John Nolan obit

Tributes to John Nolan - actor, director and a free spirit

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John Nolan (22 May 1938 – 11 April 2026) was a British actor, known for his role as Nick Faunt in Shabby Tiger, Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in Batman Begins, the Gotham Tonight promotional segments for The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.

Nolan was born in London, England, on 22 May 1938. He has been married to Kim Hartman since 1975; he has a son and a daughter. He was the paternal uncle of brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan.

He had a recurring role in his nephew Jonathan Nolan's television series Person of Interest as John Greer, a mysterious British figure connected with Decima Technologies and the main villain from seasons three to five of the show.

Nolan died on 11 April 2026, aged 87.

Classically-trained London-born character actor and stage director, the paternal uncle of film makers Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan. In 1968, he played Clitus in Julius Caesar with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, followed by two years of residency. He subsequently appeared in most of the Bard's plays, including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. Nolan has also played the lead in the Dostoyevsky Trilogy for the Bristol Old Vic (1980-81) and latterly essayed the alcoholic Doc in Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings at the Arcola Theatre in the East End of London.

Nolan made his screen debut in 1967. His first pivotal role in that medium was as the eponymous hero in a famous BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1970). This led to more regular TV work, including as Geoff Hardcastle, one of the Doomwatch (1970) department, and as the artist Nick Faunt in the miniseries Shabby Tiger (1973), set in 1930s Manchester. In addition to diverse TV guest spots, Nolan portrayed Wayne Enterprise board member Douglas Fredericks on the big screen in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). As a voice actor, he has narrated documentaries and appeared in ads on TV and radio.

His most high profile screen role to date has been that of ex MI-6 agent John Greer, primary antagonist (from season two) in the compelling sci-fi drama Person of Interest (2011). Greer was the operational head of Decima Technologies, a sinister covert organisation serving Samaritan, an artificially intelligent (but seriously flawed) mass surveillance computer system. The show was created by John's nephew Jonathan, according to whom "the best bad guys are always English. That's just kind of a rule. And so my uncle came on board in exactly the same fashion as all of these actors, as a memorable turn that became a longer story arc."

Since 1975, John Nolan has been married to Kim Hartman, best known on TV for her role as the manipulative seductress Helga Geerhart in the popular BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982).

 

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Mike Westbrook obit

Mike Westbrook obituary

Acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader who was one of the most significant figures in the history of British jazz 

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As Ronnie Scott’s Old Place – the original basement club on Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown – prepared to close its doors for the final time on 25 May 1968, the last musicians to take the stand were the 10 young members of Mike Westbrook’s Concert Band.

Recruited from a variety of backgrounds, they formed the vehicle with which their leader had begun to demonstrate his gift for slotting together elements of jazz from various periods and styles, filtering them all through his own sensibility to produce something thoroughly stirring, definitely contemporary and highly original. A capacity audience had queued all the way from the club’s entrance to Shaftesbury Avenue, and stayed on at the end to applaud the work of a musician on his way to becoming one of the most significant and productive figures in the history of British jazz.

That was just one of the countless memorable moments in the long career of Mike Westbrook, who has died aged 90. While studying in Plymouth in the 1950s, he had begun by assembling a band that called itself a workshop, a designation used by other jazz musicians of the era, particularly those keen to find new ways of negotiating the relationship between composition and improvisation.

And that, in a sense, became the permanent condition of Westbrook’s music, whether he was performing his settings of William Blake’s poetry, adapting the compositions of Duke Ellington – his first and forever hero – and the songs from the Beatles’ Abbey Road. He collaborated on theatre pieces with John Fox and the Welfare State, led his brass band through the streets of French villages, working with his second wife, the singer and librettist Kate Westbrook, and performed his arrangements of Rossini’s arias and overtures at the Albert Hall in 1992, in the first jazz concert to be incorporated into the main programme of the BBC Proms.

Although he was English, and it was on British stages that he first came to prominence, there was a feeling that Westbrook was more profoundly appreciated elsewhere.

In 1984 two French jazz festivals, in Amiens and Angoulême, jointly commissioned the suite On Duke’s Birthday, his celebration of Ellingtonia. In the summer of 1992, the local jazz association of Catania in Sicily organised a Mike Westbrook music festival, flying in a 25-piece ensemble to perform his music over three days on the terrace of a baroque palazzo. The Rossini arrangements would receive a kind of homecoming in 2022, when performed by his last big band, the Uncommon Orchestra, at the 18th-century Teatro Rossini in Lugo, in the province of Ravenna.

