In February, the world bid a fond farewell to a number of stars of the silver screen and the small screen. In brief, shown below, is my passing tribute to those stars who leave an indelible mark on the entertainment industry, and in particular the world of film and television. May you all Rest In Peace, and thanks for the memories . . . . Robert C. Jones, Dustin Diamond, Haya Harareet, Christopher Plummer, Harry Fielder, Giuseppe Rotunno, Rynagh O'Grady, Lynn Stalmaster, Christopher Pennock, Marcia Diamond, Martha Stewart, Alan Curtis, Ronald Pickup, Alan Robert Murray, Erica Watson and Johnny Briggs.
* Robert C. Jones - born 30th March 1936 and died 1st February 2021, aged 84. Jones was an American film Editor and Screenwriter who amassed thirty-two editing credits and three writing credits to his name over a career that began in 1955 on
'Untamed' as an uncredited apprentice Editor. His first credited role as Editor in his own right was in 1963 on
'A Child Is Waiting' for Director John Cassavetes and he would follow this up that same year for Stanley Kramer on
'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'. After this, his other film work took in the likes of
'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' in 1967 for Stanley Kramer again,
'Paint Your Wagon' in 1969 with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood,
'Love Story' in 1970 for Arthur Hiller,
'Shampoo' in 1975 for Hal Ashby,
'Bound for Glory' in 1976 also for Hal Ashby,
'Heaven Can Wait' in 1978 for Warren Beatty,
'Looking to Get Out' in 1982 for Hal Ashby again,
'See No Evil, Hear No Evil' in 1989 for Arthur Hiller again,
'Days of Thunder' in 1990 for Tony Scott,
'The Babe' in 1992 for Arthur Hiller once more,
'Indecent Proposal' in 1993 for Adrian Lyne,
'Love Affair' in 1994 for Glenn Gordon Caron,
'Bulworth' in 1998 for Warren Beatty once more,
'Crazy in Alabama' in 1999 for Antonio Banderas and
'Unconditional Love' in 2002 for P.J. Hogan being his final screen credit. His writing credits also took in
'Coming Home' in 1978 and for 1979's
'Being There' for which he was uncredited - both films Directed by Hal Ashby once more. Jones was the recipient of three award wins and seven nominations including an Oscar win for
'Coming Home' and three other Oscar nods for
'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World', 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' and
'Bound For Glory'.
* Dustin Diamond - born 7th January 1977, died 1st February 2021, aged 44. Diamond was an American Actor, three time Director and Producer and two time Writer. During his career he amassed fifty-one screen acting credits which launched in 1987 with him lending his voice in the animated TV movie
'Yogi's Great Escape'. His first big screen role came the following year in
'Big Top Pee-wee' and then
'Purple People Eater' later that same year. Other film roles followed, mostly in minor roles, including
'She's Out of Control' in 1989,
'Big Fat Liar' in 2002,
'Dickie Roberts : Former Child Star' in 2003,
'13th Grade' in 2005,
'Minor League : A Football Story' in 2010,
'Four Corners Road' and
'All Wifed Out' both in 2012,
'Scavenger Killers' in 2014,
'Bleeding Hearts' in 2015 with
'Joker's Wild' in 2016 being his final feature film appearance. In the meantime, his most famed role first launched on an unsuspecting public as Samuel 'Screech' Powers in
'Good Morning, Miss Bliss' in which he appeared in thirteen episodes in 1988 and '89. He would reprise the role in the TV movie
'Who Shrunk Saturday Morning?' in 1989, then
'Saved by the Bell : Hawaiian Style' in 1992, and then on eighty six episodes of
'Saved by the Bell' between 1989 and 1992.
'Saved by the Bell : The College Years' came next with nineteen episodes from 1993 to '94, the made for TV movie
'Saved by the Bell : Wedding in Las Vegas' in 1994, and finally on 130 episodes of
'Saved by the Bell : The New Class' from 1994 through to 2000.
* Haya Harareet - born 20th September 1931, died 3rd February 2021, aged 89. Harareet was an Israeli born Actress who totalled just nine screen acting credits to her twenty year career in the movie business launching in 1955 with
'Hill 24 Doesn't Answer' and she followed this up with more notable roles in
'Ben-Hur' in 1959 as Esther, Charlton Heston's love interest in the film, and then the British film
'The Secret Partner' in 1961 opposite Stewart Granger,
'The Interns' in 1962 opposite Michael Callan and Cliff Robertson finishing off with two Italian features in 1962 and 1964 -
'La leggenda di Fra Diavolo' and
'L'ultima carina' with the thirty-three minute short British film
'My Friend Jonathan' being her final screen appearance in 1974. At the time of her death, she was the last surviving credited cast member of
'Ben-Hur'.
