Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003

Subject: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: Fiolar
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 09:24 AM

At the end of one year and the beginning of another, it is with some sadness that I list those who have left us in 2003. Many were world famous; others less well know but all at one time or another brought happiness, laughter and thrills to countless millions. I salute them all. Apologies if I have missed any one out.
Following a request made last year, I have also listed them in alphabetical order after December's list.

JANUARY:
Royce Applegate (Actor); Imogene Bliss (Actress); Mel Bourne (Production Designer); Frank "Hylo" Brown (Country Musician); Philip Brown (Film Maker); John Browning (Pianist); Fritzi Burr (Actress); Buzz Busby (Mandolinist & Bandleader); Jean Campbell (Singer); Nell Carter (Singer & Actress); Doreen Carwithen (Composer); Paul Connor (Singer & Actor); Richard Crenna (Actor); Elisabeth Croft (Actress); Russ David (Pianist & Bandleader); Anthony Eisley (Actor); Mary Ellis (Actress); Sylvia Ellstein (Playwright); Lucy Farr (Musician); Mickey Finn (Bongo Player – Member of "T-Rex"); Doris Fisher (Songwriter); Maurice Gibb (Member of "The Bee Gees"); Ron Goodwin (Composer & Musician); John Green (Singer); Conrad Hall (Cinematographer); Anthony Havelock-Allan (Film Producer); Al Hirschfeld (Illustrator & Caricaturist); Joy Hodges (Actress); Edna Iles (Pianist); Eric Jupp (Composer); Jean Kerr (Bridget Jean Collins) (Playwright & Writer); Gavin Lyall (Writer); John Mantley (TV Producer); Eddy Marnay (Edmond Bacri) (Songwriter); Stan Martin (Broadcaster); Bill Mauldin (Cartoonist); Paul Monash (Film Producer & Screenwriter); Bobby Montez (Jazz Musician); Yfrah Neaman (Violinist); Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell (Harmonica Player); Cliff Norton (Actor); Daphne Oram (Electronic Music Pioneer); Lester Osterman (Theatre Producer); Norman Panama (Screenwriter); Percell Perkins (Singer); Tam Reid (Singer); Robert Rockwell (Actor); William Russo (Composer & Bandleader); Zachary Schwartz (Animator); Cyril Shaps (Actor); Peter Shaw (Actor & TV Producer); Richard Simmons (Actor); Tommy Thompson (Musician & Composer); Peter Tinniswood (Playwright & Novelist); Leopoldo Trieste (Actor); Billy Van (Comedian); Nedra Volz (Actress); Edward Young (Writer & Book Designer).

FEBRUARY:
Robert Arnold (Actor); Alexander Bennett (Ballet Dancer); Charlie Biddle (Jazz Musician); Ruby Braff (Musician); Chris Brasher (Athlete & Founder of the London Marathon); Jack Brodsky (Film Producer); Barry Bucknell (TV Presenter); Keba Cissoko (Musician); Lana Clarkson (Actress); Ginni Clemmens (Songwriter & Musician); Dorothy Clewes (Writer); Joe Connelly (TV Writer & Producer); Keven A. "Dino" Conner (Singer); Clyde Dickerson (Saxophone Player); Daniel Toscan Du Plantier (Film Producer); Jonathan Eberhart (Musician); Howie Epstein (Bass Player); Tom Glazer (Folksinger & Guitarist); Owen Hand (Musician & Singer); Lou Harrison (Composer); Will Hastie (Musician & Former Member of "The Temperance Seven"); Jerome Hines (Singer & Composer); Susan Johnson (Actress); Stacy Keach, Snr. (Actor & Director); William Kelley (Screenwriter & Novelist); John Lanchbery (Composer & Conductor); Ty Longley (Guitarist); Anne Burr McDermott (Actress); Raymond McLain (Musician); Jarry Mayer (Actor); Timothy Moore (Musician & Composer); Johnny Paycheck (Singer); Thomas Phipps (Playwright); Vera Ralston (Actress); Esther Ridgeway (Singer); Malcolm Roberts (Singer); Fred McFeely Rogers (Composer, Lyricist & Author); Mongo Santamaria (Percussionist & Bandleader); Peter Saunders (Theatre Manager & Producer); Peter Schrum (Actor); John Shaw (Opera Singer); Johnny Silver (Singer & Actor); Alberto Sordi (Actor); Jean Sullivan (Actress & Singer);Andre Tanker (Musician); Daniel Taradish (Screenwriter); Othar Turner (Bluesman); Titos Vandis (Actor); Donald Ward (Poet); Nancy Whiskey (Anne Wilson) (Singer & Guitarist); Stephen Whittaker (Actor & Director).