In his final years he occasionally gave intimate solo piano recitals in which, for an unbroken hour, sometimes two, he would range through gospel tunes, folk songs, pop ballads and jazz standards, revealing his inclusive and humanistic view of music.

Gentle reshapings of Mood Indigo, My Way, As Time Goes By, Skylark, Monk’s Mood, She Loves You, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat and You Make Me Feel Brand New would form a continuous tapestry, exposing new shadings and perspectives at every turn, played without irony and from the heart.

Born in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Mike was the son of Philip Westbrook, who worked in banking and was an amateur percussionist, and Vera (nee Butler), a piano teacher. Imbued by them with a love of music and theatre, he was brought up in Torquay and Plymouth and educated at Kelly college, Tavistock.

In his teens he became fascinated by the recordings of Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller, which provided him with a grounding in jazz tradition that would underpin all his music, even at its most experimental. The trumpet was his first instrument (and later he would occasionally play the tenor horn and tuba in his bands), but he switched to the piano early on, teaching himself to play and to read music.

His training in accountancy was interrupted by national service, after which he began studying painting at Plymouth Art College. It was at the town’s arts centre that his first band was assembled: an octet including a young soprano and baritone saxophonist named John Surman, a prodigy who would become Westbrook’s primary featured soloist.

In 1963, having worked for a while as a scenic artist at Westward TV, he moved to London, continuing his studies at Hornsey School of Art. He and Surman were soon joined by the alto saxophonist Mike Osborne, the trombonist Malcolm Griffiths, the bassist Harry Miller and the drummer Alan Jackson, in a sextet that began to attract attention.

When Ronnie Scott, having moved his club to a new location, found himself with 18 months left of a lease on his former premises, he invited Westbrook and his band to take up residence at the Old Place, giving them the chance to build an audience and establish a reputation. On other nights Westbrook would appear with different musicians at the Little Theatre Club in Covent Garden, where he absorbed important new directions in free improvisation.

In these surroundings he could explore and shape the material for the extended pieces that would become the albums Celebration (1967), Release (1968) and Marching Song (1969). All three suites featured expanded versions of the core band, demonstrating Westbrook’s burgeoning artistic ambitions, and were recorded by the producer Peter Eden for Deram, Decca’s “progressive” subsidiary label, at a time when major record companies were still occasionally taking a chance on young jazz musicians.

Yet it would quickly become apparent that Westbrook was not content to inhabit such a limited world or conform to the expectations of its gatekeepers. After an Arts Council grant of £500 enabled him to give up his teaching job and turn professional, and Surman had left to base himself in Belgium, the premiere of a further extended piece, Metropolis, at the Mermaid theatre was followed by a collaboration with John Fox and the Welfare State troupe on an ambitious multimedia work called Earthrise, which received its first performance at the same venue in 1969. The introduction of Blake into Westbrook’s repertoire came about when Adrian Mitchell invited him to contribute the music to Tyger, a celebration of the visionary poet’s work, first performed at the New theatre in 1971.

By now the rhythms and timbres of rock were finding their way into Westbrook’s music, signalled by the presence of the guitarists Chris Spedding, Gary Boyle and Brian Godding, along with voices, at first that of Norma Winstone, on an album titled Love Songs (1970), a suite inspired by the poems of Westbrook’s first wife, Caroline Menis. In 1972 Westbrook’s working band was renamed Solid Gold Cadillac, and recorded two albums for RCA featuring the singer and trumpeter Phil Minton.

Then the group changed shape to become the Brass Band, which toured throughout Europe and occasionally merged with the rock group Henry Cow and the folk singer Frankie Armstrong to form the Orkestra.

In 1974 Westbrook was commissioned by Radio Sweden to write a major piece featuring Surman. He began its outlines while spending time in Leeds, where the painter, singer, composer and librettist Kate Barnard, his future second wife, was teaching at the art college. The title of the composition, Citadel/Room 315, referred to the room in a tower block where Westbrook worked on the piece, which was first performed in Stockholm and then recorded with his British orchestra for RCA.

