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Thank you
Thank you
The Academy is
extremely grateful
to the following
companies who
generously support the Academy and its work of promoting the best
of Film, Television and Interactive entertainment
in the UK and overseas, through Corporate Membership.
PLATINUM
• American Airlines • Andersen
• BARCO Limited
• Consignia
• Orange Plc. • Radio Times
GOLD
• Baker Tilly
• BBC Scotland
• British Broadcasting Corporation • BSkyB
• Carlton Television
• Channel Four
• Granada Media Group
• Macromedia Europe
• Scottish Media Group
SILVER
• BBC Cymru
• BT
• Carlton Broadcasting
• HTV Group Plc
• Kodak Entertainment Imaging Ltd • S4C
• KPMG Media & Entertainment
• Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television
BRONZE
• Border Television
• Dolby Laboratories Inc. • Invicta Capital
• Pathé Entertainment
SUPPORTERS
• AVID Technology Europe Limited • Barcud Derwin
• Bermans Solicitors
• Buena Vista International
• Columbia TriStar Films (UK) • Entertainment Film
Distributors Ltd
• Film Council
• Film Four Distributors
• McMillan UK
• Odeon Cinemas
• Scottish Screen
• Twentieth Century Fox
• United International Pictures (UK) • University of Salford
• Warner Bros. Distributors Ltd
For more information please telephone Julie Chadwell, Director of Corporate Development BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly London W1J 9LN tel 020 7734 0022 email juliec@bafta.org
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J Lee Thompson
Although he only ever received one Oscar nomi- nation, J Lee Thompson, who has died aged 88, directed some extremely successful films both here and in Hollywood includ- ing Ice Cold In Alex, The Guns Of Navarone and Cape Fear.
Born in Bristol, Thompson made his debut as a director in 1950 with Murder Without Crime, based on his own play. It was to be the first of nearly 50 credits across four decades.
From contemporary realism like Woman In A Dressing Gown, Yield To The Night and Tiger Bay to action-packed period adven- tures such as Ice Cold In Alex, North West Frontier and The Guns Of Navarone, Thompson proved he was both productive and efficient.
Cape Fear, with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, marked his stylish Hollywood debut in 1961 though nothing after – including a pair of Planet Of The Apes sequels – would ever quite match his earlier work.
Katrin Cartlidge
The depth, scope and range of Katrin’s acting was phe- nomenal. Had she continued, she would most certainly have become, over the next 40 years or so, one of the true greats.”
That was director Mike Leigh recently paying tribute to London-born Katrin Cartlidge who died tragically in September aged just 41. She and Leigh collaborated most memorably on Naked and Career Girls, for which she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award in 1997.
On stage she performed at the Royal Court and the National Theatre but will probably be best remembered for typically spiky performances on the big and small screen.
For TV her credits ranged from Brookside to Sword Of Honour (as Julia Stitch) while her films also included Before The Rain, Breaking The Waves, From Hell and this year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar winner, No Man’s Land.
Bill Craig
As both an innovator and writer-for-hire, Bill Craig was one of television’s most prolific authors working for 40 years in the medium until his death in July aged 72.
Glasgow-born, Craig started out as a newspaperman before turning his hand to TV on shows like Compact, Dixon Of Dock Green, Probation Officer and The Plane Makers.
There was often a Scottish flavour to his work notably with The Vital Spark, The Camerons and his acclaimed trilogy of Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptations – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite.
A keen BAFTA member, Craig was also a founder member of the Writers’ Guild and fought tire- lessly for authors’ rights.
Michael Elphick
Although perhaps best known for starring roles in television series and sit- coms like Boon, Harry and Three Up Two Down, gravel-voiced actor Michael Elphick also made some memorable films including The Elephant Man, Gorky Park and Privates On Parade.
Equally adept at drama and comedy, Elphick, who has died aged 55, was a vision in short trousers for Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills and a droll World War Two German fraud- ster in Private Schulz, written by Jack Pulman. He leaves a daughter, Kate.
Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt, who has died aged 77, edited the first five James Bond movies. For the sixth, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he made his debut as director.
Hunt began as an assistant cutter for Alexander Korda later earning his first full-fledged editor credit on A Hill In Korea. After OHMSS, Hunt went on to direct Gold, Shout At the Devil and Wild Geese II.
Kim Hunter
Before finding herself blacklist- ed in 50s Hollywood, Kim Hunter had played David Niven’s reason-to-live in A Matter Of Life And Death and won an Oscar as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.
A doyenne of the American stage, Hunter, who has died aged 79, made only a smattering of films including the first three Planet Of The Apes adventures - playing kindly Dr Zira under heavy simian make-up.
James Mitchell
Creator of two of television’s most popular ever series, Callan and When The Boat Comes In, writer James Mitchell has died in his native North-East aged 76.
He also co-created Justice and was a contributor to other long-running series like The Avengers and The Troubleshooters among more than 100 scripts.
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