Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Actor and comedian best known for his role as Bob Ferris in TV’s The Likely LadsRodney Bewes, who has died aged 79, will be most remembered for playing Bob Ferris, the well-intentioned and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Actor best known for his role as Mike Rawlins, the ‘Scouse git’ son-in-law of Alf Garnett in the BBC’s Till Death Us Do PartTony Booth, who has died aged 85, made his mark as an actor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Stage and screen actor whose military bearing perfectly suited him to the role of the brigadier in The Darling Buds of MayMoray Watson, who has died aged 88, had a long career as an actor in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Actor best known for playing Fagin in Lionel Bart’s film and stage musical Oliver!Ron Moody, who has died aged 91, saw himself not as a great comic actor – above all as Fagin in Lionel B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSunday, October 23, 2016
One of the greatest British TV comedy writers best known for Dad’s Army, Hi-de-Hi! and It Ain’t Half Hot MumWith his co-writer David Croft, Jimmy Perry, who has died aged 93, created one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:45PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Female impersonator who replaced tradition of mockery with glitter and eleganceDanny La Rue, who has died aged 81, flouted the usual showbusiness rule that, to be funny, every female imperso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34PMSunday, August 21, 2016
Brilliant comic actor and manager best known for his Whitehall farces who became a dedicated campaigner for people with learning disabilitiesBrian Rix, Lord Rix, who has died aged 92, devote…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMSaturday, August 20, 2016
A dignified comic actor in farce and on TV, and a dedicated disability campaigner alongside her husband, Brian RixThe acting career of Elspet Gray, who has died aged 83, was obscured but not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AMSaturday, May 21, 2016
Actor and theatre director best known for his many portrayals of Henry VIIIRegally tall and strong-featured, the Australian-born actor Keith Michell, who has died aged 88, made his reputatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Actor who starred as Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap with her husband, Richard AttenboroughWhen Agatha Christie’s murder mystery play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952, the actor Shei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Actor and theatre director best known for his many portrayals of Henry VIIIRegally tall and strong-featured, the Australian-born actor Keith Michell, who has died aged 89, made his reputatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Television newscaster who also succeeded as an actor and writer for the stageAlthough best known as a television newsreader, Gordon Honeycombe, who has died aged 79, was also an actor, narra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20PMThursday, August 6, 2015
Actor who entertained millions as the dodgy used-car dealer Arthur Daley in MinderThe actor George Cole, who has died aged 90, was most effective in two sorts of role: the exploiter and the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMThursday, June 11, 2015
Actor best known for playing Fagin in Lionel Bart’s film and stage musical Oliver!Ron Moody, who has died aged 91, saw himself not as a great comic actor – above all as Fagin in Lionel B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMFriday, May 29, 2015
A dignified comic actor in farce and on TV, and a dedicated disability campaigner alongside her husband, Brian Rix Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
She was the versatile stalwart of stage and screen from A Taste of Honey to Hello Dolly! Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
David Aukin, executive director of the National Theatre and president of this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, talks to Dennis BarkerA good test of the sincerity of people who oppose capital …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Comedian, actor and pantomime veteran, he played the garage mechanic Sid Hooper in the TV soap CrossroadsWith his doleful face, good-natured smile and ever- gleaming teeth, the stalwart ente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMSunday, September 15, 2013
Popular singer of the 1950s and host of her own BBC television show, Be My GuestThough there may have been an rather old-fashioned element in the sort of blonde, blue-eyed wholesomeness proj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMMonday, May 27, 2013
Actor best known for playing the officious ARP warden William Hodges in Dad's ArmyIn his early days as a cabaret artist, the actor Bill Pertwee, who has died aged 86, did a manic cricket rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Scriptwriter behind the Morecambe and Wise television shows dies aged 82The scriptwriter Eddie Braben, who has died aged 82, was best-known for his outstanding 14-year association with the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Creative force in the British film industry whose work included The Stepford Wives and Whistle Down the WindThe director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes, who has died aged 86, was one of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSunday, October 7, 2012
Singer, dancer and theatrical agent who represented Elizabeth Taylor and Richard BurtonBernard Hunter, who has died aged 92, was a precocious young performer, a popular singer and dancer, an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMSaturday, September 1, 2012
Popular comedian, singer and TV host grew up in poverty but became a star of the Palladium and a top-selling recording artistThere was never much intellectual cachet in being an admirer of M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Feisty playwright best known for her ground-breaking debut, A Taste of Honey Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Singer, comic actor and stalwart of Coronation StreetBetty Driver, who has died aged 91, was a gutsy and durable comic actor who meant one thing to young audiences and quite another to those…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMSaturday, July 16, 2011
A striking presence on stage and in the great days of British film, she played the prison governor of TV's Within These WallsFollowers of postwar cinema may well recall Googie Withers's stri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:19AMFriday, June 3, 2011
Actor best known as Paddy, the militant shop steward in the BBC's The Rag TradeThe actor Miriam Karlin, who has died of cancer aged 85, became famous in the early 1960s as Paddy, the militan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, June 1, 2009
Female impersonator who replaced tradition of mockery with glitter and elegance Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM 
