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Terry Fincher (1931-2008)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
Terence Edgar 'Terry' Fincher, photographer, born July 8 1931; died
October 6 2008. During the 1950s and 60s the photographer Terry
Fincher, who has died aged 77 of a liver tumour, covered every major
war and trouble spot around the world. He did five tours of Vietnam
and his pictures regularly fetured in the Dail ...
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+ Nancy Bevan
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
Nancy Bevan, who has died aged 95, was, by any account, a well-
connected woman. Her stories of early life at the top table gave an
intended moral commentary on social inequality and the absurdities of
the rich and powerful, ranging from a dinner at the Cunards, where a
footman provided newspaper so the hostess's ...
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Peter Copley (1915-2008)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:57:37 -0700 (PDT)
Peter Copley, actor, born May 20 1915; died October 7 2008.
He was in many movies, including a role as the jeweller alongside the
Beatles in Help! (1965), and worked with some of the great directors.
Only four years ago, he was in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist and
returned from Poland (where it was shot) with stor ...
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Jim Eyre (c1925-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:29 -0700 (PDT)
The veteran Lancastrian Jim Eyre, who has died aged 83, was a legend
in the world of cave exploration. After the second world war he began
what became about 50 years of continuous worldwide exploration of
limestone caves, becoming internationally respected. He was a
character, an organiser, an initiative taker and ...
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Peter Vansittart, OBE (1920-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:43:08 -0700 (PDT)
Peter Vansittart, who died 4 Oct 2008, aged 88, was among the most
prolific writers of historical fiction, with 15 such novels to his
credit; but while he attracted much critical acclaim his books
achieved only modest commercial success, none selling more than 3,000
copies.
"My novels have been appreciated, if ...
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Eileen Herlie (1919-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
Eileen Herlie, who died on October 8 2008 aged 89, had a distinguished
stage career on both sides of the Atlantic before devoting her later
years to an American soap opera. In the West End during the 1940s and
1950s she won a reputation in the classics; in North America during
the following two decades her highly- ...
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Nadia Nerina (1927-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
Nadia Nerina , who died 6 October, 2008, in France aged 80, was a
brilliant leading ballerina with the Royal Ballet, whose bravura
brought her admiration in Russia and was immortalised in Frederick
Ashton?s masterpiece La Fille mal gard¨¦e. Renowned as the best
technician at Covent Garden in the 1950s and 1960s, sh ...
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Reverend Leslie Hardman (1913-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
The Reverend Leslie Hardman, who died 6 Oct, 2008, aged 95, entered
Belsen concentration camp after its liberation in his role as a
British Army chaplain; himself Jewish, he was later to describe the
terrible scenes which he witnessed in a moving book. Bergen-Belsen, or
Belsen, was in Lower Saxony, south-west of t ...
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Justin Dukes (1941-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:35:11 -0700 (PDT)
Justin Dukes, who died on October 1 2008, aged 66, was joint managing
director of the Financial Times Group and the founding managing
director and deputy chief executive of Channel 4, where, with the
chief executive Jeremy Isaacs, he spearheaded a transformation in the
face of British television. Dukes was head-hu ...
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Bob Friend (1938-2008)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:33:26 -0700 (PDT)
Bob Friend, who died of cancer on October 8 2008 aged 70, became one
of the most familiar faces on television as an anchor-man on Sky News.
Having enjoyed a successful 20-year career with the BBC, Friend joined
Sky in February 1989 when the broadcasting station was in its infancy
? he would later claim that, in th ...
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