Daniel Day Lewis
Laurence Oliver died in 1989, just as Kenneth Branagh was launching the film of ‘Henry V’, which he wrote and directed and in which he starred. The coincidence made some jou
June Thorburn
Patricia June Thorburn-Smith (8 June 1931 – 4 November 1967) was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash. When she was 20 she left
Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh was a terrific actress who had some wonderful performance on film in the late 70’s and early 80’s. She was born New York in 1944. After attending Sarah L
Barbara Lawrence
Actress Barbara Lawrence, who played Gertie Cummings in the 1955 movie Oklahoma!, died in 2014. She was 83. Her daughter-in-law, Christy Nelson, said Friday that the actress di
Butterfly McQueen
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN’S OBITUARY IN “THE INDEPENDENT” IN 1995. Butterfly McQueen stated that the role of Prissy, Scarlett O’Hara’s hysterical servant girl in Gone with the
Pierce Brosnan
Tcm overview Thanks to his casual charm and self-deprecating comedic chops, Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan firmly established himself as a commanding presence with his first intro
Harve Presnell
The Hollywood musical has produced several powerful, handsome baritones, the best of them being Nelson Eddy, Howard Keel and Harve Presnell. Unfortunately, Presnell, who has died o
Kathleen Ryan
Kathleen Ryan was born in Dublin in 1922. Her parents owned the famous Monument Dairies in the city. Regarded as one of the beauties of her day, she was captured on port
Barbara Rush
Guardian obituary in 2024. In the 1950s, the elegant actor Barbara Rush, who has died aged 97, was extremely visible in films (she made 22 during the decade) and in fan magazines,
Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s wa