Kate, whom he married in 1976, became a constant presence, an equal partner in many of their projects, singing their original songs and settings of lyrics from many sources, including the works of Goethe, Lorca, Rimbaud, Masefield and Siegfried Sassoon. She brought a powerful hint of Weimar-era cabaret to such works as Mama Chicago, The Serpent Hit and Art Wolf, dedicated to the 18th-century German landscape painter Caspar Wolf.

As a duo, in 1997 they recorded Love Or Infatuation, an album of songs by Friedrich Hollaender, the film composer who wrote Falling in Love Again for Marlene Dietrich. With the saxophonist Chris Biscoe, the Westbrooks formed a trio that would tour and record for 40 years.

In 1980 Westbrook composed the music for Caught on a Train, a BBC TV drama written by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen. A saxophone concerto for John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, titled Bean Rows and Blues Shots, received its premiere in 1992. A concert version of Coming Through Slaughter, his opera based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel about the New Orleans cornetist Buddy Bolden, was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994.

The major orchestral works, some of them incorporating classical musicians alongside Westbrook’s own bands, continued to flow. The Cortège, with Kate and Minton delivering texts in French, Italian, Spanish and German, was first heard at the Bracknell jazz festival in 1979 before evolving during subsequent performances throughout the UK and around Europe.

It was followed by A Young Person’s Guide to the Jazz Orchestra (also titled After Smith’s Hotel), presented at Snape Maltings in 1983, Big Band Rossini, originally commissioned by North German Radio in Hamburg (1986), London Bridge Is Broken Down, a meditation on Europe’s troubled history since the first world war (1987), The Orchestra of Smith’s Academy (1992), and Chanson Irresponsable (2001), commissioned by BBC Radio 3.

A Bigger Show took shape in 2015 with the 22-piece Uncommon Orchestra. Its personnel featured reunions with several early collaborators, including the saxophonist Lou Gare and the trumpeter Dave Holdsworth, alongside some of the musicians the Westbrooks had encountered after they made their home in Dawlish on the Devon coast in 2004.

The much-loved Blake settings were continually revised and extended over a period of 50 years, gathered together under the titles Bright As Fire, Glad Day and The Westbrook Blake for concerts in venues ranging from churches in New York and Moscow to St James’s, Piccadilly, where, in 1757, the poet was baptised. In 2023 they were performed by a group of Norwegian musicians at the Lillehammer jazz festival.

With his final lineup, the seven-piece Band of Bands, Westbrook took part in a private concert for friends in Dawlish on a sunlit May afternoon in 2024. He played only a little, sitting back to listen as Kate, Biscoe and his fellow saxophonist Pete Whyman and the virtuoso accordionist Karen Street were featured in a rendering of music old and new, as ever suffused with the spirits of his great predecessors – Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk – but always clearly the work of a man who brought to his chosen idiom an open-hearted vision based on the principles of social justice, a fondness for barrier-testing adventure and a commitment to the essentially collaborative nature of jazz. A final performance of the Westbrook Blake took place at Blackheath Halls a few days before Christmas 2025.

“Being a jazz musician is for life,” he once said. “There’s no retirement, no pension. And there’s always the lure of the next gig, the next project, which is going to be your best yet.”

He was appointed OBE in 1988.

Kate survives him, as do the two children, Guy and Joanna, of his first marriage, which ended in divorce, and three stepchildren, Josie, Clio and Jason.

 Mike (Michael John David) Westbrook, composer, bandleader and pianist, born 21 March 1936; died 11 April 2026

Hüsamettin Cindoruk obit

Hüsamettin Cindoruk has passed away.

 

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Former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Hüsamettin Cindoruk, passed away at the age of 93 in the hospital where he was receiving treatment.

Born in 1933, former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Hüsamettin Cindoruk has passed away.

HE HAD BEEN IN INTENSIVE CARE FOR A LONG TIME

Cindoruk was admitted to Koç University Hospital on December 25, 2025, after his oxygen saturation dropped at home. Hüsamettin Cindoruk, who was treated in the intensive care unit, passed away today.

WHO IS HÜSAMETTİN CİNDORUK?

The experienced politician, whose full name is Ahmet Hüsamettin Cindoruk, was born in İzmir in 1933.

He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1954 and started practicing law in 1955.

He began his political career in the youth branches of the Democrat Party during his youth. In 1958, he was among the founders of the Freedom Party.

