51 stories by "Anthony Hayward"
Veteran stage and screen actor who played Auntie Flo in the popular 1970s sitcom And Mother Makes ThreeThe actor Valerie Lush, who has died aged 97, was a familiar face in the 1970s as the c…
Actor who played Dr Gordon in the 1970s screen phenomenon of The Adventures of Black BeautyWilliam Lucas, who has died aged 91, was already a veteran television actor before he played Dr Gor…
Actor best known for appearances in the Lindsay Anderson films If …. and O Lucky Man!Mary MacLeod, who has died aged 78, was a prolific character actor whose face was more familiar than he…
Actor best known for his deadpan role in the holiday camp comedy Hi-de-Hi!The actor Barry Howard, who has died of cancer aged 78, was best known to TV viewers for his role in the BBC sitcom …
Actor who performed in the stage musicals Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables and was admired for her roles in TV series such as Emmerdale and Coronation StreetMorag Siller, who has died of breas…
Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the ITV series William TellOne of ITV's first action heroes, notable for his expertise with a crossbow, was William Tell, played by Conrad P…
Actor best known for playing the butch biker Franky Doyle in the Australian television soap Prisoner: Cell Block HThe Australian actor Carol Burns, who has died of cancer aged 68, gained a c…
Actor who played the bumbling manager Mr Rumbold in the popular TV comedy Are You Being Served?The actor Nicholas Smith, who has died aged 81, was best known for playing Mr Rumbold, the inef…
Most often seen on ITV's early evening and weekend news programmes, Gordon Honeycombe topped several polls as the viewers' favourite newscaster, the
Actor best known as Derek Wilton in Coronation StreetFor 21 years the actor Peter Baldwin, who has died of cancer aged 82, played the dopey fusspot Derek Wilton in Coronation Street. With Th…
Welsh actor who starred in film, TV and stage productions ranging from Please Sir! to Under Milk WoodAs the philosophical science teacher Mr Price, notable for his sarcastic wit, in the tele…
Actor and writer who scripted the hit TV series Tenko, a drama about the lives of women imprisoned in a Japanese internment campThe actor-turned-writer Jill Hyem, who has died of cancer aged…
Actor best known for his role in The Great Escape who became a stalwart of TV drama Continue reading...
Stage and screen actor who brought laughs to the ITV sitcom Benidorm Continue reading...
Character actor who appeared in several sitcoms and was best known for his role as 'Horrible' Ives in PorridgeThough the actor Ken Jones, who has died aged 83 of cancer, was a television sit…
Actor best known for playing John Walton Sr in the US television family drama The WaltonsRalph Waite, who has died aged 85, worked as a social worker, Presbyterian minister, publicist and bo…
Actor and children's television writer known for Catweazle, Robin of Sherwood and The BorrowersRichard Carpenter, who has died of a blood clot aged 82, brought intelligent, imaginative enter…
Actor known for her roles in The Ipcress File and CrossroadsThe actor Sue Lloyd, who has died aged 72, exuded glamour and sophistication on screen in the 1960s, before finding renewed fame t…
Stalwart of the TV police series Juliet BravoNoel Collins, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a linchpin of the police series Juliet Bravo throughout its entire six-series run. As Sergeant …
As the eccentric anthropologist Honor Klein, sleeping with her half-brother in Iris Murdoch and JB Priestley's musical-beds comedy A Severed Head (1963-64), she was reputed to be the first a…
Distinctive, durable British character actor on stage and screenTerence Longdon, who has died of cancer aged 88, was a character actor whose parted hair and thick-set face " though not his n…
Actor best known as Colonel Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot MumDonald Hewlett, who has died of pneumonia aged 90, was already in his mid-50s and had a long career as a screen character actor …
Actor known for his role as Mr Lucas in Are You Being Served?The actor Trevor Bannister, who has died of a heart attack aged 76, was best known to television viewers from his role in Are Yo…
She even had a brief Broadway run as the title character in the musical Maggie (1953), based on J.M. Barrie's play What Every Woman Knows. Although there were only five performances, she was…
Actor known for his role as Ted Hope in CrossroadsAn actor with a military bearing, Charles Stapley, who has died aged 85, was best known to television viewers as Ted Hope in the soap opera …
