Obituaries
American filmmaker Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
By David Walsh, May 30, 2008
American director, producer and actor Sydney Pollack, best known for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1973), Tootsie (1982) and Out of Afr...
Hugo Claus 1929-2008: “Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth at the injustice of things”
By Paul Bond, April 19, 2008
Belgian author Hugo Claus, who died last month, was one of the most prolific and versatile of postwar European writers. From 1947, when he was just 18, he produced thousands of poems, some 20 novels, ...
Charlton Heston and postwar American filmmaking
By Joanne Laurier and David Walsh, April 18, 2008
American film actor Charlton Heston died April 5 in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 84. In 2002, he announced publicly that he had been diagnosed with symptoms “consistent with Alzheime...
Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
By Hiram Lee, April 8, 2008
American actor Richard Widmark, a veteran of more than 70 films as well as numerous theater and radio productions, died March 24 at his Connecticut home after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark was a ...
Jules Dassin, victim of the anti-communist witch-hunt, dies at 96
By David Walsh, April 3, 2008
Film director Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted in Hollywood in the early 1950s and spent the rest of his life in Europe, died in Athens March 31 at the age of 96.
Actor Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922-March 19, 2008): “I’m an actor because I’m good at it”
By Paul Bond, April 3, 2008
Any consideration of an actor’s legacy must ask: What impact did he or she have on the art and craft? What can younger artists learn from his or her life? Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86, le...
Heath Ledger dead at 28: a life tragically cut short
By Richard Phillips, January 31, 2008
The sudden death on January 22 in New York City of Australian actor Heath Ledger, best known for his role as Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, has seen an outpouring of heartfelt tr...
Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
By Sandy English, October 19, 2007
Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and political activist, died on August 22, aged 84. She described the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the postwar period more ably than almost any other w...
Drummer Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
By John Andrews, August 20, 2007
On August 16, jazz lost one of its most admired and significant figures when drummer Max Roach died in New York City following a long illness. He was 83.
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007): An appreciation and a lament
By Marty Jonas, August 17, 2007
With the coincidental deaths of film directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman on Monday, July 30, we note not just the passing of two great artists, but the passing on of a great generation...
Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
By Stefan Steinberg, July 30, 2007
The Hungarian-born playwright George Tabori (born György Tábori) has died in Berlin, at the age of 93. He continued to work actively in theatre until the end and the head of the Berliner Ensemble th...
Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
By Stefan Steinberg, July 30, 2007
The Hungarian-born playwright George Tabori (born György Tábori) has died in Berlin, at the age of 93. He continued to work actively in theatre until the end and the head of the Berliner Ensemble th...