On May 14, 1985, he was elected as the Chairman of the True Path Party at the Grand Congress. After leaving the chairmanship to Süleyman Demirel, he was elected as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between November 16, 1991, and October 1, 1995.

Following the death of President Turgut Özal on April 17, 1993, he assumed the presidency temporarily from April 17 to May 16, 1993.

During Tansu Çiller's tenure as the leader of the DYP, he left the True Path Party and founded the Democratic Turkey Party. After the party failed to surpass the electoral threshold in the 1999 general elections, he resigned from the party leadership.

On May 16, 2009, he was elected as the chairman of the Democratic Party. He played an active role in the merger process of the Democratic Party and the Motherland Party; the two parties united under the Democratic Party on October 31, 2009. He remained in this position until January 2011.

Cindoruk, who was married to Dilek Cindoruk and was the father of three children, was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Koç University Hospital in Istanbul after falling ill at home on December 28, 2025. Hüsamettin Cindoruk passed away on April 11, 2026.

Peter Terry obit

RIP: 'Binnerlanders' and 'Generations' Actor Peter Terry Dead at 75 Read 

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Talented South African actor Peter Terry, who has starred on TV shows such as Egoli: Place of Gold, Generations, and Scandal!, has died The Binnelanders and Rockville actor passed away on Friday, 10 April 2026, at the age of 75 South Africans and fans of the thespian took to social media this weekend to pay tribute to the actor.

 The family of legendary Scandal! and Generations actor Peter Terry has confirmed his passing in a statement on social media. The actor, poet, and voice artist is famously known for his role as Ivan Jones in Binnelanders, where he starred opposite the late Jonathan Pienaar. Terry also starred alongside late Binnelanders actor Phillip C. Henn on the popular Afrikaans TV show. The actor's daughter, Elizabeth Zacharie, confirmed on her Facebook account on Friday, 10 April 2026, that her father had passed away.

"It is with deep sadness that we announce our beloved Peter Terry, father, husband, and friend, passed away this morning. ​My mom Annette, my sister Sarah, and I are incredibly devastated but know that he is free of pain and suffering. ​If you have capacity, please light a candle for him and hold him close in your thoughts. ​With love, The Terry Family." Netwerk reported on Friday, 10 April 2026, that Mark Sage, who is the marketer for Pieter Thorien Theatre, confirmed that the actor was hospitalised for a routine operation but fell ill due to complications. Actor and director Alywyn Swart shared with the publication that previous medical ailments caught up with Terry, who had cancer. There were reportedly complications with his surgery, where he contracted an infection and was due for another surgery. "His kidneys, heart, and lungs started to give him problems," says Swart. The legendary actor and playwright leaves behind his wife, his daughters, and his granddaughter. Briefly News will give an update on the actor's memorial and funeral services soon.

 

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South Africans pay tribute to the actor Lucky Mqoboli said: "I am devastated by the passing of Mr. Peter Terry today. I am beyond sad. What a loss for the industry. It was an honour working with you on stage. My deepest condolences to you and your family in this dark hour. Let the song be a healer. I will miss your birthday wishes on my Facebook wall and in my inbox. It's a curtain call. Damm!" Dianne Simpson replied: "Peter Terry. What can I say that so many have not said already? You rest in beautiful peace now, Gentle Sir. I shall miss you soooo very much, ‘you old dog', and just all the support and belief you had in me! You seriously were sunshine - your dry, cynical, hysterical quips made my day!" Karen Nunan reacted: "Ah, my friend! I’m so very sorry for your huge loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this very sad and difficult time. Sending you a big hug and lots of love. It was a privilege to know your special dad." Read more: https://briefly.co.za/entertainment/celebrities/239367-binnerlanders-generations-actor-peter-terry-dead-75-cancer/

Browning Nagle obit

Louisville football legend Browning Nagle dies

 

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Former Louisville quarterback Browning Nagle died on Friday following a bout with colon cancer. He was 57-years-old.

Nagle, who played two seasons at West Virginia before transferring to U of L, was the quarterback of Louisville’s 1990 team, one of the best in school history. He led the Cardinals to a 10-1-1 record and was named the MVP of U of L’s 34-7 Fiesta Bowl trouncing of Alabama. He threw for a Fiesta Bowl record 451 yards and three touchdowns in the game.

