic film director, pioneer of nouvelle
vague (New Wave) cinema |
12th Sep |
| Peter Cheeseman CBE |
78 |
Proponent of theatre-in-the round, director of the
New Vic at Newcastle under Lyme |
27th Apr |
| Jill Clayburgh |
66 |
American stage and screen actress, recently starring
in four successful NYC dramas |
5th Nov |
| Graham Crowden |
87 |
Tall Edinburgh-born actor, ‘one of the great
eccentrics of the British theatre’ |
19th Oct |
| Tony Curtis |
85 |
Movie actor (memorably Some Like It Hot, 1959)
and star of the gossip columns |
29th Sep |
| Evelyn Dall |
92 |
Vivacious blonde singer actress in revue, musicals
and with the Bert Ambrose band |
10th Mar |
| Johnny Dankworth KBE |
82 |
Leading English jazz saxophonist and fertile composer;
husband of Cleo Laine |
6th Feb |
| Dino De Laurentis |
91 |
Italian cinema mogul, producer to the movie greats
including Fellini and Lynch |
11th Nov |
| Donal Donnelly |
78 |
Legendary Irish actor; a definitive Christy Mahon
in The Playboy of the Western World |
4th Jan |
| Clive Donner |
84 |
British film, television and theatre director |
6th Sep |
| Blake Edwards |
88 |
Hollywood director, esp The Pink Panther series.
Julie Andrews’ husband for 40 years |
16th Dec |
| Eddie Fisher |
82 |
Pop vocalist and actor who married both Debbie Reynolds
and Elizabeth Taylor |
22nd July |
| Tom Fleming CVO OBE |
82 |
Scottish actor, director and broadcaster, proponent
of a National Theatre for Scotland |
18th Apr |
| Peter Graves |
83 |
American screen actor, including lead roles in Airplane!
and Mission:Impossible |
14th Mar |
| Katherine Grayson |
88 |
Petite soprano in film and stage musicals, MGM star
including Kiss Me Kate (1953) |
17th Feb |
| Dennis Hopper |
74 |
American actor, co-writer, director and co-star of
the movie Easy Rider (1969) |
29th May |
| Lena Horne |
92 |
American singer and actress, significant figure in
the 1960s civil rights movement |
9th May |
| Joyce Howard |
88 |
British stage and screen star in the 1940s, Hollywood
story analyst in the 1960s |
23rd Nov |
| Lionel Jeffries |
83 |
London-born character actor in British films, screenwriter
and film director |
19th Feb |
| Geoffrey Johnson Smith |
86 |
Telegenic pioneer BBC television journalist with Tonight,
Tory MP and minister |
12th Aug |
| Elliott Kastner |
80 |
NY-born independent film producer who spent much of
his career in Britain |
30th June |
| George Kitson |
88 |
Principal of Central School of Speech & Drama
who won degree status for his students |
10th June |
| Philip Langridge CBE |
70 |
Operatic tenor in complex roles: Aschenbach, Peter
Grimes, Peter Quint and Florestan |
5th Mar |
| Stefanos Lazaridis |
67 |
British opera’s busiest, most demanding stage
designer, most notably with ENO |
8th May |
| Rue McClanahan |
76 |
Emmy-winning actress who played the fun-loving Blanche
in The Golden Girls |
3rd June |
| Simon McCorkindale |
58 |
British screen actor, star of Casualty, appearing
in more than 200 episodes |
14th Oct |
| Kate McGarrigle |
63 |
Canadian composer, folk singer and musical matriarch |
18th Jan |
| Sir Charles Mackerras |
84 |
A popular NY-born Australian orchestral conductor
who worked mainly in Britain |
14th July |
| Kenneth McKellar |
82 |
Scottish tenor, a kilted stalwart of BBC television’s
White Heather Club |
9th Apr |
| Malcolm McLaren |
64 |
British music entrepreneur, creator of the Sex Pistols
in 1976 |
8th Apr |
| Mary Malcolm |
92 |
Aristocratic BBC radio and television announcer with
a unique clipped accent |
13th Oct |
