| Eddie Albert |
99 |
Amiable American actor on screen and stage |
26th May |
| Dave Allen |
68 |
Laid-back Irish stand-up comedian (usually sat on
a high stool) |
10th Mar |
| Betty Astell |
93 |
Variety artiste, panto principal boy, Cyril Fletcher’s
widow |
27th July |
| Anne Bancroft |
73 |
Oscar-winning star of screen and stage, the first
Mrs Robinson |
6th June |
| John Barber |
93 |
Incisive theatre critic for the Daily Express and
Daily Telegraph |
2nd Dec |
| Ronnie Barker OBE |
76 |
British TV comic actor and writer, memorable star
of Porridge |
3rd Oct |
| Barbara Bel Geddes |
82 |
NY-born stage and screen actress, Ms Ellie Ewing in
Dallas (1978) |
8th Aug |
| Belita (Jepson-Turner) |
82 |
English skating star (incl. Ice-Capades),actress
and dancer |
18th Dec |
| Norman Bird |
80 |
Busy English character actor, ‘the man with the
cardigan’ |
22nd Apr |
| Mary Hayley Bell |
91 |
Actress, playwright and novelist, widow of Sir John
Mills |
1st Dec |
| Ed Bishop |
72 |
NY-born stage and screen actor working mainly in London |
8th June |
| Lloyd Bochner |
81 |
Canadian screen actor, Cecil Colby in Dynasty
|
29th Oct |
| James Booth |
77 |
Reluctant British hero of Zulu who ended his
career in Twin Peaks |
11th Aug |
| John Box |
85 |
Film production designer incl Lawrence of Arabia
and Doctor Zhivago |
7th March |
| Ronnie Bridges |
86 |
Revuedeville pianist at the Windmill Theatre for 19
years |
8th Dec |
| Roger Brierley |
70 |
Tall,striking character actor, an active member of
British Equity |
23rd Sep |
| June Bronhill |
74 |
Australian soprano, operetta star at Sadler’s
Wells, London |
25th Jan |
| Fernando Bujones |
50 |
Miami-born star of the American Ballet Theatre |
10th Nov |
| Humphrey Carpenter |
58 |
Mischievous polymath: broadcaster, biographer, musician |
4th Jan |
| Johnny Carson |
79 |
NBC’s king of the Late-Night Shows |
23rd Jan |
| George Cosmatos |
64 |
Cosmopolitan film director (Rambo), raconteur and
bon vivant |
19th Apr |
| Dan Crawford |
62 |
Islington fringe impresario: 35 years at his influential
King’s Head |
13th July |
| Anthony Creighton |
82 |
Minor playwright, sometime collaborator with John
Osborne |
22nd Mar |
| Constance Cummings CBE |
95 |
Seattle-born, British stage and screen star for 70
years |
23rd Nov |
| Nick Darke |
56 |
Cornish playwright, including The Dead Monkey
starring David Soul |
10th June |
| Sandra Dee (née Zuck) |
62 |
Symbol of wholesome girlhood in Grease, Mrs
Bobby Darin |
20th Feb |
| Victoria de los Angeles |
81 |
Spanish lyric soprano, Beecham’s favourite Mimi
and Carmen |
15th Jan |
| James Doohan |
85 |
Canadian stage and screen actor, Star Trek’s
Scotty |
20th July |
| Don Durant |
72 |
Star actor and singer in the 1950s TV cult hit Johnny
Ringo |
15th Mar |
| Leslie Duxbury |
79 |
Innovative screenwriter for Granada TV’s Coronation
Street |
17th Oct |
| Robert Farnon |
87 |
Prolific Guernsey-based Canadian composer and arranger |
23rd Apr |
| Abd’Elkar Farrah |
79 |
‘Design by Farrah’
in the RSC’s glory days from 1961 to 1987 accommodated the
surging history cycles with great beauty |
18th Dec |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald |
91 |
Dublin-born actress in Hollywood and on Broadway,
Tony nominee |
17th July |
| Cyril Fletcher |
91 |
BBC comedian, writer, summer show and pantomime producer |
1st Jan |
| John Fowles |
79 |
English novelist, author of The French Lieutenant’s
Woman |
5th Nov |