MARCH:
Zinn Arthur (Bandleader & Photographer); Harold Ayer (Actor); David Azarian (Pianist); Hank Ballard (Singer/Songwriter); William Blezard (Pianist & Composer); Stan Brakhage (Film Director); Ninian Brodie (Actor); Horst Bucholz (Actor); Adrian Cairns (Actor & Broadcaster); Bill Carlisle (Singer & Guitarist); Edwin Carr (Composer); John Chapman (Dance Caller); Micaela Comberti (Violinist); Nadine Conner (Singer); John Cotton (Poet); Lionel Dakers (Organist & Music Director); Rusty Draper (Singer); Nick Enright (Screenwriter); Adam Faith (Singer & Actor); Howard Fast (Writer); Emile Genest (Actor); Lewis Greifer (Scriptwriter); Ann Gwynne (Actress); Manny Harmon (Bandleader); Thora Hird (Actress); Don Hood (Actor); Leigh Jackson (TV Writer); Michael Jeter (Actor); Alan Keith (Actor & Broadcaster); Sue Knussen (Musician); Kevin Laffan (Playwright & TV Scriptwriter); Sidney Lippman (Songwriter); Alice Martineau (Singer/Songwriter); George Miller (Comedian); Karen Morley (Mabel Linton) (Actress); Buzz Potter (Poet); Bill Reddick (Actor); Ian Samwell (Songwriter); John Sanford (Julian Lawrence Shapiro) (Writer); Barry Sheene (Motorcycle Racer); Lloyd Shirley (TV Producer); Lynne Thigpen (Actress); Malcolm Williamson (Composer & Master of the Queen's Music); Philip Yordan (Screenwriter); Paul Zindel (Playwright & Screenwriter).

APRIL:
Cholly Atkins (Tapdancer & Choreographer); Homer Banks (Singer & Songwriter); Betty Baskcomb (Actress); Lyric Benson (Actress); Pamela Bowden (Singer); Kathie Browne (Actress); Felice Bryant (Songwriter); Anthony Caruso (Actor); Leslie Cheung (Actor & Singer); Harry Dailey (Bass Guitarist); Cecile De Brunhoff (Creator of "Babar the Elephant"); Johnny Douglas (Composer, Arranger & Conductor); Allen Eager (Saxophonist); Teddy Edwards (Musician & Composer); Jean-Yves Escoffier (Cinematographer); Irving Foy (Entertainer); Walter Fuller (Jazz Trumpeter & Bandleader); David Greene (Actor & Director); Ray Hicks (Storyteller); Jutta Hipp (Jazz Pianist); Graham P. Jarvis (Actor); Sue Johnson (Musician); John Kent (Cartoonist); Andrea King (Actress); Earl King (Guitarist & Singer); Sydney Lassick (Actor); Pat Leavy (Actress); Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) (Singer); Emile Loteanu (Film Director); Anthony Richard Masters (Writer); Addie McPhail (Actress); Lili Murati (Actress); Ferenc Nemethy (Actor); Jess Nilsson (Actor); Joan Phipson (Writer); Maurice Rapf (Screenwriter); Neil Russell (Actor); David Schall (Actor); Jan Scott (Art Director & Production Designer); Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon) (Singer, Pianist & Composer); Edwin Starr (Charles Edwin Hatcher) (Singer); Elaine Steinbeck (Actress); Peter Stone ( Librettist & Screenwriter); Michael Wayne (Film Producer); Lionel Wilson (Voice Actor);Vera Zorina (Ballerina & Actress).

MAY:
Michael David Anthony (Writer); Lionel Bentley (Violinist); Luciano Berio (Composer); Sesto Bruscantini (Opera Singer); June Carter Cash (Singer/Songwriter); Tony Cattaneo (Animator); Michaela Denis (Filmmaker); Freyda Epstein (Folk Musician); Janine Fluet (Actress); Jack Gelber (Playwright); Lorne Gibson (Eric Brown) (Singer); Freddy Guerra (Musician – Former Member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra); Michael Haslam (Singer); Lowell Hawley (Writer & Composer); Dame Wendy Hiller (Actress); Joe Hughes (Guitarist & Singer); Kelly Isaacs (Violinist); Danny Kamekona (Actor); Rachel Kempson (Actress); Maurice McEndree (Actor & Producer); Leonard Michaels (Writer); Mickey Most (Record Producer); Felice Orlandi (Actor); Suzy Parker (Actress & Model); Al Plank (Jazz Pianist); James Plunkett (Writer); Noel Redding (Bass Guitarist); Jeremy Sandford (Writer); Martha Scott (Actress); Albert Sendrey (Composer & Arranger); Gerry Shephard (Guitarist & Singer/Songwriter); Howard "Sandman" Sims (Entertainer); Bernard Spear (Actor); Robert Stack (Actor); Dewey Terry (Singer/Songwriter); Sloan Wilson (Writer); Kathleen Winsor (Writer); George Wylie (Composer & TV Writer); Jean Yanne (Actor).

JUNE:
Rod Amateau (TV Director); Harold Ashby (Saxophonist); George Axelrod (Writer); Belle Chrystall (Actress); Fielder Cook (Director); Hume Cronyn (Actor); Richard Cusak (Actor & Writer); Herschel Gilbert (Screen & TV Composer); Trevor Goddard (Actor); Alex Gordon (Actor & Film Producer); Ken Grimwood (Writer); Buddy Hackett (Comedian & Actor); Katharine Hepburn (Actress); Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko (Clarinettist & Bandleader); Jimmy Knepper (Jazz Trombonist); "Larry" (Terence Parkes) (Cartoonist & Illustrator); Tony McCauley (Broadcaster & Musician); William Marshall (Actor); David Newman (Screenwriter); Gregory Peck (Actor); Burt Rhodes (Composer); Carlos Rivas (Actor); Manuel Rosenthal (Conductor & Composer); Dave Rowberry (Musician & Member of "The Animals"); Laura Sadler (Actress); Ray Serra (Actor); Philip Stone (Actor); Leon Uris (Novelist); Dennis Wicks (Opera Singer).

