38 stories by "Ronald Bergan"
Dashing American actor best known for his many roles in hit TV series including Dr Kildare, The Thorn Birds and Shogun
Despite becoming a lauded stage and film actor, Richard Chamberlain, …
American stage and screen actor who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 film MoonstruckAfter more than two decades of distinguished work in the US theatre as an actor, director and teacher…
Actor who shone on the British stage and screen and took supporting roles in Hollywood movies of the 1950sThe actor Elizabeth Sellars, who has died aged 98, had a fulfilling career on televi…
Stage and screen star whose most famous role came in the original Broadway production of Kiss Me, Kate in the late 1940sAlthough Patricia Morison, who has died aged 103, starred in dozens of…
French stage and screen actor whose 1963 role in the comedy-thriller Les Tontons Flingueurs made him a starClaude Rich, who has died aged 88, was a familiar face in French cinema and theatre…
Queen of the French New Wave who combined sharp intelligence and smouldering sexualityWith her sensual, pouting mouth, her Gauloises-saturated voice, and her combination of sharp intelligenc…
Actor celebrated for her intellectual performances who achieved early success in Hiroshima Mon AmourFor her brave, unsentimental performance as an elderly woman agonisingly declining physica…
A musical star of stage and screen, he won acclaim for later work as a character actorThe Hollywood musical has produced several powerful, handsome baritones, the best of them being Nelson E…
Actor who radiated youthful charm as Liesl in The Sound of MusicThe actor Charmian Carr, who has died from complications relating to dementia aged 73, was a supporting player who appeared in…
Comic actor who brought hysteria to The Producers and charm to Willy WonkaAfter more than 30 years in show business, the frizzy-headed comic actor Gene Wilder, who has died aged 83, was most…
Actor whose biggest role was her first, playing the disabled child Helen Keller in The Miracle WorkerPatty Duke, who has died of complications from a ruptured intestine aged 69, was one of t…
Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni's L'Avventura and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceThe Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 9…
Actor best known for his roles in Scarface, The Sopranos and BigAlthough the supporting actor Robert Loggia, who has died aged 85 after suffering from Alzheimer's, played more than 200 role…
Grande dame of French film whose career spanned more than a half-centuryDanièle Delorme, who has died aged 89, began acting professionally in 1942 and continued until the end of the c…
Veteran stage, film and TV actor who triumphed in two major US stage roles: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Captain von Trapp in The Sound of MusicThe actor and folk-singer Theodore Bikel, …
Award-winning French screenwriter known for his work on Jules and Jim, Paris Belongs to Us and and My American UncleThe French New Wave, which changed notions of how films could be made, gav…
A composer of classic musicals, he wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasAmong the perennial Christmas songs, one of the most performed and popular is Have Yourself a Merry Little Chri…
Distinguished stage and screen actor best known for her role as the shallow and materialistic mother in the hit 1967 film The Graduate Continue reading...
American-born actor who brought a touch of glamour to British films of the 1950s Continue reading...
Hollywood film star of the 1930s who won Oscars for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth Continue reading...
Singer, dancer and actor whose Hollywood career was overshadowed by her marriage to Errol FlynnThe gifted singer, dancer and actor Patrice Wymore, who has died aged 87, had the misfortune to…
Oscar-nominated actor who brought sensitivity and warmth to her most famous role in Imitation of LifeFrom its earliest days, Hollywood, which has always lagged behind wider social advances, …
Viennese operetta and film star of the 30s who fled to America after the AnschlussBetween the two world wars, during the so-called "silver age" of Viennese operetta, the coloratura soprano M…
Film, opera and stage director known for La Reine Margot and his Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1976Unusually for a director, Patrice Chéreau, who has died of lung cancer aged 68, had more or le…
Star of British film thrillers who specialised in the role of the classy girlfriendIn the 1950s, while watching a second feature before the "big picture" at their local cinema, regular Briti…
