Frank Grimes
Frank Grimes (born 1947) is an Irish stage and screen actor. Grimes was born in Dublin. He achieved his first major success as the young Brendan Behan in the 1967 stage adaptat
Michael Sarrazin
The guardian obituary in 2011. The Canadian-born actor Michael Sarrazin, who has died of cancer aged 70, was so visible in Hollywood movies from 1967 to 1977 that one may wonder wh
Doreen Keogh
The telegraph obituary in 2018. Doreen Keogh, the actress, who has died aged 91, was the original Coronation Street barmaid. Her character, Concepta Riley, an excitable Irishwoman,
Jane Wyatt
JANE WYATT OBITUARY IN “THE INDEPENDENT” IN 2006. Jane Wyatt was a warm loving presence in many films and television roles from the early 1930’s. She was born in 1910 in
Gail Russell
Gail Russell was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 21, 1924. She remained in the Windy City, going to school until her parents moved to California when she was 14. She was an
dolores del Rio
Dolores Del Rio was the one of the first Mexican movie stars with international appeal and who had meteoric career in 1920s/1930s Hollywood. Del Rio came from an aristocratic famil
Joan Blackman
Joan Blackman (born May 17, 1938, San Francisco, California) is an American former actress.. Blackman appeared in her first motion picture, Good Day for a Hanging, in 1959. Sh
Joan O’Brien
The independent obituary in may 2025 Joan O’Brien, the actor who starred in a string of film and television hits throughout the 1950s and 1960s, has died. She was 89. O’Brien w
Shirley Anne Field
Guardian appreciation by peter bradshaw in 2023. Shirley Anne Field had the kind of ingenue English-rose freshness and beauty that the British cinema loved in the 50s and 60s – i
George Maharis
Tall, dark and handsome, not to mention a charismatic rebel of 1960s Hollywood, actor George Maharis (surname originally Maharias) was born in 1928 in Astoria, New York, one of sev