JULY:
Alvin Alcorn (Jazz Trumpeter); Howard Armstrong (Musician); Will Atkinson (Musician); Skip Battin (Bass Player); George Baxt (Novelist & Screenwriter); Aaron Bell (Bass Player); Robert Blumofe (Film Producer); True Boardman (Actor & Screenwriter); Robin Boyle (Broadcaster); Eric Keith Braunn (Composer & Member of "Iron Butterfly"); Sheila Bromley (Sheila LeGay) (Actress); Benny Carter (Jazz Musician); Bernice Freedman Cobert (Pianist & Performer); Frederick Coffin (Actor); William Copeland (Writer & Producer); Celia Cruz (Singer); Buddy Ebsen (Actor); Nicolas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson) (Novelist); Marshall Lon Freeman (Gospel Singer); Renee Gadd (Actress); Winston Graham (Writer); Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope) (Comedian & Actor); Warren Kremer (Illustrator and Creator of "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Richie Rich"); James Mitchell Lear (Actor & Writer); Norma McClure (Actress); Tyler McVey (Actor); Ramolo Makhene (Actor); Herbie Mann (Jazz Musician & Composer); Lee Roy Matocha (Bandleader & Broadcaster); Carol Grace Matthau (Actress); Sam Phillips (Record Producer); Woolf Phillips (Trombonist & Bandleader); George Roper (George Francis Furnival) (Comedian); Kay Rose (Dancer); Yvonne Sanson (Actress); Compay Segundo (Francisco Repilado) (Singer); John Schlesinger (Film Director); Carol Shields (Novelist); Serge Silberman (Producer); Rosalyn Tureck (Musician); Alexander Walker (Film Critic & Writer); Skip Ward (Actor & Producer); Elisabeth Welch (Actress & Singer); Barry White (Singer); William Woolfolk (Novelist, Comic Book Author & TV Writer).

AUGUST:
Catalino Curet Alonzo (Composer); Hy Anzell (Actor); Julius Baker (Flautist); Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinski) (Actor); Wilma Burgess (Singer); Constance Chapman (Actress); Michael Chapman (Actor); Jacques Deray (Film Director); Don Estelle (Comedian & Singer); Jinx Falkenburg (Actress, Model & Talk Show Hostess); Ebony (Caroline Anne) Gray (Singer & Actress); Gregory Hines (Dancer & Actor); Tony Jackson (Singer, Guitarist & Member of "The Seekers"); Bayo Martins (Drummer); Grover Mitchell (Trombonist & Leader of The Count Basie Orchestra); Michael Mulcahy (Musician); Brianne Murphy (Cinematographer); Kevin Oakley (Animator); Bill Perkins (Saxophonist); Carl Pitti (Actor & Stuntman); Andrew Ray (Actor); Margaret Hill Ritter (Author & Actress); Henry Ellis "Redd" Stewart (Musician, Singer & Songwriter); Charles Stubbs (Former Child Actor); Reg Thomason (Actor); Floyd Tillman (Singer, Songwriter & Guitarist); Ed Townsend (Composer); Marie Trintignant (Actress); Zena Walker (Actress); Kent Walton (Kenneth Walton Beckett) (TV Sports Commentator & Compere); Lesley Woods (Actress).

SEPTEMBER:
Rosalie Allen (Julie Marlene Bedra) (Singer); Ben Aris (Actor); Martin Azarow (Actor); Lyle Bettger (Actor); Alastair Borthwick (Writer & Broadcaster); John Brim (Singer, Songwriter & Guitarist); Reginald Smith Brindle (Composer); Rand Brooks (Actor); Marion Brown (Singer & Guitarist); Jack Brymer (Clarinettist); Paul Burlison (Guitarist); Tom Busby (Actor); Johnny Cash (Country Music Singer); Susan Chilcott (Opera Singer); Ronnie Dawson (Singer & Guitarist); Slim Dusty (Country Singer); Jules Engel (Animator and Creator of "Mr Magoo"); Stanley Fafara (Former Child Actor); Harold Fielding (Theatre Producer); Gerald Fleck (Director & Actor); Herb Gardner (Playwright); Althea Gibson (Tennis Player); Stuart Golland (Actor); Pamela Gordon (Actress); Harry Goz (Actor); Charlie Harris (Bass Player); John Hawkesworth (Television Producer); Fay Helm (Actress); Larry Hovis (Actor); Corky Hubbert (Actor); Ellen Idelson (Producer, Actress & Writer); Marshall Jamison (Actor, Director & Producer); Matthew Jay (Singer, Songwriter& Guitarist); Gordon Jump (Actor); Elia Kazan (Director); Shawn Lane (Guitarist); Frank Lowe (Saxophonist); Giselle Mackenzie (Singer & Actress); Gordon Mitchell (Charles Allen Pendleton) (Actor); Donald O'Connor (Actor); Robert Palmer (Singer); Louise Platt (Actress); George Plimpton (Author & Actor); Leni Riefenstahl (Filmmaker); John Ritter (Actor); Rex Robbins (Actor); William Roy (Songwriter, Music Director & Former Child Actor); Tony Shyrane (Radio & Television Producer); Jack Smight (Director); Wesley Tuttle (Country Singer); Tibor Varga (Musician); Peter West (TV Presenter & Sports Commentator); David Williams (Writer); Ted Wood (Singer, Drummer and Member of "The New Temperance Seven"); Sheb Wooley (Singer/Songwriter & Actor); Warren Zevon (Singer/Songwriter).

