As we start a new year we take a look at those actors and directors, movers and shakers that we lost over the past year so here’s 2023 In Remembrance……
2023 started with the loss of one of the great sex symbols of the big screen Raquel Welch. It was a tag that she struggled to throw off for much of her career and we take a look at her life HERE
March 2023 saw the passing of Tom Sizemore an actor whose bad boy on screen persona seemed to reflect his troubled personal life. He had real on screen charisma and was magnetic on screen and we take a look at his life HERE
Film and theatre lost one of the great British actors with the passing of Glenda Jackson. A phenomenal talent with a social conscience that saw her step away from acting for some years to become a labour MP. She returned to acting after several years away and made her last film with the iconic Sir Michael Caine in The Great Escaper and we look back at her life and career HERE
Best known for Catch-22 actor Alan Arkin would carve out a career as a respected actor coming to the attention of a new generation with his role in Little Miss Sunshine. A man of quite some esteem we take a look at his career HERE
One of the giants of directing was William Friedkin whose career would forever be defined by The Exorcist, a film that made horror respectable for the studios after earning a huge number of Oscar nominations including Best Film. Previously he had helmed The French Connection with its defining car chase but those twin achievement proved impossible to top let alone equal and we take a look at his life and career here as the man remained as opinionated as ever right to the end. Here’s our tribute to him
Another giant of British acting was the sad loss of Michael Gambon who, for children, would always be remembered for the Harry Potter films and for adults it would be The Singing Detective. Always quite dismissive of his own talents we take a look at the man and his life HERE
Not long after the loss of Michael Gambon was his contemporary Joss Ackland another talent who due to age had stepped back from a prolific and award winning career in projects as varied as Lethal Weapon 2 and the BAFTA award winning ‘Shadowlands’. His life and work is examined HERE
Ryan O’Neal was the actor whose heyday was arguably the 1970’s with box office hit ‘Love Story’ and worked with Kubrick in the under rated ‘Barry Lyndon’. A very troubled man with his own demons he never really was able to reclaim his career heights and we take a look at his life HERE
Passing away in the last days of 2023 was the beloved Tom Wilkinson best known for many for The Full Monty but who had earned himself two Oscar nominations plus 6 BAFTAS noms too. A modest man in real life we take a look at his career HERE
There are others but those are the most prominent of 2023 In Remembrance
related feature: We chat with actors and directors here….
