2019 in memoriam

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Ron Smith (?/24-10/1/19), Judge Dredd artist

Dianne Oxberry (28/11/67-10/1/19), Simon Mayo breakfast sidekick, 8:15 From Manchester presenter, BBC North West weather presenter

Windsor Davies (28/8/30-17/1/19), Battery Sergeant Major Williams from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Smallbridge from Never The Twain

Hugh McIlvanney (2/2/34-24/1/19), doyenne of sports journalism and documentary

James Ingram (16/2/52-29/1/19), R&B singer-songwriter

Clive Swift (9/2/36-1/2/19), Richard from Keeping Up Appearances

Jeremy Hardy (17/7/61-1/2/19), comedian and Radio 4 regular

Albert Finney (9/5/36-7/2/19), Bafta winning, five time Oscar nominated film and TV acting great

Richard Gregory (24/7/54-7/2/19), Gerry Anderson’s animatronics designer, later worked on Walking With Dinosaurs and Bond films

Jan-Michael Vincent (15/7/44-10/2/19), Stringfellow Hawke from Airwolf

Peter Tork (13/2/42-21/2/19), Monkees “bassist”

Graeme Curry (?/57-24/2/19), writer for Doctor Who (The Happiness Patrol), Eastenders and the Bill

Mark Hollis (4/1/55-25/2/19), Talk Talk frontman

Andre Previn (6/4/29-28/2/19), composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, Eric Morecambe straight man and BBC2 chat show host

Keith Flint (17/9/69-4/3/19), Prodigy frontman

Magenta Devine (4/11/57-6/3/19), Network 7, DEF II and Rough Guide

Scott Walker (9/1/43-22/3/19), Walker Brother turned increasingly obtuse solo musician

Ranking Roger (21/2/63-26/3/19), The Beat toaster

John Quarmby (18/6/29-5/4/19), the health inspector in Fawlty Towers’ Basil The Rat, also Z-Cars, Porridge, Juliet Bravo, Howard’s Way and K-9 & Company

Sandy Ratcliff (2/10/48-7/4/19), Sue Osman from Eastenders

Ken Kercheval (15/7/35-21/4/19), Dallas’ Cliff Barnes

Edward Kelsey (4/6/30-23/4/19), Joe Grundy in the Archers, voice of Dangermouse’s Colonel K and Baron Greenback

Boon Gould (4/3/55-30/4/19), Level 42 guitarist

Freddie Starr (9/1/43-9/5/19), high-spirited comedian

Brian Walden (8/7/32–9/5/19), MP turned ITV political interviewer

Andrew Hall (19/1/54-20/5/19), Russell in Butterflies

Royce Mills (12/5/42-21/5/19), stage farceur, occasional Dalek voice and Arthur Daley’s accountant

John Myers (11/4/59-1/6/19), Border and Tyne Tees presenter and continuity announcer turned commercial radio executive

Paul Darrow (2/5/41-3/6/19), Avon from Blake’s 7

William Simons (17/11/40-21/6/19), PC Ventress in Heartbeat

Max Wright (2/8/43-26/6/19), Willie Tanner in ALF

Glyn Houston (23/10/25-30/6/19), regular supporting actor (Softly Softly, Keep It In The Family)

Duncan Lamont (4/7/31-2/7/19), jazz saxophonist who wrote and performed the Mr Benn theme

John McCririck (17/4/40-5/7/19), Channel 4 Racing’s extravagant betting reporter

Freddie Jones (12/9/27-9/7/19), Emmerdale’s Sandy Thomas, also The Ghosts Of Motley Hall and occasional Jackanory reader

Brendan Grace (1/4/51-11/7/19), Irish comedian, Father Ted’s Father Fintan Stack, wrote and first recorded Combine Harvester

Jimmy Patton (20/8/31-26/7/19), Chuckle Brothers’ brother, Chucklevision’s No Slacking

Lol Mason (?/50-31/7/19), City Boy and Maisonettes singer

Joe Longthorne (31/5/55-3/8/19), entertainer, singer and impressionist

Anna Quayle (6/10/32-16/8/19), stage actress, regular panellist on What’s My Line?, Grange Hill’s Mrs Monroe

Richard Williams (19/3/33-16/8/19), animator on films (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pink Panther) and adverts (Cresta)

Sheila Steafel (26/5/35-23/8/19), mostly comedy character actor (Frost Report, Not Only But Also, The Good Old Days)

Terrance Dicks (14/4/35-29/8/19), Doctor Who writer and script editor, co-created Moonbase 3, wrote for Space 1999 and Crossroads

Valerie Harper (22/8/39-30/8/19), Rhoda

Ric Ocasek (23/3/44-15/9/19), The Cars frontman

Leah Bracknell (12/7/64-?/9/19), Zoe Tate in Emmerdale

Peter Sissons (17/7/42-1/10/19), newscaster and Question Time presenter

Stephen Moore (11/12/37-4/10/19), Rock Follies, Solo, voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in TV and radio Hitchhiker’s Guide

Reg Watson (27/8/26-8/10/19), creator of Crossroads, Neighbours, Sons & Daughters and Prisoner Cell Block H

Juliette Kaplan (2/10/39-10/10/19), Pearl in Last Of The Summer Wine
AND Jean Fergusson (30/12/44-14/11/19), Marina in Last Of The Summer Wine

Gay Byrne (5/8/34-4/11/19), The Late Late Show host for 37 years

Richard Lindley (25/4/36-6/11/19), ITN and Panorama reporter

Ian Cullen (20/10/39-12/11/19), Z Cars, When the Boat Comes In, Doctor Who’s The Aztecs

Clive James (7/10/39-24/11/19), revolutionary TV critic, broadcasting wit, endlessly fascinated documentarian

Gary Rhodes (22/4/60-26/11/19), trailblazing TV chef

Jonathan Miller (21/7/34-27/11/19), writer, satirist, director, presenter, author and doctor

Greedy Smith (16/1/56-2/12/19), Mental As Anything frontman

Donald Tosh (16/3/35-3/12/19), last surviving writer for the First Doctor, also helped to develop Coronation Street

Paul Squire (?/50-4/12/19), comedian/entertainer with shortlived BBC and ITV prime-time show career

Andy Robin (31/8/35-4/12/19), owner of Hercules the grizzly bear

Michael Peacock (14/9/29-6/12/19), first controller of BBC2 and first managing director of LWT

Caroll Spinney (26/12/33-8/12/19), Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch puppeteer

Rene Auberjonois (1/6/40-8/12/19), Star Trek DS9, Benson, M*A*S*H film

Marie Fredriksson (30/5/58-9/12/19), Roxette singer

David Bellamy (8/1/33-11/12/19), nature and science adventurer

Sheila Mercier (1/1/19-13/12/19), Emmerdale’s Annie Sugden

Nicky Henson (12/5/45-15/12/19), Shakespearian theatre actor who was Mr Johnson in Fawlty Towers’ The Psychiatrist

Kenny Lynch (18/3/38-18/12/19), variety singer and entertainer

Tony Britton (9/6/24-22/12/19), sitcom, stage and film actor, Fern’s dad

Neil Innes (9/12/44-30/12/19), Bonzo Dog Band, seventh Python, Rutles, Innes Book Of Records
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