The TelegraphObituaries Harold Bloom, colossus of American letters who defended the primacy of the traditional greats of western literature – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesHarold Bloom, who has died aged 89, was regarded by some as the English-speaking world’s greatest literary critic, and by others as a dyed-in-the-wool reactionary, the “Eeyore of academia”, with nothing
The TelegraphObituariesCharles Jencks, architecture writer and landscape designer who was inspired by his second wife, Maggie Keswick, to createThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesCharles Jencks, the architectural historian and critic who has died aged 80, defined Post-Modernism in architecture and promoted it in its early years before turning his back on the movement and condemning
The TelegraphObituariesJohn Jesse, decorative art dealer with a celebrity client list and an unerring eye for the rare, the beautiful and the strangeThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesJohn Jesse, who has died aged 83, was a decorative art dealer whose keen eye for the rare, the beautiful – and the downright bizarre – attracted millionaire collectors, including Andy Warhol, Barbra Streisand,
The TelegraphObituaries Yao Lee, singer known as the ‘Silver Voice’ who fused Chinese folk forms with jazz rhythms – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesYao Lee, also known as Yao Li, who has died aged 96, was a singer known as the “Silver Voice”, one of the “Seven Great Singing Stars of Shanghai”; hugely prolific, with a soft, lilting delivery, she is
The TelegraphObituaries Stephen Moore, actor cherished by fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for playing the glum android Marvin – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesStephen Moore, who has died aged 81, was one of Britain’s busiest stage actors with a career ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the West End and Broadway, but he made his biggest impact voicing
The TelegraphObituariesRobert Forster, character actor who staged a late career comeback and won an Oscar nomination for his role in Quentin Tarantino’sThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesRobert Forster, who has died aged 78, was a ubiquitous character actor given a late-career boost when Quentin Tarantino cast him as the bail bondsman Max Cherry in his 1997 crime caper Jackie Brown, based
The TelegraphObituaries Malcolm ‘Molly’ Duncan, tenor saxophonist and co-founder of the Scottish funk group the Average White Band – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesMalcolm ‘Molly’ Duncan,who has died aged 74, was a tenor saxophonist who co-founded the Average White Band, the funk outfit who scored a huge and enduring hit in 1974 with Pick up the Pieces. Largely apart
The TelegraphObituariesTony Mulhearn, key figure in the Militant Liverpool City council which challenged the Tories in the mid-1980s, but was moreThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesTony Mulhearn, who has died aged 80, was a key member, with Derek Hatton, of the Militant Tendency-dominated Labour regime in Liverpool in the mid-1980s whose lavish spending on socialist projects reduced
The TelegraphObituariesReg Watson, ‘Godfather of the modern soap’ who created ‘Crossroads’ and the smash hit Australian suburban drama ‘Neighbours’The Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesReg Watson, who has died aged 93, was a pioneering Australian-born television scriptwriter, director and producer once described as the “godfather of the modern soap”. He created and spent 10 years as
The TelegraphObituariesCaptain Tim Ritson, cavalry officer who rode the Queen Mother’s horse and had a close encounter with a monster salmon –The Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesCaptain Tim Ritson, who has died aged 84, brought inexhaustible enthusiasm to his various incarnations as cavalry officer, farmer, fisherman and horseman. Ritson belonged to that species of Englishman
The Telegraph Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesAlexei Leonov, the Russian cosmonaut, who has died aged 85, performed the first spacewalk in history when he left the Voskhod 2 capsule and drifted in the vacuum; but the return nearly proved fatal. Leonov’s
The TelegraphObituaries Liam Hanley, intensely poetic artist who also spent 25 years writing news reports for ITN – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesLiam Hanley, who has died aged 86, combined a lifetime of professional journalism that included some 25 years as a writer on ITN News with a no less distinguished career as a painter of semi-abstract,
The TelegraphObituariesRt Rev Roy Williamson, Bishop of Bradford and later of Southwark whose pastoral care was suffused with his increasingly sensibilitiesThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesThe Right Reverend Roy Williamson, who has died aged 86, was Bishop of Bradford for seven years before being translated to Southwark in 1991. In both dioceses he was warmly regarded both as a preacher
The TelegraphObituariesClora Brant, jazz ‘trumpetiste’, one of few women of her time to play professionally, who accompanied Billie Holiday andThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesClora Bryant, who has died aged 92, was a jazz trumpeter or, as she preferred, “trumpetiste”. For many years she was one of the few women anywhere to play the instrument professionally. The trumpet had
The TelegraphObituaries Major General Henry Woods, tank commander who won an MC in Germany and survived heavy fighting in Korea – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesMajor General Henry Woods, who has died aged 95, won an MC in Germany in the last phase of the campaign in Europe and subsequently saw action in the Korean War; after leaving the Army he devoted himself
