Obituaries and tributes
2012
Harry Fowler, 1926-2012
Chirpy cockney character actor, from Hue and Cry to MBE
2011
Obituaries 2011
Sight & Sound’s comprehensive survey of the actors, directors, writers, producers and technicians who died during the course of 2011
The Gilbert Adair files
Michael Brooke introduces our tribute trove of reviews, features, columns and wind-ups written by the late Adair (1944-2011) for S&S and our former sister publication the Monthly Film Bulletin
Bert Schneider, 1933-2011
Producer of a string of films that came to define the New Hollywood era
Dev Anand, 1923-2011
Bollywood superstar who also found success as a producer-writer-director
Zdenek Miler, 1921-2011
Czech animator whose many cartoons showcasing the Mole were distributed worldwide
Sue Mengers, 1932-2011
Powerful Hollywood talent agent of the 1970s
Raúl Ruiz, 1941-2011
Film director and polymath
Yekaterina Golubeva, 1966-2011
Actress in in Pola X, Twentynine Palms and two films for Claire Denis
B.D. Garga, 1924-2011
Documentary maker, film historian and benefactor of world cinema
Michael Gough, 1916-2011
Character actor known for his diverse roles in horror and Derek Jarman films, and as Alfred the butler in four Batman movies
Jane Russell, 1921-2011
Famed Hollywood actress and sex symbol who proved skilled at comedy
Annie Girardot, 1931-2011
French actress, emblem of the 1970s ‘new woman’ and star of varying fortunes
John Barry, 1933-2011
One of the major film composers, most famous for the Bond films
Iván: Pedro Almodóvar on Iván Zulueta
An English translation of Almodóvar’s moving 2009 eulogy to his just-deceased friend Zulueta, whose 1979 film Arrebato (Rapture) is one of the most influential cult classics of Spanish cinema
Peter Yates, 1929-2011
Transatlantic genre specialist, from Summer Holiday to Bullitt and The Friends of Eddie Coyle
2010
Obituaries 2010
Sight & Sound’s comprehensive survey of the actors, directors, writers, producers and technicians who died during the course of 2010
Clive Donner, 1926-2010
Stylish director who shifted from Britain’s New Wave to the Swinging 60s
Jean Simmons, 1929-2010
Actress
Leslie Nielsen, 1926-2010
Earnest leading man (Forbidden Planet) who was reborn as an ace comic actor in the 1980s
Luis García Berlanga, 1921-2010
Irreverent, darkly comic Spanish writer-director known for his satirical critiques of Francoism
Robert F. Boyle, 1909-2010
Production designer
Sally Menke, 1953-2010
Film editor of all Quentin Tarantino’s films, from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds
Takamine Hideko, 1924-2010
Actress
Werner Schroeter, 1945-2010
Writer-director
William Lubtchansky, 1937-2010
Cinematographer
Mario Monicelli, 1915-2010
In memoriam: Pasquale Iannone on Italian cinema’s Dickens, a pioneer of the ‘Comedy Italian Style’
Arthur Penn, 1922-2010
In memoriam: Peter Biskind on the director of Bonnie & Clyde, a frontiersman of the 1970s New Hollywood
Norman Wisdom, 1915-2010
The post-war British clown, popular from here to Albania
Claude Chabrol, 1930–2010
The Cahiers du cinema critic turned filmmaker, a trailblazer of the French New Wave
Kon Satoshi, 1963–2010
The brief career of a key young anime talent, director of the dreamy Perfect Blue, Paprika and Millennium Actress
Kawamoto Kihachiro, 1925–2010
Japan’s first stop-motion animator, a student of Czech puppet master Jirí Trnka
Peter Brunette, 1944–2010
Nick James remembers the late writer, critic and professor
Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010
In memoriam: Brad Stevens on the late actor-director’s most audacious endeavour, 1971’s Easy Rider follow-up The Last Movie
2009
Obituaries 2009
Sight & Sound’s comprehensive survey of the actors, directors, writers, producers and technicians who died during the course of 2009