http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ Obituaries of contributors to British film and television. en Sun, 19 May 2013 02:58:31 GMT vBulletin 120 http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/images/styles/brit/misc/rss.png http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115144-paul-shane-rip.html Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:31 GMT Paul Shane has passed away at the age of 72 according to the BBC news website.
He was probably best known for hs role as Ted Bovis in Croft & Perry's Hi-Di-Hi during the 1980's. Paul Shane also appeared in You Rang M'Lord, Oh Doctor Beeching! Coronation Street, Supergran and Woof.
A Widower he passed away in a hospice in his native Rotherham. ]]> Obituaries Tigon Man http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115144-paul-shane-rip.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115134-arnold-peters-rip.html Tue, 14 May 2013 18:58:16 GMT The Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/may/14/arnold-peters Nick The Guardian obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad.../arnold-peters

Nick ]]> Obituaries Nick Dando http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115134-arnold-peters-rip.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115127-aubrey-woods-r-i-p.html Tue, 14 May 2013 12:07:25 GMT British character and comedy actor at 85: ... British character and comedy actor at 85:

http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/...34#fbLoggedOut

Aubrey's filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940500/




Thanks to Weary for the image.


E. ]]> Obituaries Euryale http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115127-aubrey-woods-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115123-anne-valery.html Mon, 13 May 2013 16:05:22 GMT Anne Valery, actress in productions such as Kind Hearts & Coronets, has died.

As well as being sister-in-law to Hattie Jacques, she wrote 50% of Tenko.

Fascinating obit here ... http://tenkotv.com/2013/05/11/pushin...ery-1928-2013/ ]]> Obituaries chuffnobbler http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115123-anne-valery.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115118-david-harcourt.html Mon, 13 May 2013 08:50:44 GMT Sad news for those in the camera department who knew camera operator David Harcourt. Below is the authorised biography by Quentin Falk, released by... Sad news for those in the camera department who knew camera operator David Harcourt. Below is the authorised biography by Quentin Falk, released by the Guild of British Camera technicians this weekend:

David Harcourt 1915-2013

During his long and prolific career as a cameraman, David Harcourt, who has died aged 97, worked on many great British films including Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, A Night to Remember, Whistle Down the Wind, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Women in Love and The Day of the Jackal.

For more than 40 years, until he retired in 1980 aged 65, Harcourt was a camera operator, his eye glued to the viewfinder, the main conduit between the actors and the director on location and studio sets lit by the Director of Photography. Among the great DoPs for whom he operated were Jack Cox, Otto Heller, Christopher Challis. Geoffrey Unsworth and Billy Williams.

Born into show business – his father, James Harcourt, and mother, known professionally as Isadora Keith, were both busy actors – Harcourt Jr. began in the industry soon after leaving school working in the camera department at Borehamwood’s BIP Studios, known as “The Porridge Factory” because of its Scots owner, John Maxwell.

“It was a wonderful atmosphere,” he once recalled,”all go, lots of noise and lights. But when I came home I told my father that all I seemed to do all day was make tea for the crew. ‘That’s all right, my boy’, he replied, ‘You make tea better than anybody else and you’ll get on fine.’”

The war proved to be Harcourt’s big “break”. In the Army Kinematograph Service (AKS), he operated on various instruction films and even did some lighting. So when he finally returned to civvy street he was able to resume his career higher up the traditional camera “ladder”.

His Coldest memory was on 1958’s A Night to Remember: “They’d built part of the port side of the Titanic 30-40 feet up out on the lot at Pinewood. It’s fairly high up there already and there always seemed to me to be an East wind whipping in. It was mostly night shooting and a lot of it was done from a crane even higher up. I was soon wearing a special padded suit with newspaper also wrapped round inside.”

The most Serendipitous? “There’s a scene in 1976’s The Voyage of the Damned [about a shipload of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany] where they show the passengers Invitation to the Waltz on which I’d worked at BIP as an assistant 40 years earlier.”

Harcourt’s most Confrontational moment was in Durango, New Mexico where he briefly took over as Director of Photography on the 1973 Western, Kid Blue, from Billy Williams who was suffering with a bad back.

They were shooting a table scene with about ten actors including the star Dennis Hopper and the noise level was deafening. Harcourt recalled: “I just lost my cool, and yelled, ‘Shut up, for Christ’s sake!’ Hopper then chipped in with, ‘There’s a double shadow across that face.’ I quickly replied with, ‘You do your job, and I’ll do mine’. It was a very tense moment. The next day was a night shoot and Hopper came up, hugged me and said, ‘I shouldn’t have done what I did’. That did him real credit.”

It was 30 years earlier, in 1942, that Harcourt got his one and, in the event only, chance to work with his father. Harcourt Sr was playing the local pie man to parliamentarians in The Young Mr Pitt, directed by Carol Reed, with his son behind the camera as focus puller under the supervision of DoP, Freddie Young. To add to the pressure, his daughter Jo was also working on the film as Continuity Girl (or Script Adviser, as it’s denoted today).