OCTOBER:
Vivien Alcock (Writer); Ethel Beard (Actress); William Bennett (Guitarist); Hamilton Benz (Actor & Writer); Arthur Berger (Composer); Fred Berry (Actor); Gary Buck (Country Musician); Clarence Cagle (Pianist); Tony Capstick (Comedian & Singer); Owen "Snake" Chapman (Muisician); Hal Clements (Harry Clement Stubbs) (Science Fiction Writer); Maxine Daniels (Gladys Lynch) (Singer); Jack Elam (Actor); Carl Fontana (Jazz Trombonist); Ram Gopal (Dancer); Bruce Edward Hall (Actor & Pupeteer); Ruth Hall (Ruth Gloria Blasco Ibanez) (Actress); Mark Hanna (Writer & Actor); Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert (Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery) (Film Director & Producer); Joy Newton Houck, Jr. (Writer, Director, Producer & Actor); Eugene Istomin (Pianist); "Chubby" Jackson (Greig Stewart Jackson) (Bass Player, Songwriter & Bandleader); Walter Kreppel (Opera Singer); Don Lanphere (Saxophonist); Joanna Lee (Writer, Producer, Director & Actress); David Lodge (Actor); Mary Lofstrom (Jazz Singer); Donald Mackechnie (Actor & Stage Director); Lynn Mathis (Actor); Peter Miller (Actor); Eve Newman (Film & Music Editor); Victoria Horne Oakey (Actress); Dale Oliver (Animator); Diana Olsson (Actress); Julie Parrish (Actress); Judith Pierce (Singer); Sari Price (Actress); Denis Quilley (Actor); Matt Roe (Writer & Actor); Guy Rolfe (Actor); Janice Rule (Actress); Oliver Sain (Musician); Bernard Schwarz (Producer); Elliott Smith (Singer); Florence Stanley (Actress); William Steig (Author & Illustrator); William Swetland (Actor); Stephanie Tyrell (Songwriter); Anne Ziegler (Singer).

NOVEMBER:
Robert Addie (Actor); Buddy Arnold (Jazz Saxophonist); Bert F. Balsam (Actor); Gillian Barge (Actress); Stephen Bates (Conductor, Composer & Lyricist); Earl Bellamy (TV Director); Jonathan Brandis (Actor); Robert Brown (Actor); Patricia Burke (Actress); Art Carney (Actor); James Carter (Singer); Charles Causley (Poet); Arthur Conley (Singer); Feldma Cullen (Actress); Ronald Emblen (Dancer); Hal England (Actor); Jerome Evans (Singer); Antonia Forest (Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubenstein) (Children's Writer); Dai Francis (Singer); Jacques Francois (Actor); Ken Gampu (Actor); Don Gibson (Songwriter); Richard Thomas Goldhahn (Singer); Bob Grant (Actor); Ray Harris (Singer, Guitarist & Record Producer); Edmund L. Hartmann (Screenwriter); Bobby Hatfield (Singer and Member of "The Righteous Brothers"); Boyce Holleman (Actor); David Holt (Actor); Michael Kamen (Composer); Kent Kennan (Composer); Meyer Kupferman (Composer); Kay E. Kuter (Actor & Director); Terry Lester (Actor); Dorothy Loudon (Actress); Juanjo Menendez (Actor); Lionel Ngakane (Actor); Teddy Randazzo (Songwriter); Gene Anthony Ray (Dancer & Actor); Gordon Reid (Actor); Greg Ridley (Bassist, Singer & Songwriter); Dorothy Ritter (Actress); Jim Siedow (Actor); Penny Singleton (Actress); Michael Small (Composer); Bill Smillie (Actor); David Stern III (Novelist and Creator of "Francis the Talking Mule"); Tony Thompson (Drummer); Claude Trenier (Singer); Margaret Trigg (Actress); Kellie Waywire (Actress); Speedy West (Guitarist); Teddy Wilburn (Country Musician).

DECEMBER:
Lewis M. Allen (Producer); Sir Alan Bates (Actor); John Bingham (Pianist); Norman Burton (Actor); Bill Chadney (Jazz Pianist); Suzanne Cloutier (Actress); Jeanne Crain (Actress); Henry Cuesta (Musician); Johnny Cunningham (Musician and Former Member of "Silly Wizard"); Ed Devereaux (Actor); Ellen Drew (Actress); Ruben Gonzalez (Pianist); Vic Gordon (Actor); Charlie Grean (Composer & Arranger); Claire Hagen (Actress & Producer); David Hemmings (Actor); Earl Hindman (Actor); Alexis Kanner (Actor, Producer & Director); Don Lamond (Drummer); Dinsdale Landen (Actor); Hope Lange (Actress); Harry Lojewski (Composer); Alfred Lynch (Actor); Sean McClory (Actor); Bob Monkhouse (Comedian, TV Host & Actor); Barry Morell (Opera Singer); Robert Peterson (Actor); Jack Ragotzy (Actor & Director); Madlyn Rhue (Actress); Patricia Roc (Felicia Riese) (Actress); Carl Schenkel (Director); Charles Shannon Writer & Actor); Gladys Shelley (Songwriter); Gary Stewart (Singer/Songwriter); Dick St John (Singer); Walter Stocker (Actor); Les Tremayne (Actor); Webster Young (Jazz Trumpeter).

A:
Robert Addie (Actor); Vivien Alcock (Writer); Alvin Alcorn (Jazz Trumpeter); Lewis M. Allen (Producer); Rosalie Allen (Julie Marlene Bedra) (Singer); Catalino Curet Alonzo (Composer); Rod Amateau (TV Director); Michael David Anthony (Writer); Hy Anzell (Actor); Royce Applegate (Actor); Ben Aris (Actor); Howard Armstrong (Musician); Buddy Arnold (Jazz Saxophonist); Robert Arnold (Actor); Zinn Arthur (Bandleader & Photographer); Harold Ashby (Saxophonist); Cholly Atkins (Tapdancer & Choreographer); Will Atkinson (Musician); George Axelrod (Writer); Harold Ayer (Actor); David Azarian (Pianist); Martin Azarow (Actor).

