Fiona Freedland obituary
Fiona Freedland, my wife, who has died of cancer aged 50, was a woman of extraordinary wisdom, warmth and humour.Her professional background was as a medical negligence lawyer, and from 2002 she was...
View ArticleKen Griffiths obituary
Photographer noted for his advertising and newspaper images, and acclaimed as a portraitistKen Griffiths, who has died aged 69 of motor neurone disease, was a photojournalist, landscape photographer,...
View ArticleSir David Mitchell obituary
Conservative minister and wine merchant once described as the 'tonic to Thatcher's gin'The former Conservative minister Sir David Mitchell, who has died aged 86, played a small but important part in...
View ArticleAlan Reynolds obituary
Artist who abandoned figuration and popularity in favour of a more austere abstract visionIn 1957, Alan Reynolds dedicated a large gouache called Sunset, Kent to the critic Robert Melville and his...
View ArticleJimi Jamison obituary
Powerful lead singer with the US rock band SurvivorJimi Jamison, who has died aged 63 of a heart attack, was the lead singer of the US rock band Survivor from 1984 to 1988, again from 2000 to 2006, and...
View ArticleTom Maitland obituary
My friend and colleague Tom Maitland, who has died of oesophageal cancer aged 64, was a co-founder and editor of the Hastings & St Leonards News, one of the country's first free local newspapers, a...
View ArticleGilly Arthur obituary
My sister-in-law Gilly Arthur, who has died aged 47 of a brain tumour, was an epidemiologist, researcher and expert in HIV and genitourinary medicine. Her work in Kenya on voluntary counselling and...
View ArticlePeter Griffin obituary
Generations of children benefited from my friend Peter Griffin's dedication to education. His first teaching post, in 1947, was at Herbert Thompson junior school in Ely, one of the most socially...
View ArticleAndrew McLaglen obituary
Film director whose collaboration with John Wayne extended the life of the westernThree long shadows lay heavily across the career of the film director Andrew McLaglen, who has died aged 94: those of...
View ArticleJoan Rivers: a life in pictures
The pioneering entertainer and comedian has died aged 81. Rivers got her big break with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1965 and was a TV mainstay from then onJoan Rivers...
View ArticleJoan Rivers: constantly in the limelight and pursued by controversy
The comedian and show host once apologised for an incident concluding in her being taken off air: 'I'm sorry I fucking swore'The quintessential acerbic Noo Yawker, the comedian Joan Rivers, who has...
View ArticleSir Philip Dowson obituary
Undogmatic architect who created buildings that were both modern and responsive to local tradition"There is indeed a crisis in architecture," acknowledged Philip Dowson, who has died at the age of 90,...
View ArticleLetter: How Sandy Wilson influenced the Temperance Seven
Watching The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson countless times as a young man never failed to fill me with delight and a longing for an age I had never known; it influenced a lot of my work with the band the...
View ArticleAppreciation: Joan Rivers, 1933-2014
Comedian and writer Arabella Weir remembers the trailblazing American comic and salutes her craft and personal strengthIt's unusual to find a female comic as completely fearless as Joan Rivers. The...
View ArticleJulie Myerson on Sandy Wilson: 'I was 11 when, obsessed with The Boy Friend,...
I was 11 when, having become obsessed with Ken Russell's 1971 film of The Boy Friend, I got the book out of the Nottingham library and directed my sisters and some other kids from the village in our...
View ArticleLetters: Michael Kustow's thinking was bold, his ambition high
Jeremy Isaacs writes: Channel 4 was charged, by Act of Parliament, with providing a "distinctive" service; as its commissioning editor for the arts, Michael Kustow did much to make that promise good....
View ArticleCharles Bowden obituary
Journalist and author who wrote about the blighted borderlands between the US and Mexico, cursed with drug wars and povertyCharles Bowden, who has died aged 69, was a writer and journalist, a leading...
View ArticlePeter de la Cour obituary
Peter de la Cour, who has taken his own life aged 71, was co-founder, with Peter Read, of the Redfield Community in north Buckinghamshire. Peter moved to Redfield, near the town of Winslow, then a...
View ArticleThe Right Rev Donald Arden obituary
My husband, Donald Arden, who has died aged 98, never gave up working for justice and peace. He was ordained in London in 1939 and spent 38 years in Africa as priest, bishop and archbishop.He was born...
View ArticleGottfried John obituary
German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's filmsIt was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low...
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