28 stories by "Dennis Barker"
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 s…
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 throug…
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…
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 Bart'…
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 of …
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…
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…
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…
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 Sheila…
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…
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…
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 …
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 Bart'…
A dignified comic actor in farce and on TV, and a dedicated disability campaigner alongside her husband, Brian Rix Continue reading...
She was the versatile stalwart of stage and screen from A Taste of Honey to Hello Dolly! Continue reading...
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Feisty playwright best known for her ground-breaking debut, A Taste of Honey Continue reading...
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…
