Obituaries
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Lewis Gilbert obituary: director who entertained Britain for decades
Kate Stables on a versatile, modest director whose career spanned 60 years of British cinema, and some of its biggest hits – from a run of patriotic war films to Alfie and James Bond in the 1960s and 70s, and on to Willy Russell’s sharp female-led dramas in the 80s.
Friday 2 March 2018 -
David Rose obituary: influential producer and founding father of Film4
The pioneering TV and film executive was admired for his independence of mind and his ‘nose for a script’, remembers Philip Kemp.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
Om Puri obituary: India’s face of the world
From Indian art films to Bollywood, British cinema and Hollywood, Om Puri straddled it all, says Rachel Dwyer.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
From the Magazine
Peggy Cummins obituary: petite but powerful star
Josephine Botting remembers the Irish actress who played tough cookies in crime movies and gentle comedies, and is best remembered as a gun-toting femme fatale in the film noir Gun Crazy.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
From the Magazine
Károly Makk obituary: Hungarian director of subtle, incisive films
Distinguished filmmaker who created memorable stories about life under a totalitarian regime, which were shown around the world, writes Michael Brooke.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2017
Our roll call of film figures who passed away in 2017, compiled by Bob Mastrangelo, with a graphic evocation of cinema’s departed by Ehsan Khoshbakht and Naiel Ibarrola.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
From the Magazine
Mary Tyler Moore obituary: iconic TV star and producer
Kate Stables remembers the actress who became America’s small-screen sweetheart via her self-titled show, playing a smart, perky journalist.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
Anne Wiazemsky obituary: the woman who mused back
An on-screen inspiration to both Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard as a young woman, Anne Wiazemsky latterly became a writer who revisited her encounters with both, writes David Thompson.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
From the Magazine
Sam Shepard obituary: cinema’s existential cowboy
The writer and actor made an indelible contribution to cinema, from his classic screenplays including Paris, Texas and Zabriskie Point, to his unforgettably laconic performances for Terrence Malick and Philip Kaufman, writes Tom Charity.
Wednesday 24 January 2018 -
From the Magazine
Miguel Ferrer obituary: an authority figure with a comic-book edge
From Robocop and Twin Peak onwards, the son of a Hollywood power couple brought delicious wit to his hardball law-and-order characters, says Nick Bradshaw.
Wednesday 24 January 2018
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