B:
Julius Baker (Flautist); Hank Ballard (Singer/Songwriter); Bert F. Balsam (Actor); Homer Banks (Singer & Songwriter); Gillian Barge (Actress); Betty Baskcomb (Actress); Sir Alan Bates (Actor); Stephen Bates (Conductor, Composer & Lyricist); Skip Battin (Bass Player); George Baxt (Novelist & Screenwriter); Ethel Beard (Actress); Aaron Bell (Bass Player); Earl Bellamy (TV Director); Alexander Bennett (Ballet Dancer); William Bennett (Guitarist); Lyric Benson (Actress); Lionel Bentley (Violinist); Hamilton Benz (Actor & Writer); Arthur Berger (Composer); Luciano Berio (Composer); Fred Berry (Actor); Lyle Bettger (Actor); Charlie Biddle (Jazz Musician); John Bingham (Pianist); William Blezard (Pianist & Composer); Imogene Bliss (Actress); Robert Blumofe (Film Producer); True Boardman (Actor & Screenwriter); Alastair Borthwick (Writer & Broadcaster); Mel Bourne (Production Designer); Pamela Bowden (Singer); Robin Boyle (Broadcaster); Ruby Braff (Musician); Stan Brakhage (Film Director); Jonathan Brandis (Actor); Chris Brasher (Athlete & Founder of the London Marathon); Eric Keith Braunn (Composer & Member of "Iron Butterfly"); John Brim (Singer, Songwriter & Guitarist); Reginald Smith Brindle (Composer); Ninian Brodie (Actor); Jack Brodsky (Film Producer); Sheila Bromley (Sheila LeGay) (Actress); Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinsky) (Actor); Rand Brooks (Actor); Frank "Hylo" Brown (Country Musician); Marion Brown (Singer & Guitarist); Philip Brown (Film Maker); Robert Brown (Actor); Kathie Browne (Actress); John Browning (Pianist); Sesto Bruscantini (Opera Singer); Felice Bryant (Songwriter); Jack Brymer (Clarinettist); Horst Bucholz (Actor); Gary Buck (Country Musician); Barry Bucknell (TV Presenter); Wilma Burgess (Singer); Patricia Burke (Actress); Paul Burlison (Guitarist); Fritzi Burr (Actress); Norman Burton (Actor); Buzz Busby (Mandolinist & Bandleader); Tom Busby (Actor).

C:
Clarence Cagle (Pianist); Adrian Cairns (Actor & Broadcaster); Jean Campbell (Singer); Tony Capstick (Comedian & Singer); Bill Carlisle (Singer & Guitarist); Art Carney (Actor); Edwin Carr (Composer); Benny Carter (Jazz Musician); James Carter (Singer); Nell Carter (Singer & Actress); June Carter Cash (Singer/Songwriter); Anthony Caruso (Actor); Doreen Carwithen (Composer); Johnny Cash (Country Music Singer); Tony Cattaneo (Animator); Charles Causley (Poet); Bill Chadney (Jazz Pianist); Constance Chapman (Actress); John Chapman (Dance Caller); Owen "Snake" Chapman (Musician); Leslie Cheung (Actor & Singer); Susan Chilcott (Opera Singer); Belle Chrystall (Actress); Keba Cissoko (Musician); Lana Clarkson (Actress); Hal Clements (Harry Clement Stubbs) (Science Fiction Writer); Ginni Clemmens (Songwriter & Musician); Dorothy Clewes (Writer); Suzanne Cloutier (Actress); Bernice Freedman Cobert (Pianist & Performer); Frederick Coffin (Actor); Micaela Comberti (Violinist); Arthur Conley (Singer); Joe Connelly (TV Writer & Producer); Keven A. "Dino" Conner (Singer); Nadine Conner (Singer); Paul Connor (Singer & Actor); Michael Constantin (Actor); Fielder Cook (Director); William Copeland (Writer & Director); John Cotton (Poet); Jeanne Crain (Actress); Richard Crenna (Actor); Elisabeth Croft (Actress); Hume Cronyn (Actor); Celia Cruz (Singer); Henry Cuesta (Musician); Feldma Cullen (Actress); Johnny Cunningham (Musician and Former Member of "Silly Wizard"); Richard Cusak (Actor & Writer).

D:
Harry Dailey (Bass Guitarist); Lionel Dakers (Organist & Music Director); Maxine Daniels (Gladys Lynch) (Singer); Russ David (Pianist & Bandleader); Ronnie Dawson (Singer & Guitarist); Cecile De Brunhoff (Creator of "Babar the Elephant"); Michaela Denis (Filmmaker); Jacques Deray (Film Director); Ed Devereaux (Actor); Clyde Dickerson (Saxophone Player); Johnny Douglas (Composer, Arranger & Conductor); Rusty Draper (Singer); Ellen Drew (Actress); Daniel Toscan Du Plantier (Film Producer); Slim Dusty (Country Singer).

