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

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

Werner Schroeter, 1945-2010

Writer-director

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

Last Updated: 24 Apr 2012