"increasingly appeared on American radio and television channels, and later on their British counterparts. In the latter medium he appeared frequently in the ""Four Star Playhouse"" series, as well as producing some editions. For his roles in both television and on film, Niven was honoured with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died in 1983 from a virulent form of motor neurone disease at the age of 73. David Niven on screen, stage, radio, record and in print The British actor David Niven (1910–1983) performed in many genres of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. He"
"of cerebral thrombosis in Lewisham, London, at the age of 78. Kynaston Reeves Philip Arthur Reeves (29 May 1893 in London, England – 5 December 1971 in London), known professionally as Kynaston Reeves, was an English character actor who appeared in numerous films and many television plays and series. Reeves was born in London on 29 May 1893 and was the first of two sons of Arthur Robert Reeves (born 1855) and Clarissa Mary Kynaston (b. 1864). His brother was John Edward. He was married to the Australian Jewish stage actress Paula Sabina. They had two children, Thomas and Suzanne."
"career, he would appear in over 130 films, mostly in supporting or smaller roles. He is best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes franchise of the late 1930s and 1940s, beginning with 1939's ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". He would die of a heart attack on 16 March 1949, shortly after completing the filming of ""That Forsyte Woman"", which would be released later that year. Leyland Hodgson Leyland Hodgson (5 October 1892 – 16 March 1949), also known as Leland Hodgson, was an English-born American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in London on 5 October"
"cancelled by the BBC after the first episode had been broadcast. He was awarded an MBE in 1970, as part of Harold Wilson's Resignation Honours. In his book British Film Character Actors 1982, Terence Pettigrew wrote that Fowler 'was as English as suet pudding...his characters were neither honest nor irretrievably delinquent, merely wise in the ways of the streets, surviving through a combination of wit and stealth. He had a certain arrogance, but there was an appealing vulnerability, too.' Harry Fowler Henry James ""Harry"" Fowler, MBE (10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) was an English actor in film and"
"Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children. One of his other great passions was supporting Arsenal F.C. and he dropped references to Arsenal into scripts whenever the opportunity arose. In early 2004 after an aggressive and rare form of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma was diagnosed, Blake received treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey. He died on 11 December 2004 in London, England, aged 55. He is buried at the East London Cemetery and Crematorium. Christopher Blake Christopher Blake (23 August 1949 – 11 December 2004) was an English actor and screenwriter. He is perhaps best remembered for starring in the British"
"in the first screen version of the Charles Dickens novel ""Dombey and Son"". McKinnel's most widely known film to contemporary audiences is Hitchcock's ""Downhill"", as the harsh but ultimately repentant patriarch opposite Ivor Novello. McKinnel died of a heart attack in London on 29 March 1933, aged 62. Norman McKinnel Norman McKinnel (10 February 1870 – 29 March 1932) was a Scottish stage and film actor and playwright, active from the 1890s until his death. He appeared in many stage roles in the UK and overseas as well as featuring in a number of films, the best known of which"
"of his 76th birthday. Vanessa Redgrave wrote in his obituary of a ""loving man"" and a ""brilliant actor"". Malcolm Tierney Malcolm Tierney (25 February 1938 – 18 February 2014) was an English actor who appeared in many film and television roles. Tierney's father, Ernest, was a boilermaker and trained draughtsman, from Warrington, who worked at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. His mother, Agnes, née Kennedy, worked in the cotton mills. He attended St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Failsworth and studied design at the Manchester School of Art. While working as a textile designer and printmaker, he became involved in amateur dramatics"
"John Tunstall, ""Getting Together"", ""Marcus Welby, M.D."", ""The Man"" (1972), ""Terror in the Wax Museum"" (1973) and ""Arnold"" (1973). Knowles was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Knowles died from a brain hemorrhage at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, California on 23 December 1995, where he was cremated and his ashes distributed to family and friends. At the point of his death, Knowles left behind his wife Gladys, his 2 children as well as four grandchildren. Patric Knowles Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles."
