Date |
Name |
Age |
Cinematic Credibility
|
4 January
|
Jameson Clark
|
76
|
actor
|
11 February
|
John Comer
|
59
|
actor (Sid in Last of the Summer Wine)
|
1 March
|
Roland Culver
|
83
|
actor
|
4 March
|
Geoffrey Lumsden
|
69
|
actor (Captain Square in Dad's Army)
|
12 March
|
Arnold Ridley
|
88
|
actor (Private Charles Godfrey in Dad's Army)
|
17 March
|
John Dearth
|
63
|
actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
|
27 March
|
Derek Francis
|
60
|
actor
|
31 March
|
Jack Howarth
|
88
|
actor (Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street)
|
1 April
|
William Kendall
|
80
|
actor
|
15 April
|
Tommy Cooper
|
63
|
comedian and magician
|
26 April
|
Barry Gray
|
75
|
theme tune composer
|
2 May
|
Frank Forsyth
|
78
|
actor
|
4 May
|
Diana Dors
|
52
|
actress (Queenie's Castle, Just William, The Two Ronnies)
|
15 May
|
Mary Adams
|
86
|
television producer and director
|
27 May
|
Reginald Bosanquet
|
51
|
journalist and newsreader, presented News at Ten during the 1970s
|
28 May
|
Eric Morecambe
|
58
|
comedian (Morecambe and Wise)
|
30 May
|
Michael Elliott
|
52
|
television director
|
6 June
|
Edith Sharpe
|
89
|
actress
|
24 June
|
Tommy Godfrey
|
68
|
actor
|
11 July
|
Hugh Morton
|
81
|
actor
|
18 July
|
Lally Bowers
|
70
|
actress
|
23 July
|
Anthony Sharp
|
69
|
actor
|
12 August
|
Christine Hargreaves
|
45
|
actress (Christine Appleby in Coronation Street)
|
27 August
|
Bernard Youens
|
69
|
actor (Stan Ogden in Coronation Street)
|
6 September
|
Donny MacLeod
|
52
|
television presenter (Pebble Mill at One)
|
27 September
|
Toke Townley
|
71
|
actor (Sam Pearson in Emmerdale)
|
5 October
|
Leonard Rossiter
|
57
|
actor (Rising Damp, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)
|
10 October
|
Alan Lake
|
43
|
actor
|
26 October
|
Noel Howlett
|
81
|
actor (Please Sir!)
|
6 November
|
Seymour de Lotbiniere
|
79
|
pioneer of outside broadcasts
|
20 November
|
Peter Welch
|
62
|
actor (Dixon of Dock Green, Spy Trap, Emmerdale)
|
23 November
|
Margaret Burton
|
60
|
actress (The Tomorrow People)
|
15 December
|
Lennard Pearce
|
69
|
actor (Grandad in Only Fools and Horses)
|
22 December
|
Sidney Vivian
|
83
|
actor (Hadleigh)
|
24 December
|
Ian Hendry
|
53
|
actor
|