Eric portman
Eric Portman was born in 1901. He started work in 1922 as a salesman in the menswear department at the Marshall & Snelgrove department store in Leeds and acted in the amate
Vittorio Gassman
VITTORIO GASSMAN OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2000 Vittorio Gassman who has died aged 77, had a career on stage, screen and television which spanned five decades and won him p
Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy HillerThe Telegraph; May 16th 2003 Dame Wendy Hiller, who died on Wednesday aged 90, was an actress who was adored by Shaw and won an Oscar, but kept her distance
Hermione Baddley
The times obituary Mistress of revue who never lost talent for straight acting Hermione Baddeley, actress, who died on August 19 at the age of 79, began her career as a girl of pr
Arlene Whelan
. Auburn-haired Arleen Whelan was born in Salt Lake City, but spent her early childhood in Pueblo, Colorado, where she attended High School. Her father was an electrician, who, up
Brian Aherne
Brian Aherne was born in Kings Norton, England in 1902. He made his talkie debut in 1931 in the British film “Madame Guillotine”. By 1935 he was in Hollywood where he m
Patricia Hodge
TCM Overview: A blonde actress with fine-boned, patrician features and a cool stately presence, Patricia Hodge remains best known outside the British Isles as the straying wife
Doris Day
Doris Day, who has died aged 97, was a singer who came out of the big-band boom of the 1940s to become one of Hollywood’s top box-office stars throughout the 50s and 60s. She had
Skip Homeier
SKIP HOMEIER OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2017 In 1943, a 12-year-old boy actor stunned Broadway audiences with his portrayal of a German youth indoctrinated into nazism. Brou
David Hemmings
The Guardian” obituary by Tim Pulleine: David Hemmings, who has died suddenly aged 62 following a heart attack while filming Samantha’s Child in Romania, had a long and varied