* Christopher Plummer - born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on 13th December 1929 and died 5th February 2021, aged 91. Plummer was a Canadian Actor who amassed 217 screen acting credits to his name as well as sixteen Broadway theatre roles. His debut screen role came in 1953 in the TV series
'General Motors Presents' in their small screen adaptation of
'Othello' with his debut big screen role coming in 1958 in
'Stage Struck' for Director Sidney Lumet. He would follow this up with
'The Fall of the Roman Empire' in 1964 and then
'The Sound of Music' a year later opposite Julie Andrews and playing Captain Georg von Trapp. His subsequent big screen outings included
'Battle of Britain' in 1969 with Michael Caine,
'Waterloo' in 1970 with Orson Welles,
'The Return of the Pink Panther' in 1975 with Peter Sellers,
'The Man Who Would Be King' also in 1975 with Sean Connery,
'Hannover Street' in 1979 with Harrison Ford,
'Dreamscape' in 1984 with Dennis Quaid,
'Dragnet' in 1987 with Tom Hanks,
'Star Trek IV : The Undiscovered Country' in 1991 with William Shatner,
'Malcolm X' also in 1991 with Denzel Washington,
'Wolf' in 1994 with Jack Nicholson,
'Twelve Monkeys' in 1995 with Bruce Willis,
'The Insider' in 1999 with Russell Crowe,
'A Beautiful Mind' in 2001 with Russell Crowe again,
'National Treasure' in 2004 with Nicolas Cage,
'Syriana' in 2005 with George Clooney,
'The New World' also in 2005 with Colin Farrell,
'Inside Man' in 2006 with Denzel Washington,
'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' in 2009 with Heath Ledger,
'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' in 2011 with Daniel Craig,
'Hector and the Search for Happiness' in 2014 with Simon Pegg,
'The Forger' that same year with John Travolta,
'All the Money in the World' in 2017 with Mark Wahlberg,
'Knives Out' in 2019 with Daniel Craig,
'The Last Full Measure' in 2019 with Samuel L. Jackson with
'Heroes of the Golden Mask' currently filming and to which Plummer lent his voice talents to being his final screen performance. Plummer received various awards for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for the 2010 film
'Beginners' becoming the oldest person to win an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for
'All the Money in the World', making him the oldest person to be nominated in an acting category. All up Plummer notched up fifty award wins and another seventy-one nominations throughout his film, television and stage career spanning seven decades. He also performed classical music works with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of London, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver, and Halifax. He also made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's incidental music to
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
* Harry Fielder - born 26th April 1940, and died 6th February 2021, aged 80. Fielder was an English Actor who worked as an extra (often uncredited) in mostly British produced films and television. In his career spanning six decades he accumulated 279 screen acting roles playing mostly bit parts in films such as
'A Challenge for Robin Hood' his debut in 1967 followed by the likes of
'Billion Dollar Brain' that same year,
'2001 : A Space Odyssey', 'Oliver!' and
'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' all in 1968,
'Murphy's War' and
'Fiddler on the Roof' both in 1971,
'The MacKintosh Man' in 1973,
'Brannigan' in 1975,
'Star Wars : Episode IV - A New Hope' and
'The Spy Who Loved Me' both in 1977,
'Superman' in 1978,
'Quadrophenia' in 1979,
'The Long Good Friday', 'McVicar', 'The Elephant Man' and
'Superman II' all in 1980,
'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and
'An American Werewolf in London' both in 1981,
'Pink Floyd : The Wall' in 1982,
'Plenty' in 1985,
'Highlander' and
'Mona Lisa' both in 1986,
'First Knight' in 1995,
'Mission : Impossible' in 1996,
'The Jackal' and
'Incognito' both in 1997 with
'Entrapment' in 1999 being his final feature film role. He did take one final gig in 2013 lending his voice on the animated video
'Doctor Who and the Shada Man'. He also worked, again mostly in uncredited extras roles, on numerous television series. In 2012, Fielder published his autobiography
'Extra Extra, Read All About It! : My Life as a Film and TV Extra'.
* Giuseppe Rotunno - born 19th March 1923, died 7th February 2021, aged 97. Rotunno was an Italian Cinematographer whose six decade spanning career working in Italian, British and American cinema began in 1943 as an Assistant Camera Operator on the Italian feature film
'The Man with the Cross' and then on the French film as Camera Operator in 1954's
'Attila, the Hun' with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren. His debut as a Cinematographer came in 1955 in
'Scandal in Sorrento' with Sophia Loren again, and he would follow this up with a total eighty-two credits as Cinematographer over the decades that ensued on the likes of
'On the Beach' in 1959 with Gregory Peck,
'The Best of Enemies' in 1961 with David Niven,
'The Leopard' in 1963 with Burt Lancaster,
'The Bible : In the Beginning' for Director John Huston in 1966,
'Carnal Knowledge' in 1971 with Jack Nicholson,
'Man of La Mancha' in 1972 with Peter O'Toole,
'All That Jazz' in 1979 with Roy Scheider,
'The Assisi Underground' in 1985 with Ben Cross,
'Red Sonja' in 1985 also with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen,
'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' in 1988 for Director Terry Gilliam,
'Regarding Henry' in 1991 with Harrison Ford,
'Wolf' in 1994 with Jack Nicholson,
'Sabrina' in 1995 with Harrison Ford again, with
'The Stendahl Syndrome' in 1996 being his final feature film outing for Director Dario Argento. All up Rotunno notched up twenty-three award wins and a further eighteen nominations from around the awards and festivals circuit including an Oscar nod for
'All That Jazz' and a BAFTA win for that same film. He was the first non-American member admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers in 1966.
