My mother, Joyce Edwards, who has died aged 99, was a photographer and the landlady of a ramshackle Hampstead home whose actor and artist tenants she captured in thousands of recently discovered portraits.
She supported artists and actors with reasonable rents so that they could concentrate on their careers; among those were Ivor Cutler, the celebrated Scottish humorist; the actor Elizabeth Shepherd; Vladek Sheybal, a James Bond screen villain; and the actor Henry Woolf, a close friend of the playwright Harold Pinter.
