Saeed Jaffrey - d. November 15th 2015

You dignified a continent
we only knew through archetypes
lit your scenes a different way, 
spoke in your own accent,
found a better passage.



Read about Saeed Jaffrey here

Cynthia Payne - d. November 15th 2015

In my Father's disorderly house
are many rooms; behind each door 
I hear the rustle of satin, the swish
of the crop, the cork leaving the bottle.

Read about Cynthia Payne here

Warren Mitchell - d. November 14th 2015

See, the trouble wiv actors
is they ain't real people.
They're all Jews or queers,
never done a day's work,
never changed nuffin'.

read about Warren Mitchell here

Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor - d. November 11th 2015

Ahead of the beat,

behind the beat,

missing the beat,

subbed, overdubbed,

drunk, sunk, out of time.

Read about Phil Taylor here

Andy White - d. November 9th 2015

Forget what madness followed;

when it really, really mattered,

you played to tempo, kept it tight,

packed the sticks, took the bus home.

Read about Andy White here

Allen Toussaint - d. November 10th 2015

The fortune teller said
a man will come,
a hurricane of song.
He'll take a melody, 
sweat out a rhythm,
make the levees sing.

Read about Allen Toussaint here

Colin Welland - d. November 2nd 2015

I remember those blue hills,
the emptying playing fields,
the hum of a squad car
in a new town.
I hear a voice on the wind;
the actor is coming.

Read about Colin Welland here

Philip French - d. October 27th 2015

Such acuteness of vision

- you saw more

in the dappled dark

of a private screening

than I could ever see

in daylight’s

broad cinemascope.

Read about Philip French here

Maureen O'Hara - d. October 25th 2015

So many perfect frames
- your skyblown veil,
you in that field, eyes 
brimful of the Duke. 
You were always 
the greater part of a miracle

Read about Maureen O'Hara here

Peter Baldwin - d. October 23rd 2015

Whether we play ourselves
or against type, some of us 
must take your role; little 
Englander, little islander, little 
beyond a diverting shadow.

Read about Peter Baldwin

Gordon Honeycombe - d. October 9th 2015

...the picture shifts

from 405 lines

to 625; from black 

and white to black,

the newscaster

becomes the story.

Read about Gordon Honeycombe here

Denis Healey - d. October 3rd 2015

You were Labour

as in 'workers',
Socialist

as in 'principled',

old school

with no need of a tie.

Read about Denis Healey here

Jackie Collins - d. September 19th 2015

Bring me shoes, a Benz,

a boob job. Dial me 

a mogul, a bastard, 

a stud. I'll write you

a bitch, shallow/deep as

a Bel Air swimming pool.

Read about Jackie Collins here

Brian Sewell - d. September 19th 2015

Death, unutterably...vulgar,
was just the prolegomenon
to an ethereal afterlife, 
exquisite,  
ineffably...recherché.

Read about Brian Sewell here

Judy Carne - d. September 3rd 2015

I saw a girl.
Where did you see the girl?
In beautiful downtown Burbank.
What kind of girl?
An It Girl,
a sock-it-to-me girl. 
Which girl? 
That girl.

Read about Judy Carne here

Rico Rodriguez - d. September 4th 2015

An alpha man

among Alpha Boys;

hornsman,

don't ever stop

your messing around.

Read about Rico Rodriguez here

Joy Beverley - d. August 31st 2015

O glamorous sister,

your post-war lustre,

from cat's whisker

to humming transistor,

now fades to a whisper.

Read about Joy Beverley and her sisters here

Wes Craven - d. August 30th 2015

It was hard to tell 

where your movie ended

and deadly reality began,

but an invitation to Hell

has surely been extended

by your biggest fan.

Read about Wes Craven here

Stephen Lewis - d. August 12th 2015

In the decade

of our unmanning,

that difficult age,

the role you essayed

was a study in hamming

and impotent rage.

Read about Stephen Lewis here.

David Nobbs - d. August 9th 2015

Eleven minutes late;

escaped satire on the line

between Climthorpe 

and Purley Gate.

Read about David Nobbs here