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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 ...

+ 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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