After college, Nagle was taken 34th overall by the New York Jets in the 1991 NFL Draft. He spent four seasons with the Jets before playing two seasons each with the Indianapolis Colts and the Atlanta Falcons.

Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm, who became U of L’s starting QB after Nagle’s graduation, shared some thoughts about the news on Twitter.

Nagle’s wife, Michelle, also posted on Instagram about his passing.

Nagle was selected No. 34 overall by the Jets in the 1991 NFL Draft, directly after Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre as a potential heir to Ken O'Brien under center.

He played three seasons with New York and was the team's Week 1 starter in 1992. He went 3-10 that campaign with 2,280 passing yards, seven touchdowns and 17 interceptions, after which he sat behind Boomer Esiason during the '93 season.

"Browning was a great guy," Esiason said Friday, per the team website. "He had an infectious laugh and was so much fun to be around. We often competed against each other while also showing respect for one another. I will always remember the laughter and infectious spirit Browning had and how much he enjoyed out-driving me on the golf course. May he rest in peace knowing he lived an impactful life."

Following his release from the Jets in 1994, Nagle spent a season as a backup with the Indianapolis Colts, for whom he went 1-0, and two seasons with the Atlanta Falcons.

Nagle's brief NFL career was preceded by three seasons spent at Louisville, where he started two years and was named the 1991 Fiesta Bowl Most Valuable Player after leading the Cardinals to a 34-7 victory over Alabama during his final collegiate game.

"We are saddened by the passing of Browning Nagle, former Fiesta Bowl MVP quarterback and Louisville great," the University of Louisville said in a statement released on social media. "His leadership on the field and passion for the game left a lasting mark on our program. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and teammates during this difficult time."

Nagle played a season each for the Orlando Predators and Buffalo Destroyers of the Arena Football League from 1999-2000, throwing for 74 touchdowns.

Nagle began his college career at West Virginia University the same year as Major Harris. When it became clear that West Virginia would go with Harris and an option offense, Nagle transferred to the University of Louisville and played for Howard Schnellenberger.

Eliot Engel obit

Eliot Engel, former House Foreign Affairs chair, dies at 79

 He was not on the list.

Former Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has died at the age of 79, according to a statement shared on social media by a family member.

Engel’s family said that the former congressman, who represented parts of New York City and its suburbs for more than three decades, passed away Friday “surrounded by family and loved ones” in the Bronx.

“During his over 44 years in public service, Eliot Engel fought tirelessly for his constituents at home and for peace and security around the world,” the family said. “We love and miss him dearly.”

Engel was born in Bronx County, N.Y., on Feb. 18, 1947, and served as a New York state assemblyman from 1977 until his election to Congress in 1988, according to a congressional biography. 

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins praised Engel’s career in a statement, calling him a “fierce advocate” for his constituents in Westchester and the Bronx.

“His legacy is one of commitment, conviction and service,” Jenkins said. “He understood that public office is a responsibility to speak up, to stand firm and to deliver for the people who entrusted him with their voice.”

His 16-term tenure came to an end in 2020, when he lost the Democratic primary to former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman, one of several progressive challengers to oust longtime incumbents that election cycle. Bowman went on to win the seat in the general election that year.

Engel’s final years in office saw him helm the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, in which House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said he “consistently championed humanitarian development and diplomacy alongside a strong defense that made America and the world safer.”

“He was a gentle giant of a legislator, a trusted friend and a dear colleague to so many of us in the New York delegation and House Democratic Caucus family,” Jeffries said in a statement on Engel’s death. “We miss him deeply and mourn with his loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who represents the south Bronx, hailed Engel in a statement on the social platform X as “one of the greatest champions” the borough had in Congress.

“He was a trailblazer for the Bronx in Washington, and a fierce advocate for Kosovo and the Albanian community at a time when few others were paying attention,” Torres wrote. “My deepest condolences go to his family and all who loved him.”

Angela Pleasence obit

Angela Pleasence dead: Coronation Street and Casualty star dies aged 84

Former Coronation Street and Casualty star Angela Pleasence has died at the age of 84, her talent agency has shared in a heartbreaking statement

 

She was not on the list.

A Coronation Street star has died. Angela Pleasance, the daughter of acting legend Donald and his wife, Miriam Raymond, was 84.

