Bibliogryphon 8,662 Posted July 3, 2022 6 hours ago, YoungWillz said: @Bibliogryphon Joker a couple of years ago, why drop him? http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_B.html#brookp I apply the 50% rule and I give priority to unique picks. I probably have him somewhere else 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted September 7, 2022 Sybil Mitchell, who acted under the name Sybil Ewbank, daughter of Eileen Thorndike and niece of Dame Sybil Thorndike, obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/sep/07/sybil-mitchell-obituary 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted September 9, 2022 Scottish playwright Alan Wilkins reportedly dead: https://www.traverse.co.uk/news/a-tribute-to-alan-wilkins Carthage Must Be Destroyed is an excellent piece of stage writing. According to this post he died on 7 September, aged 52/53: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted October 29, 2022 Report of the death of British theatre director and spiritualist James Roose-Evans, aged 94, probably best known for adapting 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and going on to direct it, a DDP pick for @machotrouts: 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted November 1, 2022 On 29/10/2022 at 12:45, YoungWillz said: Report of the death of British theatre director and spiritualist James Roose-Evans, aged 94, probably best known for adapting 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and going on to direct it, a DDP pick for @machotrouts: James Roose-Evans QO for the DDP @gcreptile: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/11/01/james-roose-evans-founder-hampstead-theatre-whose-work-infused/ 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted November 4, 2022 The above is a picture of some Windmill Theatre girls running along the beach (yes a beach!) near to Tower Bridge at the side of the Thames in 1947. Second from the right is Toni Leighton. Here is her death notice as she has died aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260503/leighton The beach isn't there anymore. Story here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5983699/When-life-beach-Amazing-pictures-carefree-scenes-forgotten-sand-middle-London.html 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,087 Posted January 5, 2023 Times death notice for Roger Jenkins (wiki), British theatre and television director. Died on 21 December 2022, aged 91. TV credits include Howards' Way, Coronation Street, The Avengers, Poldark and Z Cars. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,236 Posted February 4, 2023 Jürgen Flimm, A-list german stage director dies at 81: https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/regisseur-flimm-gestorben-101.html He once was a young radical who got his start at Cologne's university theatre. They're very proud of him there. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted March 14, 2023 Keith Johnstone, was a British and Canadian pioneer of improvisational theatre, He has died aged 90. Obit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted March 26, 2023 Janine Shalom - PR at many west end theatres has died aged 63. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted March 31, 2023 Theatre director Michael Rudman has died aged 84, two years after surviving covid. Won a Tony for his revival of Death of a Salesman. Hes also the partner (and ex-husband - its complicated) of Felicity Kendal. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted April 19, 2023 John Baraldi, American who turned up in Scotland in the mid to late 1970s to become a director of both the Glasgow Youth Theatre and Cumbernauld Youth Theatre which turned out a generation of Scottish actors who turned up in various projects starting with the Bill Forsyth films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl, reportedly dead: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 423 Posted April 24, 2023 On 19/04/2023 at 10:56, YoungWillz said: John Baraldi, American who turned up in Scotland in the mid to late 1970s to become a director of both the Glasgow Youth Theatre and Cumbernauld Youth Theatre which turned out a generation of Scottish actors who turned up in various projects starting with the Bill Forsyth films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl, reportedly dead: Can't seem to find any news source that confirms John Baraldi's death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted April 24, 2023 4 hours ago, Steve said: Can't seem to find any news source that confirms John Baraldi's death. When you find one, let us know. Died in Malta. Plenty of tributes out there from Cumbernauld Theatre, E15 Acting School and Riverside Studios. Given his level of fame and the major deaths over the weekend, a mere 5 days is a drop in the ocean. Maybe give bods like this a couple of months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted May 2, 2023 British playwright Adam Brace (IMDB), Associate Director at the Soho Theatre, London, who wrote for The Mash Report and Late Night Mash for television, reportedly dead aged 42/43: His play Stovepipe, about corporate soldiers, was highly critically acclaimed. Edit: Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/adam-brace-death-cause-soho-theatre-b2330792.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted July 20, 2023 Stage Obit for Richard Mills, who rose from being a humble stage electrician to best buddies with Bernard Delfont and a board member of the National Theatre: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/richard-mills-prolific-presence-in-british-theatre-whose-50-year-career-took-him-from-stage-management-to-the-top-job-at-delfont-mackintosh-theatres Just spent a good hour and a half trawling his website which has incredible stories from his early days especially on Eric Morecambe, George Cole, Peter Sellers, etc etc. Worth a read: http://www.richardmmills.com/ Harry Secombe doing one of his landladies across the kitchen table - lawdy! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted August 4, 2023 Sir Michael Boyd, former Glasgow Tron Theatre and RSC artistic director, reportedly dead from cancer: https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/announcing-the-death-of-michael-boyd/ 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted September 6, 2023 Stage obit (registration required) of playwright Tom Kempinski, of Duet for One fame (and former Mr. Frances de la Tour), who died 2nd August, aged 85. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted October 6, 2023 Well worth reading this death notice for former Tiller Girl Mary Barsh who has died aged 101: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/barsh-notices_53797 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,548 Posted October 29, 2023 Mentioned many times here American theatrical critic Robert Brustein (Wiki) dead at 96 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,103 Posted November 11, 2023 Death notice for Adele Anggard (nee Alers Hankey), opera, ballet and theatre costume designer, aged 90: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/-ngg-rd-notices_54314 A daughter of Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey. She worked on Peter Brook's film version of King Lear. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029401/ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,236 Posted December 30, 2023 Vinnie Burrows, once called the Queen of Black Theatre, also an activist, dead at 99: https://www.playbill.com/article/actor-and-activist-vinie-burrows-dies-at-99 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted January 20 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25401597/martin-mccallum-dead-theatre-producer-cats-les-miserables/ LEGENDARY theatre producer Martin McCallum has died aged 73. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,087 Posted January 20 38 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25401597/martin-mccallum-dead-theatre-producer-cats-les-miserables/ LEGENDARY theatre producer Martin McCallum has died aged 73. HYPERBOLE to get clicks my dear Crem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted January 20 1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said: HYPERBOLE to get clicks my dear Crem. Sorry. I just wasn’t able to edit the sentence without it turning into a hyperlink. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
