Broadcaster Victor Lewis-Smith, who once tricked Princess Diana into thinking she was chatting...
In Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes, Bernard Atha played a harsh school careers officer who dismissed...
Bill Treacher was the first actor cast in the BBC's flagship new soap opera EastEnders in 1985...
A working-class boy who made his name playing toffs, a natural optimist scarred by tragedy and a...
Peter de Savary's business career defined the boom and bust era of the 1980s and 1990s, making...
A founding father of rock 'n' roll, Jerry Lee Lewis was an outrageous performer with endless...
Eamonn McCabe's flair for visual storytelling made him one of Fleet Street's finest photographers.
Distinguished pilot Air Vice-Marshal "Larry" Lamb held a wide range of accolades, including...
Like his ordinary but tenacious protagonist DCI Alan Banks, the best-selling crime writer Peter...
An actress turned war correspondent, Hungarian-born Anna Gyarmathy kept a dignified silence...
Louise Fletcher won a best leading actress Oscar for her role as Mildred Ratched in One Flew...
Jean-Luc Godard was a pioneer of the French New Wave, who created evocative and experimental...
THE literary world was in mourning yesterday after the death of Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary...
THE Earl of Home was the late Queen's banker for many years and met her on numerous occasions to...
ACTRESS Virginia Patton played opposite James Stewart as George Bailey's sister-in-law Ruth in...
CONVENT-educated Pauline Stroud shot to stardom after playing the lead female role in Lady...
DAVID Shaw was MP for Dover for 10 years and became one of the most controversial figures in the...
RUSSIAN President Mikhail Gorbachev brought an end to the Cold War but the high price of...
A SENSE of adventure, a refined sense of taste and a determination to get her facts right made...
SIR Ralph Halpern was the leading clothing retailer of his time who saved the Burton Group and...
ANNE Heche transitioned from teen soap star to Hollywood leading lady in the late Nineties but...
HORSE Whisperer writer Nicholas Evans has died suddenly after a heart attack. He was 72. His...
MOTOWN icon Lamont Dozier, who helped write 14 US chart-toppers and four that hit No 1 in the...
FORMER BBC journalist Ronald Allison was the Queen's press secretary for four years until 1978...
NICHELLE Nichols transformed how black women were portrayed on television as the capable and...
RALLY driver Paddy Hopkirk put the feisty Mini Cooper on the world map when he won the 1964...
IVANA Trump helped her second husband Donald Trump build up a £2billion property fortune which...
HOLLYWOOD hardman James Caan became an international star when he played mobster Sonny Corleone...
VETERAN broadcaster Michael Barratt presented BBC current affairs show Nationwide for eight...
RACING driver Alain de Cadenet moved seamlessly from track to TV, aided by his charm and...
CANADIAN-born Zimmerman was the voice for Alan Tracy, the youngest rescuer in sci-fi puppet...
DAME Deborah James crammed more into the final weeks of her life than many manage in a lifetime....
AS A model and the wife of Tramp nightclub boss Johnny Gold, Jan de Souza became a potent symbol...
CLOTHES designer John Bates enjoyed a glittering career and was credited by some within the...
BOB Blizzard became the first Labour MP for Waveney, Suffolk, in 38 years when he was elected in...
IT WAS testament to Emmerdale star Andy Devine's acting ability that he charmed audiences...
ACCLAIMED artist Dame Paula Rego created arresting and unsettling works often rooted in folk...
RAY LIOTTA'S piercing blue-eyed stare and brooding intensity often saw him cast as gangsters or...
DERVLA Murphy cycled from Dublin to Delhi to find the right material for her first travel book,...
CHARIOTS of Fire composer Vangelis has died aged 79 after a career full of movie successes that...
VIRTUALLY all of the heartfelt tributes to Kay Mellor, who has died just a few days after her...
FORMER communist Leonid Kravchuk forsook his political allegiances for personal ambition when he...
A BRILLIANT photojournalist who captured the brutality of the Mafia in Sicily, Letizia Battaglia...
WITH his public school accent and confidence, actor Jeremy Child was often the first name...
TINA May was one of Britain's greatest jazz singers with a unique warmth in her voice which may...
THE FOUR marriages in Elizabeth Harris Aitken's life were more talked about than her acting...
SOAP actress Jennifer Wilson starred in Coronation Street, Casualty and Doctors but was best...
WHEN Mimi Reinhard took a shorthand course to help her take notes for her language degree, she...
HAD Jack Higgins heeded the advice of his agent to forgo writing about a plot to kill Winston...
Tom Parker's first brush with fame on The X Factor, aged 16, was short and brutal. The...
IN DOT COTTON, EastEnders' church-going, chain-smoking Queen of the launderette, June Brown...
TAYLOR Hawkins played the drums exactly how he lived his life - at full pelt and with vigour....
A-LIST celebrities paid tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales's portrait photographer Patrick...
MARY Coombs was the first woman to write programmes for the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO), the...
SHE would have hated the description but Veronica Carlson was the queen of the "scream...
IN THE US comedy M*A*S*H, Sally Kellerman played head nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan,...
OSCAR-WINNER William Hurt has died a week before his 72nd birthday, his family said last night.