"the cancer, but in 2010, while attending a charity event, he suffered from extreme back pains, so painful he couldn't even stand up. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer again. Doctors said that he died ""peacefully in his sleep"". He was survived by his wife. Geoffrey Hughes Geoffrey Hughes DL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film ""Yellow Submarine"" (1968), and rose to fame for portraying much-loved binman Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera ""Coronation Street"" from 1974 to 1983, making a return"
"Edward Burnham Edward Burnham (25 December 1916 – 30 June 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned over 60 years. Burnham was born in Lincolnshire, England, 25 December 1916. Burnham is best known for the films ""To Sir, with Love"" (1967), ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971) and ""10 Rillington Place"" (1971), and for twice appearing in ""Doctor Who"" in ""The Invasion"" (1968) and ""Robot"" (1974/5). His other television roles include ""Z-Cars"", ""The Saint"", ""The Avengers"", ""The Troubleshooters"", ""Special Branch"", ""Crown Court"", ""Thriller"", ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", ""Crossroads"", ""Tales of the Unexpected"", ""The Gentle Touch"", ""All Creatures Great and Small"","
"roles. Sharvell-Martin married Linda Hind in 1967 and the couple had two daughters. In the early part of 2010 he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus and died on 28 October 2010 at Wincanton, Somerset. Michael Sharvell-Martin Michael Sharvell-Martin (2 February 1944 – 28 October 2010) was a popular British television and stage actor whose career spanned more than three decades. He was a familiar character actor on British television screens, guest starring in most prime time dramas and comedies throughout the seventies and eighties. Sharvell-Martin was born Michael Ernest Martin in Herne Bay, Kent, and trained in stage"
"California, on 7 July 1980. He was survived by his wife. Reginald Gardiner William Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 – 7 July 1980) was an English actor on the stage, in films and television. Gardiner was born in Wimbledon, England, and he was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His parents wanted him to be an architect, but he insisted on a career as an actor. Gardiner started as a ""super"" on stage and eventually became well known on the West End stage. ""He appeared in British revues, plays, and films before delighting Broadway audiences in 1935"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"says Ronald Lewis has taken an overdose! He was declared bankrupt last year! Obviously nobody offered him work & he was driven to despair. I remember Ronnie... and that drinking session at the White Horse all those years ago... he was a kind boy & people used him. He was 53."" Ronald Lewis (actor) Ronald Lewis (11 December 1928 – 11 January 1982), was a Welsh actor, best known for his appearances in British films of the 1950s and 1960s. Lewis was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan. He moved with his family to London when he was seven. During the"
"of throat cancer at age 30, and a grandson, George Zucco (né Canto). Stella Zucco died from natural causes in 1999 (aged 99). George Zucco George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. In his horror films, he often played a suave villain or a mad doctor. Zucco was born in Manchester, Lancashire, on 11 January 1886. His mother Marian (née Rintoul) ran a dressmaking business; it is claimed she was a former lady-in-waiting"
"stunt involving a car went wrong. Jeffries retired from acting in 2001 and his health declined in the following years. He died on 19 February 2010 in a nursing home in Poole, Dorset. He had suffered from vascular dementia for the last twelve years of his life. He was married to Eileen Mary Walsh from 1951 until his death. They had a son and two daughters. His son Ty Jeffries is a composer, lyricist and cabaret artist. Lionel Jeffries' granddaughter is the novelist and playwright Amy Mason. Lionel Jeffries Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was"
"on 1 March 1980 at age 73 after suffering a heart attack at Everton's home ground Goodison Park whilst watching a match against their closest rivals, Liverpool. It was the first time that Dean had visited Goodison Park in several years, due to ill health. ""He belongs to the company of the supremely great, like Beethoven, Shakespeare and Rembrandt"", said Bill Shankly. His funeral took place at St. James' Church on Laird Street (the street where he was born) in Birkenhead. Dean was survived by his four children: William, Geoffrey, Ralph and Barbara; he outlived his wife Ethel, who died"
"London. Maurice Denham William Maurice Denham, OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor, who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films in his long career. Denham was born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, the son of Eleanor Winifred (née Lillico) and Norman Denham. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained as a lift engineer. Denham eventually became an actor in 1934 and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938, continuing to perform in that medium until 1997. Like fellow actor James Robertson Justice he played amateur rugby for Beckenham RFC. Denham initially"
"Chiswick, Greater London, from motor neurone disease (known as Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in North America), one month before what would have been his 83rd birthday. His acting career had lasted an impressive 75 years. Cusack is the grandfather of Irish Socialist Workers Party TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, and English actor, Max Irons. Cyril Cusack Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in numerous films and television productions in a career lasting more than 70 years. Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. His mother, Alice Violet"
"television series ""Inheritance"". Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of ""Equus"". He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon. Michael Goodliffe Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts. Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire, the son of a vicar, and educated at"
"his wife and daughter. John Scott Martin John Scott Martin (1 April 1926 – 6 January 2009) was an English actor born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. He made many film, stage and television appearances, but one of his most famous, though unseen, roles was as a Dalek operator in the long-running BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". Martin operated Daleks from 1965's ""The Chase"" through 1988's ""Remembrance of the Daleks"" making him the longest-running Dalek operator. He worked with eight different actors in the title role of The Doctor from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy, and also Richard Hurndall,"
