Van Johnson
Van Johnson was born in 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island. He started acting on Broadway in 1935. He was Gene Kelly’s understudy in the Broadway musical “Pal Joey”. He
Alan Bates
Alan Bates THE INDEPENDENT OBITUARY IN 2003. Alan Bates was a brilliant versatile actor who made many fine films in both Britain and the U.S. He started his career on film with
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was born in 1933 in Queensland, Australia. Her parents were both distinguished medical doctors. She trained for the theatre in New York but made her acting ca
Nancy Davis
Ronald Bergan writes: By far the best role Nancy Reagan ever had was as US first lady. However, as Nancy Davis, her acting career was by no means ignominious. She appeared in seve
Nancy Guild
Tom Vallance’s obituary in “The Independent”: THE IMPACT of Lauren Bacall on the cinema of the Forties was such that several young actresses were styled by rival studios to a
Gene Tierney
“Gene Tierney was as sleek and as beautiful as a lynx – a shade warmer perhaps, but nowhere near as agile. Once she emerged from the miscasting which almost wrecked her care
Una O’Connor
UNa O’CONNOR (WIKIPEDIA) Born to a Catholic nationalist family in Belfast, Ireland. Although her mother died when she was two, her father was a landowner farmer, insuring that t
Richard Todd
RICHARD TODD OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2009. Richard Todd, who has died of cancer aged 90, will be best remembered for the films in which he played a wide assortment of cle
Kenneth Haigh
KENNETH HAIGH OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2018. The actor Kenneth Haigh, who has died aged 86, was the original Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at th
Kenneth More
Quote from David Shipman in “The Great Movie Stars – The International Years” (1972): “Kenneth More was THE big British star of the 50’s. e might be claimed to be the