Over the course of her career, Angela, from Chapeltown in Sheffield, starred as Monica Sutton on ITV's Coronation Street, before going on to appear in the likes of The Possessed, The Expert, Casualty, The Bill, Doctor Who, during which she played Queen Elizabeth I, and the Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures.

In a statement shared on social media, her agency said: "We are very sad to announce the passing of our dear client, Angela Pleasance. We were honoured to represent Angela, who built a career of quiet distinction spanning more than five decades. After training at RADA, she made her stage debut in 1964 as ‘Titania’ in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

"She went on to perform at the National Theatre and in the West End in productions including Ghetto, The Hothouse, and The Cherry Orchard.

"Angela also became closely associated with classic British horror, delivering memorable performances in films such as From Beyond the Grave, The Godsend, and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. In these roles, she brought remarkable depth and unease to complex, often enigmatic characters.

"Alongside her film work, Angela remained a constant presence on British television, with credits ranging from period drama to modern series such as Doctor Who and Happy Valley. She was also well known for her portrayal of Catherine Howard in the BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

"While never defined by any one genre, her contribution to the British industry remains a distinctive and much-admired part of her legacy. Our thoughts are with her family at this very sad time."

Tributes have since poured in, with one sad fan writing: "Great talent great loss. Condolences for family and friends. A beautiful actress."

"She was fabulous, very sad to hear this. Rip," said another. While a third penned: "So sad to hear of this. Condolences to her family. She was a wonderful and talented actress."

"Very sad to hear this. She was a wonderful actress," commented another. A friend of the late star typed: "Oh my goodness. I am so sorry to read this. Angela was a great friend of a friend of mine, and happy occasions of shared meals and laughter."

Born in South Yorkshire, Angela studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making her stage debut. Her first major movie role was in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973), before she appeared in the films From Beyond the Grave and Symptoms.

Her last movie credit saw her play Mother in the 2011 film Your Highness, alongside Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Theroux. While Angela's last television acting role was in 2016, playing Winnie in two episodes of Happy Valley.

Actress

Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley (2014)

Happy Valley

8.5

TV Series

Winnie

2016

2 episodes

 

Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, and Rupert Penry-Jones in Whitechapel (2009)

Whitechapel

7.8

TV Series

Louise Iver

2013

6 episodes

 

John Leeson, Elisabeth Sladen, Yasmin Paige, Daniel Anthony, Tommy Knight, Sinead Michael, and Anjli Mohindra in The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)

The Sarah Jane Adventures

7.5

TV Series

Mystic Mags

2011

1 episode

 

Natalie Portman, James Franco, and Danny McBride in Your Highness (2011)

Your Highness

5.5

Mother

2011

 

Casualty (1986)

Casualty

6.2

TV Series

CatherineSonia

1993–2009

2 episodes

 

David Suchet in Poirot (1989)

Poirot

8.6

TV Series

Nanny

2008

1 episode

 

Christopher Eccleston, Peter Capaldi, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who (2005)

Doctor Who

8.5

TV Series

Queen Elizabeth

2007

1 episode

 

The Gigolos (2006)

The Gigolos

5.4

Joy

2006

 

Doctors (2000)

Doctors

4.5

TV Series

Amy Edgeworth

2006

1 episode

 

Waverley (2005)

Waverley

8.4

Short

Waverley

2005

 

Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie in Marple (2004)

Marple

7.9

TV Series

Miss Hartnell

2004

1 episode

 

Colin Blumenau, Nula Conwell, Peter Ellis, Trudie Goodwin, Jon Iles, Gary Olsen, Eric Richard, John Salthouse, Tony Scannell, Jeff Stewart, and Mark Wingett in The Bill (1984)

The Bill

6.7

TV Series

MarthaMrs. Sadler

1995–2003

2 episodes

 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, and Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (2002)

Gangs of New York

7.5

Woman Accomplice (as Angela Pleasance)

2002

 

Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (2001)

Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible

7.3

TV Series

Lizzy

2001

1 episode

 

The Search for John Gissing (2001)

The Search for John Gissing

6.4

Johanna Frielduct

2001

 

Cider with Rosie (1998)

Cider with Rosie

6.4

TV Movie

Crabby

1998

 

Annette Badland, Neil Dudgeon, and Nick Hendrix in Midsomer Murders (1997)

Midsomer Murders

7.9

TV Series

Doris Winstanley

1998

1 episode

 

