Obituaries
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Leslie Linder: Actor and theatrical agent who worked with Jack Lemmon and Peter Sellers
Leslie Linder was one of the most respected and successful theatrical agents during the boom years of British films in the 1960s and '70s.
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Charis Wilson: Model and writer who became muse and collaborator for the photographer Edward Weston
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
"A new and important chapter in my life opened on Sunday afternoon, April 22, 1934." So began the entry in the diary of Edward Weston, then 48, who had just completed a photoshoot with the 20-year-old Charis Wilson. He was right. She soon became his principle model, muse, amanuensis and lover, in a relationship which was to last for more than a decade.
Professor Nina Fishman: Dynamic labour and social historian best known for her work on trade unions
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Professor Nina Fishman was one of the outstanding labour and social historians of her generation. Her academic qualities were enhanced by an encyclopaedic depth of research into the most remote, albeit fascinating, aspects of British, European and American labour history. This was combined with a vivaciously enagaging personality that became an inspiration to countless young students whose minds Fishman opened up to a subject which some universities thought, mistakenly, had lost its old appeal. Professor Fishman's magic was to revive that interest, which she consolidated in numerous books and learned essays, culminating in a magnum opus two-volume biography of the miners' leader, the late Arthur Horner.
Jean Simmons: Actress who dazzled opposite the likes of Marlon Brando, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Jean Simmons was one of the great beauties of British cinema, and she had a talent to match. She played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948) when only 18, and won her first Oscar nomination.
Ali Hassan al-Majid: Iraqi official known as 'Chemical Ali' executed for genocide and crimes against humanity
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Ali Hassan al-Majid was one of the great monsters of the 20th century and carried out one of its vilest crimes. It was he who gave the orders for hundreds of thousands of Kurds to be gassed and the survivors massacred in 1987 and 1988. "The armed forces must kill any human being or animal present," he decreed.
Jyoti Basu: Marxist politician who combined realpolitik and revolutionary ideas
Monday, 25 January 2010
Jyoti Basu, who has died aged 95, was a staunch Marxist and a towering figure in Indian politics for six eventful decades. In 1997, he came close to becoming the county's first Communist Prime Minister.
Dee Anthony: Manager who helped Joe Cocker, Peter Frampton and Jethro Tull break into the American market
Monday, 25 January 2010
Following the first British invasion spearheaded by The Beatles in 1964, the American market became the Holy Grail for many British artists. However, "breaking the States", as became the common parlance in the music industry, often necessitated months of arduous touring, best negotiated under the watchful eye of a local manager or agent.
Angharad Jones: Television executive and Welsh prose writer
Monday, 25 January 2010
Angharad Jones was the woman behind some of the most popular programmes ever seen on S4C, the fourth television channel in Wales, where from 1996 to 2007 she was Commissioning Editor for Drama and Film.
Alex Parker: Scottish international full-back revered at Falkirk and Everton
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Alex Parker was that comparatively rare football being, a full-back and a folk hero. Renowned as a poised and stylish yet formidably combative performer while excelling in Everton's confident charge to the League Championship in 1962-63, he was revered no less passionately at his previous club, Falkirk, with whom he was awarded all but one of his 15 caps for Scotland.
Gordon Michell: Architect and conservationist celebrated for his work in the field of urban regeneration
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Gordon Michell will be remembered best for his work in the field of urban regeneration, for which he was appointed OBE in 1985, but during his long and distinguished professional career he played an important role in a number of influential projects.
Natalício Lima: Guitarist best known for the million-selling 'Maria Elena'
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Towards the end of 1963, the world was entranced by two Brazilian brothers playing "Maria Elena" on acoustic guitars. The record sold several million copies and although they had a long career before and after "Maria Elena", they are regarded as one-hit wonders.
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