The TelegraphObituariesCiaran Carson, Belfast-born poet deeply immersed in Irish music whose work approached the Troubles with ‘a kind of editedThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesCiaran Carson, who has died of cancer aged 70, was a poet whose work captured the sense of strangeness that comes from living in Belfast and the world. His digressive and erudite poems, as well as his
The TelegraphObituaries Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor best known in Britain for his role in ‘Simon Boccanegra’ at Covent Garden – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesMarcello Giordani, who has died aged 56 after suffering a heart attack, was an Italian tenor with a golden voice and a gorgeous high register. He came to the attention of British audiences in 1997 as Michael
The TelegraphObituariesFreddy Bannister, trailblazing rock promoter who set up concerts at Knebworth by bands such as the Rolling Stones and LedThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesFreddy Bannister, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of the modern music festival; he was the mastermind behind the Bath Festival of Blues in 1969, and inaugurated the regular festivals at Knebworth that
The TelegraphObituaries Sally Soames, Fleet Street photographer celebrated for her revealing black and white portraits of the famous – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesSally Soames, who has died aged 82, was a Fleet Street photographer who covered everything from the Yom Kippur war to National Front demonstrations, but her real strength was portraiture; she had the of
The TelegraphObituariesAnna Quayle, Tony-winning actress best known on film for her roles in ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’The Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesAnna Quayle, who has died aged 86, thrilled early-1960s theatre audiences in London and New York when she starred as Evie and the other women in Anthony Newley’s life in the musical Stop the World – I
The TelegraphObituariesEwan MacNaughton, affable ‘Telegraph’ journalist who as syndication manager spread the paper’s articles and pictures acrossThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesEwan MacNaughton, who has died aged 87, was an old-school newsman who extended the global reach of Telegraph journalism in the age before the internet. Telegraph scoops, and dispatches from its network
The TelegraphObituariesCaptain Barrie Dickinson, master of the stores ship ‘Stromness’, which played a perilous but vital role in the FalklandsThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesCaptain Barrie Dickinson, who has died aged 82, was master of the stores ship, RFA Stromness, when on the night of May 21-22 1982 she carried Royal Marines of 45 Commando into battle during the Falklands
The TelegraphObituaries Myles Burnyeat, classicist whose wit and imagination made him a leading scholar of Greek and Roman philosophy – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesMyles Burnyeat, who has died aged 80, was voted by his peers in a 2016 poll to be the greatest post-war scholar of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy in the English-speaking world. Schooled in the traditions
The TelegraphObituaries Ginger Baker, rock drummer with Cream known for his frenzied solos and hailed as one of the all-time greats – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesGinger Baker, who has died aged 80, was often credited with being the finest drummer in rock’n’roll, notably during his time with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in Cream; it was entirely in keeping with perverse
The TelegraphObituariesDiahann Carroll, trailblazing African-American actress who played a jetsetter in ‘Dynasty’ and went out with David FrostThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesDiahann Carroll, who has died aged 84, became the first African-American woman to star in her own television show, and later played the black singer Dominique Deveraux in the 1980s soap opera Dynasty.
The TelegraphObituaries John Haylett, editor of the ‘Morning Star’ who steered the faction-ridden communist paper out of ghetto politics – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesJohn Haylett, who has died aged 74, took over in 1995 as editor of Britain’s last communist newspaper, the Morning Star, amid a dispute of a Byzantine nature worthy of the Kremlin; he played a starring
The TelegraphObituaries Stan ‘Tiny’ Hill, formidable rugby player who was once dropped by the All Blacks for being ‘too physical’ – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesStan “Tiny” Hill, who has died aged 92, was one of the toughest All Blacks of his era, and was once dropped from the side for being “too physical” when he knocked out a South African opponent; when New
The TelegraphObituaries Hildegard Muntwyler, matriarch of the idiosyncratic Circus Monti – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesHildegard Muntwyler, who has died aged 83, was the quietly spoken matriarch of Switzerland’s Circus Monti, which celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2019, an enchanting and poetic alternative to the country’s
The TelegraphObituaries Joseph Wilson, US diplomat caught up in a scandal over false intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq – obituaryThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ObituariesJoseph Wilson, who has died of organ failure aged 69, was the retired US ambassador whose public criticism of President George W Bush, for “twisting” pre-war intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s alleged
