A list of notable people who have died recently including the “French bombshell”, Mills and Boon’s most prolific author and the Irish actor David Kelly whom you might remember from Waking Ned Devine and other classics.
Our catalogue will help you revisit or get to know the work of all these people.
- Gilbert Adair, 1944-2011
Critic, screenwriter and fervent Francophile who complained that ‘everyone is now a film buff’ - Kenneth R. Andrews, 1921-2012
Historian who thought Drake more corsair than hero, but reckoned privateering central to English success - Eve Arnold, 1913-2012
Photographer who immortalised Marilyn Monroe but whose subjects transcended mere celebrity - Martin Barriball, 1929-2012
Well known NZ photographer - Maurice Casey, 1923-2012
Former Court of Appeal judge Emmanuel Cooper, 1938-2012
Distinguished and distinctive British potter whose work mixed purity of form with often luminous colour- Denise Darcel, 1924-2011
Actress known as the ‘French Bombshell’ who played the vamp in a series of post-war Hollywood films - M.R.D. Foot, 1919-2012
Historian who braved the minefield of official secrets to write the authorised account of SOE - John Gage, 1938-2012
Art historian and authority on Turner who transformed the understanding of colour in Western painting - Reginald Hill, 1936-2012
Author of cerebral and labyrinthine crime novels best known for his series about Dalziel and Pascoe - Penny Jordan, 1946-2011
Mills & Boon’s most prolific novelist who churned out the romances in her socks - David Kelly, 1929-2012
Irish stage and screen actor Charla Krupp, 1953-2012
Popular author-commentator- James Riordan, 1936-2012
Author of children’s books and formerly a translator in Russia - Josef Škvorecky
Czech writer who chose exile in Canada, from where he published the dissident authors of his homeland - Nicol Williamson, 1938-2011
Actor whose genius was fettered by a prickly temperament that barred his path to greatness - Jeffrey Zaslow, 1958-2012
American author and journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street journal