E:
Allen Eager (Saxophonist); Jonathan Eberhart (Musician); Buddy Ebsen (Actor); Teddy Edwards (Musician & Composer); Anthony Eisley (Actor); Jack Elam (Actor); Mary Ellis (Singer & Actress); Sylvia Ellstein (Playwright); Ronald Emblen (Dancer); Jules Engel (Animator and Creator of "Mr Magoo"); Hal England (Actor); Nick Enright (Screenwriter); Freyda Epstein (Folk Musician); Howie Epstein (Bass Player); Jean-Yves Escoffier (Cinematographer); Don Estelle (Comedian & Singer); Jerome Evans (Singer).

F:
Stanley Fafara (Former Child Actor); Adam Faith (Singer & Actor); Jinx Falkenburg (Actress, Model & Talk Show Hostess); Lucy Farr (Musician); Howard Fast (Writer); Harold Fielding (Theatre Producer); Mickey Finn (Bongo Player – Member of "T-Rex"); Doris Fisher (Songwriter); Gerald Fleck (Director & Actor); Janine Fluet (Actress); Carl Fontana (Jazz Trombonist); Antonia Forest (Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubenstein) (Children's Writer); Irving Foy (Entertainer); Dai Francis (Singer); Jacques Francois (Actor); Nicolas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson) (Novelist); Marshall Lon Freeman (Gospel Singer); Walter Fuller (Jazz Trumpeter & Bandleader).

G:
Renee Gadd (Actress); Ken Gampu (Actor); Herb Gardner (Playwright); Jack Gelber (Playwright); Emile Genest (Actor); Maurice Gibb (Member of "The Bee-Gees"); Althea Gibson (Tennis Player); Don Gibson (Songwriter); Lorne Gibson (Eric Brown) (Singer); Herschel Gilbert (Screen & TV Composer); Tom Glazer (Singer & Guitarist); Trevor Goddard (Actor); Richard Thomas Goldhahn (Singer); Stuart Golland (Actor); Ruben Gonzalez (Pianist): Ron Goodwin (Composer & Musician); Ram Gopal (Dancer); Alex Gordon (Actor & Film Producer); Pamela Gordon (Actress); Vic Gordon (Actor); Harry Goz (Actor); Winston Graham (Writer); Bob Grant (Actor); Ebony (Caroline Anne) Gray (Singer & Actress); Charlie Grean (Composer & Arranger); John Green (Singer); David Greene (Actor & Director); Lewis Greifer (Scriptwriter); Ken Grimwood (Writer); Freddy Guerra (Musician – Former Member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra); Ann Gwynne (Actress).

H:
Buddy Hackett (Comedian & Actor); Claire Hagen (Actress & Producer); Bruce Edward Hall (Actor & Pupeteer); Conrad Hall (Cinematographer); Ruth Hall (Ruth Gloria Blasco Ibanez) (Actress); Owen Hand (Musician & Singer); Mark Hanna (Writer & Actor); Manny Harmon (Bandleader); Charlie Harris (Bass Player); Ray Harris (Singer, Guitarist & Record Producer); Lou Harrison (Composer); Edmund L. Hartmann (Screenwriter); Michael Haslam (Singer); Will Hastie (Musician and Former Member of "The Temperance Seven"); Bobby Hatfield (Singer and Member of "The Righteous Brothers"); Anthony Havelock-Allan (Film Producer); John Hawkesworth (Television Producer); Lowell Hawley (Writer & Composer); Fay Helm (Actress); David Hemmings (Actor); Katharine Hepburn (Actress); Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert (Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (Film Director & Producer); Ray Hicks (Storyteller); Dame Wendy Hiller (Actress); Earl Hindman (Actor); Gregory Hines (Dancer & Singer); Jerome Hines (Singer & Composer); Jutta Hipp (Jazz Pianist); Thora Hird (Actress); Al Hirschfeld (Illustrator & Caricaturist); Joy Hodges (Actress); Boyce Holleman (Actor); David Holt (Actor); Don Hood (Actor); Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope) (Comedian & Actor); Joy Newton Houck, Jr. (Writer, Director, Producer & Actor); Larry Hovis (Actor); Corky Hubbert (Actor); Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko (Clarinettist & Bandleader); Joe Hughes (Guitarist & Singer).

I:
Ellen Idelson (Producer, Actress & Writer); Edna Iles (Pianist); Kelly Isaacs (Violinist); Eugene Istomin (Pianist);

J:
"Chubby" Jackson (Greig Stewart Jackson) (Bass Player, Songwriter & Bandleader); Leigh Jackson (TV Writer); Tony Jackson (Singer, Guitarist & Member of "The Seekers"); Marshall Jamison (Actor, Director & Producer); Graham P. Jarvis (Actor); Matthew Jay (Singer, Songwriter & Guitarist); Michael Jeter (Actor); Sue Johnson (Musician); Susan Johnson (Actress); Gordon Jump (Actor); Eric Jupp (Composer).

K:
Danny Kamekona (Actor); Michael Kamen (Composer); Alexis Kanner (Actor, Producer & Director); Elia Kazan (Director); Stacy Keach, Snr. (Actor & Director); William Kelley (Screenwriter & Novelist); Rachel Kempson (Actress); Kent Kennan (Composer); John Kent (Cartoonist); Jean Kerr (Bridget Jean Collins) (Playwright & Writer); Alan Keith (Actor & Broadcaster); Andrea King (Actress); Earl King (Guitarist & Singer); Jimmy Knepper (Jazz Trombonist); Sue Knussen (Musician); Warren Kremer (Illustrator and Creator of "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Richie Rich"); Walter Kreppel (Opera Singer); Meyer Kupferman (Composer); Kay E. Kuter (Actor & Director).