Declan Mulholland in The Pig's Family (1997)

The Pig's Family

Short

Rosy

1997

 

Chloë Victoria Annett and Michael French in Crime Traveller (1997)

Crime Traveller

7.2

TV Series

Mrs Beavis

1997

1 episode

 

The Shaman

7.6

Short

Shaman

1996

 

September (1996)

September

5.9

TV Movie

Lottie Carstairs

1996

 

The English Programme (1976)

The English Programme

4.0

TV Series

Anita Fitzpatrick

1994

3 episodes

 

Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

6.1

Louis' Sister

1991

 

Robin Weaver in Somewhere to Run (1989)

Somewhere to Run

8.1

TV Movie

Anita Fitzpatrick

1989

 

Stealing Heaven (1988)

Stealing Heaven

6.4

Sister Cecilia

1988

 

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

6.6

TV Mini Series

Clara (madwoman)

1986

2 episodes

 

Tracey Ullman, Dawn French, Joan Greenwood, Jennifer Saunders, and Ruby Wax in Girls on Top (1985)

Girls on Top

6.5

TV Series

R.S.C. Actress #2

1986

1 episode

 

Silas Marner (1985)

Silas Marner

7.3

TV Movie

Molly

1985

 

George C. Scott in A Christmas Carol (1984)

A Christmas Carol

7.8

TV Movie

Ghost of Christmas Past

1984

 

Nicholas Farrell and Sylvestra Le Touzel in Mansfield Park (1983)

Mansfield Park

6.7

TV Mini Series

Lady Bertram

1983

6 episodes

 

Alan Rickman in The Barchester Chronicles (1982)

The Barchester Chronicles

8.1

TV Mini Series

Mrs. Grantly

1982

7 episodes

 

Colin Blakely, Anna Cropper, and Maurice Denham in A Slight Ache (1967)

The Hothouse

7.6

TV Movie

Miss Cutts

1982

 

The Walls of Jericho (1981)

The Walls of Jericho

TV Mini Series

Elsie Inglis

1981

2 episodes

 

The Godsend (1980)

The Godsend

5.3

The Stranger

1980

 

Bryan Marshall in Murder at the Wedding (1979)

Murder at the Wedding

7.6

TV Mini Series

Pam Appleyard

1979

3 episodes

 

Les Miserables (1978)

Les Miserables

7.3

TV Movie

Fantine

1978

 

The Axe Murderer

Video

Melanie (voice)

1976

 

Jack Warner in Dixon of Dock Green (1955)

Dixon of Dock Green

6.9

TV Series

Alice Benfield

1976

1 episode

 

A Legacy (1975)

A Legacy

6.2

TV Series

Clara von FeldenClara von Bernin

1975

4 episodes

 

Churchill's People (1974)

Churchill's People

5.6

TV Series

Jorild

1975

1 episode

 

Play for Today (1970)

Play for Today

7.8

TV Series

Nell Hamer

1975

1 episode

 

Aquarius (1970)

Aquarius

6.5

TV Series

Jean

1974

1 episode

 

BBC Play of the Month (1965)

BBC Play of the Month

7.0

TV Series

Julia

1974

1 episode

 

Lorna Heilbron, Marie-Paule Mailleux, Angela Pleasence, and Peter Vaughan in Symptoms (1974)

Symptoms

6.4

Helen

1974

 

From Beyond the Grave (1974)

From Beyond the Grave

6.6

Emily Underwood (Segment 2 "An Act of Kindness")

1974

 

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

6.5

Trude

1973

 

The Love Ban (1973)

The Love Ban

4.7

Mick's Secretary

1973

 

Ros Drinkwater and Francis Matthews in Paul Temple (1969)

Paul Temple

7.0

TV Series

Betty Martin

1970

1 episode

 

The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

8.4

TV Mini Series

Catherine Howard

1970

2 episodes

 

The Ladies: A Double Bill

TV Movie

1969

 

Destiny of a Spy (1969)

Destiny of a Spy

7.2

TV Movie

Peace Girl

1969

 

The Wednesday Play (1964)

The Wednesday Play

7.3

TV Series

LizBeatrice Grayson

1969

2 episodes

 

Ann Bell and Peter Sallis in Plays of Today (1969)

Plays of Today

TV Series

Jackson

1969

1 episode

 

