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Friday, October 19, 2012

Obituaries: Bob Brooks by Richard Anthony Baker

In one of television’s most famous commercials, an elderly man is seen going from one second-hand bookshop to another trying to buy a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley. He succeeds only wh…

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Obituaries: Roy Bates by Richard Anthony Baker

Before the days of BBC Radio 1, the appetite of youngsters for pop and rock music was supplied during the 1960s by pirate radio stations off the east coast of England, one of them, Radio...

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Obituaries: Ken MacManus by Richard Anthony Baker

After marrying into a circus family, Ken MacManus, with no previous experience as an entertainer, quickly established himself as a bareback rider, clown, animal trainer and master of ceremon…

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Obituaries: Bernard Hunter by Richard Anthony Baker

Switching careers in midstream, Bernard Hunter started out as a singer and then learned to dance before becoming an agent, representing some of his clients into his late 80s. Along the way, …

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Obituaries: Andy Williams by Richard Anthony Baker

The weekly television show hosted by the silky-voiced crooner Andy Williams was as popular in Britain as it was in America. Throughout the 1960s, Williams had a string of hits in the British…

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Obituaries: Herbert Lom by Richard Anthony Baker

In a film career spanning more than 65 years, Herbert Lom played an extraordinarily wide range of characters. But he will forever be remembered as the French police chief Charles Dreyfus, wh…

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Obituaries: George Hurst by Richard Anthony Baker

The fortunes of the little known BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra were transformed under the leadership of the conductor George Hurst. During his ten years at the helm, he turned the orchestr…

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Obituaries: Derek Jameson by Richard Anthony Baker

Almost as if to prove it did not bear a grudge, the BBC turned Derek Jameson into a national celebrity after he lost a libel action against a Radio 4 show. He was given television...The post…

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Chorus Line composer Hamlisch dies by Richard Anthony Baker

American composer Marvin Hamlisch has died in Los Angeles after a brief illness, aged 68.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Keeping Up Appearances actor Geoffrey Hughes dies at the age of 68 by Richard Anthony Baker

Television actor Geoffrey Hughes, known for his work on Keeping Up Appearances and Coronation Street, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 68.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Actor Simon Ward dies aged 70 by Richard Anthony Baker

Simon Ward, the actor who gained national acclaim for his portrayal of Churchill in Richard Attenborough's epic 1972 film, Young Winston, has died after a long illness.

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Friday, April 20, 2012