"September 2011 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, aged 72. He had suffered from emphysema. Jonathan Cecil Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), more commonly known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English theatre, film and television actor. Cecil was born in London, England, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of The 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. He was the great-grandson of former Conservative Prime Minister The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Brought up at Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was"
"Alzheimer's disease on 10 March 2017 at his home in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. At the time of his death, he was separated from his wife Carol Haygarth, with whom he had two daughters, Katie and Becky. Tony Haygarth George Anthony David Haygarth (4 February 1945 – 10 March 2017) was an English television, film and theatre actor. After leaving Marlborough College Liverpool Haygarth worked unsuccessfully in 1963 as a lifeguard in Torquay, and also tried escapology, equally unsuccessfully. Other jobs included psychiatric nursing and he was an amateur actor before turning professional and appearing in repertory theatre, followed by"
"the biography ""High Time"" (1984) written by David Leigh. Marks was also the subject of the film ""Mr. Nice"" (2010), named after his 1997 autobiography. The film featured Rhys Ifans as Marks and Chloë Sevigny as his wife Judy. In 2013, Marks recounted his story in an episode of the television series ""Banged Up Abroad"". On 25 January 2015, it was announced that Marks had inoperable colorectal cancer. He died of the disease on 10 April 2016, at the age of 70. Specific General Howard Marks Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug"
"85. He was predeceased by his wife, Kathleen Rayner, for whom he had been caring during her ill-health for many years, and was survived by their daughter Alison and two grandchildren. Nicholas Selby Nicholas Selby (born James Ivor Selby, 13 September 1925 – 14 September 2010) was a British film, television and theatre actor. He appeared in more than one hundred television dramas on the BBC and ITV during the course of his career, including ""Our Friends in the North"", ""Poldark"" and ""House of Cards"". Selby was also a long-standing member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Selby was born in"
"in 2011. He died at home on 6 March 2010 and is survived by his son and daughter and second wife, Mary whom he married in 1985. Kenneth Newton William Kenneth Newton (6 November 1927 – 6 March 2010) was an English doctor who treated British and foreign royalty as well as many celebrities, and after retirement wrote the acclaimed novel ""The Two Pound Tram"" (under the name William Newton) which won the 2005 Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize (for first novelists over the age of 60). He was born in Ealing, west London the son of racing driver Frank"
"Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took over the role of Bond from Sean Connery in 1972, made his first appearance as 007 in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973), and went on to portray the spy in six more films until his retirement from the role in 1985. Appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991, Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for"
"Summer Olympics. He died in 1933 after falling down the steps of Knightsbridge tube station and suffering a heart attack. He was married to the actress Mary Dibley. Gerald Ames Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cimema, appearing in more than sixty films between his debut in 1914 and his retirement from the screen in 1928 in a career entirely encompassing the"
"John Scott Martin John Scott Martin (1 April 1926 – 6 January 2009) was an English actor born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. He made many film, stage and television appearances, but one of his most famous, though unseen, roles was as a Dalek operator in the long-running BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". Martin operated Daleks from 1965's ""The Chase"" through 1988's ""Remembrance of the Daleks"" making him the longest-running Dalek operator. He worked with eight different actors in the title role of The Doctor from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy, and also Richard Hurndall, who took on the"
"natural causes, aged 94, at Denville Hall in Northwood, London. At the time of his death, Toone was one of the last survivors of the Old Vic theatre company of the 1930s, having appeared alongside the likes of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in productions of Shakespeare. At the time, he was also the longest-lived actor to have appeared in ""Doctor Who"". For many years he had shared a house with his close friend, the actor Frank Middlemass. Geoffrey Toone Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910 – 1 June 2005) was an English character actor and former matinee idol, born in"
"during the Christmas season, Goolden, by then in his early eighties, played three performances a day: two matinées as Mole and the evening show as Bernard. Goolden's last role was on radio as Zaphod Beeblebrox IV in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", broadcast in January 1980. In the same year he announced his retirement. He died the following year in St Stephen's Hospital, Fulham, near the Chelsea house in which he had lived since 1924. He was unmarried. Richard Goolden Richard Percy Herbert Goolden, OBE (23 February 1895 – 18 June 1981) was a British actor, most famous for"
"actress Anthea Askey (1933–1999). Askey carried on working on his comedy career until just before he was hospitalised in July 1982 due to poor circulation which resulted in gangrene and the amputation of both legs. He died in London's St Thomas's Hospital on 16 November 1982 and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery. Arthur Askey Arthur Bowden Askey, CBE (6 June 190016 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvisation, and his use of catchphrases, which included ""Hello playmates!"", ""I thank you"" (pronounced ""Ay-Thang-Yaw""), and ""Before"
"2011. The BBC reported that he had ""died in London at the age of 81"". According to his official website, he died following a long illness. ""Doctor Who"" writer Mark Gatiss called him ""a childhood hero and the sweetest of gentlemen"". Former ""Doctor Who"" co-star Tom Baker also paid tribute, having visited him on the Friday before his death. Baker wrote ""We shall miss him terribly"" in a newsletter on his website, in which he also indicated that Courtney had been battling cancer. Nicholas Courtney William Nicholas Stone Courtney (16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011) was a British actor,"