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JAohn Hawkesworth
dozen years before the world of Upstairs, Downstairs took television by storm in the first half of the 70s, Hawkesworth produced and co-wrote the gritty Cardiff-set thriller Tiger Bay which earned him a BAFTA nomination for the script.
After distinguished war service, he first entered the British film industry as a designer, then writer and finally producer on films like The Fallen Idol, Father Brown and Windom’s Way.
But it was eventually in TV he made his most enduring mark, first with The Gold Robbers in 1969 which he co-created, wrote and produced followed, again for LWT, by the stylishly period goings-on at 165 Eaton Place.
Produced by Hawkesworth, the series (covering 1903 to 1930), ran from 1971 to 1975 winning BAFTAs, Emmys and a Golden Globe.
His subsequent series like The Duchess of Duke Street, Danger UXB, The Flames Trees Of Thika and By The Sword Divided were hardly less popular. He was 82.
JTulia Trevelyan Oman
hough perhaps better known for her work in the theatre and opera, Oman’s distinguished career as a designer also irregular- ly decorated film and television.
After graduating from The Royal College of Art she joined the BBC in 1957 working on pro- ductions like Billy Cotton’s Band Show and Six Five Special before earning acclaim for her contribu- tion to Jonathan Miller’s 1966 pro- duction, Alice In Wonderland.
Her films include The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Julius Caesar and Straw Dogs. Awarded a CBE in 1986, she died of cancer aged 73.
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But compared with his prolific theatre work in musicals, comedy and drama, his screen output – starting as Bassanio in a 1955 BBC production of The Merchant Of Venice – was comparatively small by comparison.
Some of his credits include Murder On The Orient Express, King David, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia and Cleopatra. He was 75.
MTartin Johnson
he work of Martin Johnson, artist and film production designer, was characterised by a delight in modest interiors, objects tempered and weathered by time and mechanisms that func- tioned with an elegant simplicity.”
That was Ken Loach writing in the Guardian of an invaluable collaborator with whom he worked on some 20 films across nearly 30 years.
London-born Johnson, who died in October aged 64, worked for the BBC where he and Loach got together on the gritty TV drama quartet Days Of Hope.
Apart from the odd assign- ment for Stephen Frears, Les Blair and Stephen Poliakoff, it has been Loach almost all the way through the 90s and into a new millennium with The Navigators, Sweet Sixteen and, most recently, Ae Fond Kiss.
MAichael Kamen
merican-born composer Michael Kamen who won the BAFTA award (shared with Eric Clapton) for his haunting score for the classic 1985 TV drama Edge Of Darkness has died aged 55.
Kamen, a prolific film compos- er who scored the music for the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series was also twice nominated for the Oscar, for his contribution to Don Juan De Marco and Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
He’d recently completed another Kevin Costner film, Open Range as well as First Daughter and Against The Ropes. He was also responsible for television’s stir- ring Band Of Brothers score.
David Lodge
avid Lodge became a close friend of Peter Sellers when together they helped entertain the troops in The Gang Show during World War II.
Later, the burly actor, who has died at 82, was a wonderful comic sidekick to Sellers in classic film comedies like I’m All Right, Jack and Two-Way Stretch, with Lodge as the delightful but dim safe-cracker Jelly Knight.
His film debut was in Cockleshell Heroes and he would regularly play crusty-but-benign NCOs on screen. Later, he was manager of a struggling football club in the BBC soap United!
Aenis Quilley
s the outrageously camp ENSA entertainer Acting Captain Terri Dennis in both the stage and film version of Peter Nichols’ Privates On Parade, Quilley triumphantly proved his versatility in both mediums.
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