Obituaries / Lalo Schifrin

 

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Lalo Schifrin obituary

Composer of the Mission: Impossible theme tune as well as music for a host of Hollywood films including Bullitt and Dirty Harry

Adam Sweeting

Fri 27 Jun 2025 14.54 

The career of the composer and conductor Lalo Schifrin, who has died aged 93, was incomparably rich and varied, spanning musical genres from jazz and classical to Latin American, funk, rock and avant garde. He conducted (among others) the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and composed music ranging from piano concertos and symphonies to an album of songs in the Aztec language for the tenor Plácido Domingo.

Obituaries / Edmund White

 

Edmund White

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Edmund White obituary

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

Eric Homberger

Wed 4 Jun 2025

Edmund White was present in June 1969 when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar in Manhattan, New York. Shouts of “gay power” were heard as bartenders, hat-check boys and the owners were hauled off in vans. At first it seemed an unexpected laugh, and then the men milling round in the street started to resist the police and their billy clubs. It was the moment when gay militancy was 

White, who has died aged 85, went on to become one of the most prominent gay writers of his generation, but by temperament he was not a blazing militant. His sensibility was that of a midwestern Marcel Proust, and he did not do anger. An evening spent cruising the gay bars, or chatting about the New York literary scene with the gay writers who formed the Violet Quill group, was more his style.

Obituaries / David Lynch

 

David Lynch

David Lynch obituary

US director whose wildly unconventional films burrowed into the unsavoury depths of his nation’s psyche

Rayan Gilbey

Friday 17 January 2025

David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was the most original film-maker to emerge in postwar America, as well as the greatest cinematic surrealist since Buñuel. His understanding of desire, fantasy and dread was unparalleled; the Paris Review called him “the Edward Hopper of American film”.

 

David Lodge

Books

David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89

The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987

Ella Creamer

Fri 3 Jan 2025 13.09 GMT

British author and critic David Lodge, best known for his Campus Trilogy of novels, has died aged 89.

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones, revered actor and voice of Star Wars’ Darth Vader, dies aged 93

American actor starred in films including The Great White Hope and The Lion King, and won two Tony awards in prolific stage career

Andrew Pulver

Monday 9 September 2024

James Earl Jones, the actor whose beautifully sonorous tones gave voice to Star Wars’ principal villain Darth Vader, has died aged 93.

Edna O´Brien

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Edna O’Brien obituary

Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

Luke Dodd

Monday 20 July 2024

Before Edna O’Brien, Irish female writers tended to come from the preserve of the “big house” or enjoyed the kind of privilege that made a life of writing possible. And by and large, their books dealt with genteel themes and conformed to recognisable genres and narrative forms.

Shannen Doherty in A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story, in which she played the Gone with the Wind author, in 1994.

Photograph: Diana Gibson

Shannen Doherty, Heathers and Beverly Hills 90210 star, dies at 53

The actor, also known for roles in Charmed and Little House on the Prairie, has died of cancer

Shannen Doherty Wants to 'Embrace Life' as Cancer Has Spread to Her Bones / 'My Greatest Memory Is Yet to Come'

Benjamin Lee
Sunday 14 July 2024

Shannen Doherty, star of Beverly Hills 90210 and Heathers, has died at the age of 53.

A statement from her publicist Leslie Sloane, cited by People magazine, said: “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease.”

Alasdair Gray in 2010 with some of his work in a gallery at the University of Edinburgh.
An accomplished visual artist as well as a writer of fiction, he often incorporated
his artwork in his writings.Credit...

Alasdair Gray, Scottish Author of Daring Prose, Dies at 85

He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted.

Julia Carmel
January 10, 2020

Alasdair Gray, who wrote some of Scotland’s most celebrated — and strange — fiction, which he often interlaced with his own sharply etched illustrations, died on Dec. 29 at a hospital in Glasgow. He was 85.

 

Vivian Maier
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Death Notice: VIVIAN MAIER

Chicago Tribune
Published: Apr 23, 2009 at 12:00 am

Vivian Maier, proud native of France and Chicago resident for the last 50 years died peacefully on Monday.

Second mother to John, Lane and Matthew.

A free and kindred spirit who magically touched the lives of all who knew her.

Always ready to give her advice, opinion or a helping hand.

A truly special person who will be sorely missed but whose long and wonderful life we all celebrate and will always remember.

Memorial donations can be given to the Native American Heritage Association, P.O. Box 512, Rapid City, SD 57709.

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Obituaries / Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor

 

Sinéad O’Connor obituary

Singer who shot to global superstardom with a song by Prince, Nothing Compares 2 U, one of the biggest-selling singles of 1990

By her own account, the childhood of the musician Sinéad O’Connor, who has died aged 56, was more than usually difficult: her parents split when she was young and, against her wishes, she was sent to live with her mother, who she said physically abused her and encouraged her to shoplift. The stealing led to the 14-year-old Sinéad spending 18 months at a training centre that had previously been one of Dublin’s notorious church-affiliated Magdalene laundries.

Obituaries / Christopher Fowler

 

Christopher Fowler: Time Out called him ‘an award-winning novelist who would make a good serial killer’. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Christopher Fowler Obituary

Author of the Bryant & May detective novels, short stories and essays on forgotten writers – including himself

Steve Holland

20 March 2023

In a brief biographical sketch, the crime writer Christopher Fowler, who has died aged 69, claimed he had achieved several of his “pathetic schoolboy fantasies”: releasing an “appalling” Christmas pop single; working as a male model; posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel; running a Soho night club; appearing in The Pan Book of Horror series; and standing in for James Bond. Rather than examples of Fowler’s wicked sense of humour, all these claims were true. Time Out, meanwhile, called him “an award-winning novelist who would make a good serial killer”.