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Letter: Brigitte Bardot obituary

Quentin Falk writes: Betty Box would recall in her memoir that Bardot’s ‘fractured English charmed everyone’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2025

Björn Andrésen obituary

Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2025

Darling review – Julie Christie’s romantic satire of swinging 60s has a terrific punch

Christie won an Oscar for her role in John Schlesinger’s film as an insouciant model caught between two lovers at the height of London’s fashion scene

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2025

Dorothy Bromiley obituary

One of three British ‘starlets’ picked to play sisters living on a Pacific atoll in the 1953 US comedy The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2024

King and Country review – Joseph Losey’s brutal reflection on the futility of war

Tom Courtenay is unforgettable as a first world war private on trial for desertion. But it is Dirk Bogarde, dripping with distaste for his defendant who delivers a horrific coup de grâce

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023

Helmut Berger obituary

Film actor whose hypnotic presence was central to a trio of films directed by Luchino Visconti in the late 1960s and early 70s

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2023

Secrets of Ealing Studios including the stunt that almost drowned Alec Guinness

New book The Secret Life of Ealing Films by Robert Sellers reveals the secrets from behind the scenes of classic movies, including a crevasse fall by John Mills and the stunt that nearly drowned Alec Guinness

Daily Mirror · Mar 10, 2023

A lowly sergeant, but Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood is top of the cops

Sarah Lancashire’s portrayal in the hit series is 10 times tougher than her TV predecessors

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2023

Sylvia Syms obituary

Actor who starred in films of the 1950s and 60s including Ice Cold in Alex and went on to a long career in supporting roles

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

Sylvia Syms, prolific British actor, dies aged 89

Performer starred opposite Dirk Bogarde in Victim as well as playing the mother of Helen Mirren’s monarch in The Queen

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023