“Dad was extra nervous,” he recalled, “ because Jo and I were on the set, too. He wasn’t concentrating on the cue for the next line and I thought he might seize up altogether. His crucial line was ‘Pies are to Mr Pitt what frogs are to Monsieur Bonaparte’. But could he get it out? No. It just went on and on. Poor Jo had to leave the set and I only stayed because I had to, being on the camera crew. In fact, everyone was very sweet about it, especially Carol Reed.”

Harcourt leaves Margot, to whom he was married 67 years, and three children - daughter Michelle, and sons Christopher and Jamie, who followed his father into the film industry. His extended family includes many grandchildren and great grandchildren, as well as a younger sister, Barbara. ]]> Obituaries Simon Mills http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115118-david-harcourt.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115108-john-cain-rip.html Fri, 10 May 2013 17:02:52 GMT The Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/apr/28/john-cain-obituary Nick The Guardian obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...-cain-obituary

Nick ]]> Obituaries Nick Dando http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115108-john-cain-rip.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115090-bryan-forbes-r-i-p-1926-2013-a.html Wed, 08 May 2013 21:06:55 GMT Bryan Forbes (1926-2013). The British Film Director and Actor has sadly died. His films as Director,included King Rat,The Stepford Wives,Whistle Down... Bryan Forbes (1926-2013). The British Film Director and Actor has sadly died. His films as Director,included King Rat,The Stepford Wives,Whistle Down the Wind and International Velvet. He also acted in films such as The Colditz story.. ]]> Obituaries 4EverEden http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115090-bryan-forbes-r-i-p-1926-2013-a.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115082-ray-harryhausen-visual-effects-master-dies-aged-92-a.html Tue, 07 May 2013 18:38:29 GMT Sad news with the passing of Ray Harryhausen at the age of 92. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567 Sad news with the passing of Ray Harryhausen at the age of 92.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567

]]> Obituaries windthorpe http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115082-ray-harryhausen-visual-effects-master-dies-aged-92-a.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115064-norman-jones-r-i-p.html Sun, 05 May 2013 07:23:06 GMT I was sorry to read of the death of actor Norman Jones on 23rd April. He was born in Shropshire and lived there in his later years. I met him very... I was sorry to read of the death of actor Norman Jones on 23rd April. He was born in Shropshire and lived there in his later years. I met him very briefly when I worked in the area in the 1990s.

http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/p30763-norman-jones/

Norman's filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428949/



Thanks as ever to Weary for the image.


E. ]]> Obituaries Euryale http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115064-norman-jones-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115059-sean-caffrey-r-i-p.html Sat, 04 May 2013 15:32:14 GMT The Northern Ireland born actor has died at 73: ... The Northern Ireland born actor has died at 73:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-29229930.html

Sean's filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128461/




Thanks to Weary for the image.


E. ]]> Obituaries Euryale http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115059-sean-caffrey-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115050-john-wiles-merton-park-dop-r-i-p.html Fri, 03 May 2013 08:25:33 GMT John Wiles, who has died aged 88, was a film cameraman on many black-and-white crime “shorts” that became a staple of British cinema in the 1950s. ... John Wiles, who has died aged 88, was a film cameraman on many black-and-white crime “shorts” that became a staple of British cinema in the 1950s.



Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...ohn-Wiles.html ]]> Obituaries julian_craster http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/115050-john-wiles-merton-park-dop-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114986-nosher-powell-r-i-p.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:10:13 GMT The British actor and stuntman has died:

http://nosherpowell.awardspace.co.uk/

Nosher's filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694118/


E. ]]> Obituaries Euryale http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114986-nosher-powell-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114975-patrick-garland-r-i-p.html Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:05:08 GMT The British actor and director has died:

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news...dies-1-5021848

Patrick's filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307559/


E. ]]> Obituaries Euryale http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114975-patrick-garland-r-i-p.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114966-richard-leparmentier-1946-2013-a.html Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:55:26 GMT US born actor who played Admiral Motti in Star Wars and appeared in Rollerball, Stardust, the Amicus production The People That Time Forgot. Ken... US born actor who played Admiral Motti in Star Wars and appeared in Rollerball, Stardust, the Amicus production The People That Time Forgot. Ken Russel's Valentino and the Bond film Octopussy died on April 15th.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...6-8576191.html ]]> Obituaries JamesM http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114966-richard-leparmentier-1946-2013-a.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114964-yemi-ajibade-rip.html Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:02:15 GMT The Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/apr/18/yemi-ajibade-obituary Nick The Guardian obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...ibade-obituary

Nick ]]> Obituaries Nick Dando http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/obituaries/114964-yemi-ajibade-rip.html