L:
Kevin Laffan (Playwright & TV Scriptwriter); Don Lamond (Drummer); John Lanchbery (Composer & Conductor); Dinsdale Landen (Actor); Shawn Lane (Guitarist); Hope Lange (Actress); Don Lanphere (Saxophonist); "Larry" (Terence Parkes) (Cartoonist & Illustrator); Sydney Lassick (Actor); James Mitchell Lear (Actor & Writer); Pat Leavy (Actress); Joanna Lee (Writer, Producer, Director & Actress); Terry Lester (Actor); Sidney Lippman (Songwriter); Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) (Singer); David Lodge (Actor); Mary Lofstrom (Jazz Singer); Harry Lojewski (Composer); Ty Longley (Guitarist); Emil Loteanu (Film Director); Dorothy Loudon (Actress); Frank Lowe (Saxophonist); Gavin Lyall (Writer); Alfred Lynch (Actor).

M:
Donald Mackechnie (Actor & Stage Director); Giselle Mackenzie (Singer & Actress); Tony McCauley (Broadcaster & Musician); Sean McClory (Actor); Norma McClure (Actress); Anne Burr McDermott (Actress); Maurice McEndree (Actor & Producer); Raymond McLain (Musician); Addie McPhail (Actress); Tyler McVey (Actor); Ramolo Makhene (Actor); Herbie Mann (Jazz Musician & Composer); John Mantley (TV Producer); Eddy Marnay (Edmond Bacri) (Songwriter); William Marshall (Actor); Stan Martin (Broadcaster); Alice Martineau (Singer/Songwriter); Bayo Martins (Composer); Anthony Richard Masters (Writer); Lynn Mathis (Actor); Lee Roy Matocha (Bandleader & Broadcaster); Carol Grace Matthau (Actress); Bill Mauldin (Cartoonist); Jerry Mayer (Actor); Juanjo Menendez (Actor); Leonard Michaels (Writer); George Miller (Comedian); Peter Miller (Actor); Gordon Mitchell (Charles Allen Pendleton) (Actor); Grover Mitchell (Trombonist & Leader of The Count Basie Orchestra); Paul Monash (Film Producer & Screenwriter); Bob Monkhouse (Comedian, TV Host & Actor) Bobby Montez (Jazz Musician); Timothy Moore (Musician & Composer); Barry Morell (Opera Singer); Karen Morley (Mabel Linton) (Actress); Mickey Most (Record Producer); Michael Mulcahy (Musician); Lili Murati (Actress); Brianne Murphy (Cinematographer).

N:
Yfrah Neaman (Violinist); Ferenc Nemeth (Actor); Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell (Harmonica Player); David Newman (Screenwriter); Eve Newman (Film & Music Editor); Lionel Ngakane (Actor); Jess Nilsson (Actor); Cliff Norton (Actor).

O:
Victoria Horne Oakey (Actress); Kevin Oakley (Animator); Donald O'Connor (Actor); Dale Oliver (Animator); Diana Olsson (Actress); Daphne Oram (Electronic Music Pioneer); Felice Orlandi (Actor); Lester Osterman (Theatre Producer).

P:
Robert Palmer (Singer); Norman Panama (Screenwriter); Suzy Parker (Actress & Model); Julie Parrish (Actress); Johnny Paycheck (Singer); Gregory Peck (Actor); Bill Perkins (Saxophonist); Percell Perkins (Singer); Robert Peterson (Actor); Sam Phillips (Record Producer); Woolf Phillips (Trombonist & Bandleader); Thomas Phipps (Playwright); Joan Phipson (Writer); Judith Pierce (Singer); Carl Pitti (Actor & Stuntman); Al Plank (Jazz Pianist); Louise Platt (Actress); George Plimpton (Author & Actor); James Plunkett (Writer); Buzz Potter (Poet); Sari Price (Actress).

Q:
Denis Quilley (Actor).

R:
Jack Ragotzy (Actor & Director); Vera Ralston (Actress); Teddy Randazzo (Songwriter); Maurice Rapf (Screenwriter); Andrew Ray (Actor); Gene Anthony Ray (Dancer & Actor); Bill Reddick (Actor); Noel Redding (Bass Guitarist); Gordon Reid (Actor); Tam Reid (Singer); Burt Rhodes (Composer); Madlyn Rhue (Actress); Esther Ridgeway (Singer); Greg Ridley (Bassist, Singer & Songwriter); Leni Riefenstahl (Filmmaker); Dorothy Ritter (Actress); John Ritter (Actor); Margaret Hill Ritter (Author & Actress); Carlos Rivas (Actor); Rex Robbins (Actor); Malcolm Roberts (Singer); Patricia Roc (Felicia Riese) (Actress); Robert Rockwell (Actor); Matt Roe (Writer & Actor); Fred McFeely Rogers (Composer, Lyricist & Author); Guy Rolfe (Actor); George Roper (George Francis Furnival) (Comedian); Kay Rose (Dancer); Manuel Rosenthal (Conductor & Composer); Dave Rowberry Musician & Member of "The Animals"); William Roy (Songwriter, Musical Director & Former Child Actor); Janice Rule (Actress); Neil Russell (Actor); William Russo (Composer & Bandleader).