Marius Goring in The Expert (1968)

The Expert

8.0

TV Series

Tina

1969

1 episode

 

The Possessed (1969)

The Possessed

8.1

TV Mini Series

Marie Shatov

1969

2 episodes

 

Peter Adamson, Jean Alexander, Johnny Briggs, Margot Bryant, and Doris Speed in Coronation Street (1960)

Coronation Street

5.6

TV Series

Monica Sutton

1968

4 episodes

 

Judy Geeson, Vanessa Howard, Diane Keen, Adrienne Posta, Angela Scoular, and Sheila White in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

6.1

Scruffy Girl

1968

 

Donald Pleasence and Patricia Routledge in The Good & Faithful Servant (1967)

Seven Deadly Virtues

TV Series

Carol

1967

1 episode

 

Phillip Manikum and Christopher Matthews in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

TV Series

Maid

1967

1 episode

 

Reginald Marsh in Seven Deadly Sins (1966)

Seven Deadly Sins

TV Series

Eileen

1966

1 episode

 

Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960)

Armchair Mystery Theatre

6.6

TV Series

Ginny

1965

1 episode

 

Self

Symptoms: An Interview with Angela Pleasence

Video

Self

2016

 

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

6.6

Self

2016

 

Amicus: House of Horrors (2012)

Amicus: House of Horrors

6.8

Video

Self

2012

 

Heroes of Comedy (1992)

Heroes of Comedy

6.6

TV Series

Self

2003

1 episode

 

Call My Bluff (1965)

Call My Bluff

7.1

TV Series

Self

1985

2 episodes

 

There Go I

TV Series

Self - Presenter

1972

4 episodes

Harry Kim obit

Harry Kim has died

 

He was not on the list.

The musician Harry Kim, who had worked for many years as the leader of the horn sections for Phil Collins, lost his battle with cancer yesterday.

Harry Kim was born in August 1951. Early in his career, he played in various bands and with various musicians, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and The Temptations. He later joined the Phenix Horns, who made a name for themselves with Earth, Wind & Fire and went on several tours with Phil Collins. In the 1990s, he founded the Vine Street Horns, who continued to tour with Phil Collins.

Phil eventually commissioned Harry Kim to arrange the songs for his big band project in 1996 and 1998. Harry was also one of the driving musical forces behind the ceremony for the award of an honorary doctorate to Phil Collins at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in 2019.

More recently, Harry Kim had been battling cancer. He sadly lost this battle on 10 April, as his son confirmed via social media. Harry Kim was 74 years old.

With Harry Kim's passing, another important companion of Phil Collins has died.

Jackie Moore obit

Warriors Send Condolences to John "Jackie" Moore

 

He was not on the list.

The Golden State Warriors send condolences to the family of John “Jackie” Moore, who passed away earlier Thursday at the age of 93. Moore signed with the Philadelphia Warriors on February 15, 1955, and debuted with the club that same day, becoming the first Black player to appear in a game in franchise history.

Moore spent time with the Syracuse Nationals and Milwaukee Hawks before playing three seasons with the Warriors, where he helped Philadelphia win the 1956 NBA title. In 2018, Moore represented the 1956 team prior to Golden State’s championship ring ceremony in Oakland.

A native of Philadelphia, Moore was also the first Black athlete to play for the men’s basketball team at La Salle University. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame at both La Salle University and Overbrook High School.

He is survived by his daughters Felicienne Moore and Raushanah Qadree Muhsin (Luftee Muhsin), grandchildren Nasir Qadree (Chloe Louvouezo Qadree), Saquan Qadree, and Naomi Crowder, and great-grandchildren Nyla Collins, Zaire Louvouezo Qadree and Myel Gebreyohannes.

A 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) small forward from La Salle University, Moore played three seasons (1954–1957) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks, and Philadelphia Warriors. He averaged 2.7 points per game in his NBA career and won a league championship in 1956.

 

Moore died on April 9, 2026, at the age of 93

 

Career information

High school     Overbrook

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

College            La Salle (1951–1953)

Playing career 1954–1960

Position           Small forward

Number           14, 4

Career history

1954    Syracuse Nationals

1954    Milwaukee Hawks

1955–1957      Philadelphia Warriors

1957–1960      Sunbury Mercuries

Career highlights

NBA champion (1956)