S:
Laura Sadler (Actress); Oliver Sain (Musician); Ian Samwell (Songwriter); Jeremy Sandford (Writer); John Sanford (Julian Lawrence Shapiro) (Writer); Yvonne Sanson (Actress); Mongo Santamaria (Percussionist & Bandleader); Peter Saunders (Theatre Manager & Producer); David Schall (Actor); Carl Schenkel (Director); John Schlesinger (Director); Peter Schrum (Actor); Zachary Schwartz (Animator); Bernard Schwarz (Producer); Jan Scott (Art Director & Production Designer); Martha Scott (Actress); Compay Segundo (Francisco Repilado) (Singer); Albert Sendrey (Composer & Arranger); Ray Serra (Actor); Charles Shannon (Writer & Actor); Cyril Shaps (Actor); John Shaw (Opera Singer); Peter Shaw (Actor & TV Producer); Barry Sheene (Motorcycle Racer); Gladys Shelley (Songwriter); Gerry Shephard (Guitarist & Singer/Songwriter); Carol Shields (Novelist); Lloyd Shirley (TV Producer); Tony Shyrane (Radio & Television Producer); Jim Siedow (Actor); Serge Silberman (Producer); Johnny Silver (Singer & Actor); Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon) (Singer, Pianist & Composer); Richard Simmons (Actor); Howard "Sandman" Sims (Entertainer); Penny Singleton (Actress); Michael Small (Composer); Jack Smight (Director); Bill Smillie (Actor); Elliott Smith (Singer); Alberto Sordi (Actor); Bernard Spear (Actor); Robert Stack (Actor); Florence Stanley (Actress); Edwin Starr (Charles Edwin Hatcher) (Singer); William Steig (Author & Illustrator); Elaine Steinbeck (Actress); David Stern III (Novelist and Creator of "Francis the Talking Mule"); Gary Stewart (Singer/Songwriter); Henry Ellis "Redd" Stewart (Musician, Singer & Songwriter); Dick St John (Singer); Walter Stocker (Actor); Peter Stone (Screenwriter); Philip Stone (Actor); Charles Stubbs (Former Child Actor); Jean Sullivan (Actress); William Swetland (Actor).

T:
Andre Tanker (Musician); Daniel Taradash (Screenwriter); Dewey Terry (Singer/Songwriter); Lynne Thigpen (Actress); Reg Thomason (Actor); Tommy Thompson (Musician & Composer); Tony Thompson (Drummer); Floyd Tillman (Singer, Songwriter & Guitarist); Peter Tinniswood (Playwright & Novelist); Ed Townsend (Composer); Les Tremayne (Actor); Claude Trenier (Singer); Leopoldo Trieste (Actor); Margaret Trigg (Actress); Marie Trintignant (Actress); Rosalyn Tureck (Musician); Othar Turner (Bluesman); Wesley Tuttle (Country Singer); Stephanie Tyrell (Songwriter).

U:
Leon Uris (Novelist).

V:
Billy Van (Comedian); Titos Vandis (Actor); Tibor Varga (Musician); Nedra Volz (Actress);

W:
Alexander Walker (Film Critic & Writer); Zena Walker (Actress); Kent Walton (Kenneth Walton Beckett) (TV Sports Commentator & Compere); Donald Ward (Poet); Skip Ward (Actor & Producer); Michael Wayne (Film Producer); Kellie Waywire (Actress); Elisabeth Welch (Actress & Singer); Peter West (TV Presenter & Sports Commentator); Speedy West (Guitarist); Nancy Whiskey (Anne Wilson) Singer & Guitarist); Barry White (Singer); Stephen Whittaker (Actor & Director); Teddy Wilburn (Country Musician); David Williams (Writer); Malcolm Williamson (Composer & Master of the Queen's Music); Lionel Wilson (Voice Actor); Sloan Wilson (Writer); Kathleen Winsor (Writer); Ted Wood (Singer, Drummer and Member of "The New Temperance Seven"); Lesley Woods (Actress); Sheb Wooley (Singer/Songwriter & Actor); William Woolfolk (Novelist, Comic Book Author & TV Writer); George Wylie (Composer & TV Writer).

Y:
Jean Yanne (Actor); Philip Yordan (Screenwriter); Edward Young (Writer & Book Designer); Webster Young (Jazz Trumpeter).

Z:
Warren Zevon (Singer/Songwriter); Anne Ziegler (Singer); Paul Zindell (Playwright & Screenwriter); Vera Zorina (Ballerina & Actress).

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 10:55 AM

Wow. What a crop!!

If only we could have a comparable list of those who arrived inthe last year!


A

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 11:11 AM

Wow, what a list.

I wish I had that kind of time on my hands.

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 11:37 AM

God, I pray you give us a rest from the people whose obsessions with death and dying won't let the living or the dead rest in peace.

And if you are a most merciful god, which by appearances here at Mudcat doesn't seem likely, you will kill this ridiculous thread, or at the very least, consign it to the Mudcat slag heap down below in BS.

The musical relevance of cut-and-pasting nauseatingly long obituary of the year web pages is...???

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 11:56 AM

How about a list from this guy of everyone who is alive?

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 05:43 AM

Disagree. Well worth doing, even if you did include wankers like Malcolm Roberts.

But what was your criterion for inclusion. Why no mention of Alison Muir, for example. Not famous enough?

Subject: RE: Obit: Roll of Honour - 2003
From: Fiolar
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:21 AM

Thanks for all the helpful comments. Most newspapers and magazines usually have a list of those who have passed away, at the end of each year. The above list has nothing to do with obsession with death or otherwise but is one way of paying respect and affection to those who throughout their life have brought happiness in one form or another to many people. There is always going to be ones missing from the list and I did many an apology for any that I missed off.
There will always be people who complain about things and that is their right but as far as I know there is no gun pointed at their heads making them read postings they don't like.