* Rynagh O'Grady - born sometime in 1954 and died 8th February 2021, aged 67. O'Grady was an Irish Actress and one time Writer and Director of the five minute 2013 documentary short film
'Sex on Legs'. She amassed forty-three screen acting credits throughout her career which began in 1973 in the TV series
'Play for Today' on an episode titled
'Blooming Youth'. Her first big screen role came with
'Let's Get Those English Girls' in 1976 followed by the likes of an uncredited role in 1978's
'The Stud' with
'Ascendancy' next in 1983 and then
'The Commitments' for Director Alan Parker in 1991, then
'Far and Away' for Director Ron Howard with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in 1992, with
'Moll Flanders' in 1996 with Morgan Freeman and Robin Wright, then
'Night Train' in 1998 with John Hurt.
'A Love Divided' in 1999,
'Breakfast on Pluto' for Director Neil Jordan and with Cillian Murphy followed in 2005,
'Dorothy Mills' in 2008 with Carise van Houten and
'Supervized' in 2019 with Beau Bridges and Tom Berenger in 2019 with the twenty-two minute short film
'Sins of the Werewolf' being her final screen role in 2020. She is perhaps best known for her work on six episodes of
'Father Ted' between 1995 and 1998.
* Lynn Stalmaster - born 17th November 1927 and died 12th February 2021, aged 93. Stalmaster was an American Casting Director, noted as being the first Casting Director to be granted an Academy Award, having been bestowed an Honorary Oscar in 2016. He was also the first Casting Director to receive credit on a separate card in the main titles of a feature film, starting with
'The Thomas Crown Affair' in 1968. His name has since appeared in the main titles of over 180 films, credited as 'Casting by Lynn Stalmaster'. His career launched originally as an Actor in the 1951 movie
'The Steel Helmet' but after just five credits to his name he gave this away after appearing in seven episodes of
'Big Town' between 1955 and 1957 to initially become a Production Assistant which thereafter morphed into a Casting Director role where he amassed a portfolio of a staggering 393 credits between 1955 and 2017. His big screen credits took in the likes of
'Pork Chop Hill' in 1959,
'West Side Story' in 1961,
'The Greatest Story Ever Told' in 1965,
'Cast a Giant Shadow' in 1966,
'In the Heat of the Night' in 1967,
'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' in 1969,
'They Call Me Mister Tibbs!' in 1970,
'Le Mans' and
'Fiddler on the Roof' both in 1971,
'Deliverance' and
'The Mechanic' both in 1972,
'Rollerball' in 1975,
'Damien : Omen II' and
'Superman' both in 1978,
'Blow Out' in 1981,
'First Blood' and
'Tootsie' both in 1982,
'Jagged Edge' in 1985,
'Casualties of War' in 1989,
'The Bonfire of the Vanities' in 1990,
'Frankie and Johnny' in 1991,
'Battlefield Earth' in 2000,
'A Lobster Tale' in 2006 being his final feature film credit. In the meantime there were also numerous TV series including
'Have Gun, Will Travel', 'The Untouchables', 'Gunsmoke', 'Hogan's Heroes', 'My Favourite Martian', 'Alex Haley's Roots', 'Fantasy Island', 'Hart to Hart' and
'The Thorn Birds'. In addition to his Academy Award Stalmaster was granted the Career Achievement Award by the Casting Society of America (CSA) in 2003, and in 2018 the Casting Society of America began honouring entertainment professionals with the Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement.
* Christopher Pennock - born 7th June 1944 and died 12th February 2021, aged 76. Pennock was an American Actor of film, theatre and television who amassed fifty-five screen acting credits to his name in a career spanning six decades and which began in 1968 in the feature film
'Seven Days Too Long' which led him straight into 126 episodes of
'Dark Shadows' between 1970 and '71, and then the feature film
'Night of Dark Shadows' in 1971 playing the same character, Gabriel Collins. He followed this up with the likes of
'Savages' in 1972 for James Ivory, then
'California Suite' in 1978,
'Frances' in 1982 and then a string of B-movies including
'Basic Training', 'Caged in Paradiso', 'Running Woman', 'High' in 2009 in the role he would reprise in the TV series of the same name over nine episodes between 2016 and 2020,
'Legacy', 'Lost on Purpose', 'A Journey to a Journey', 'The Night-Time Winds' with
'Walter Tynan Will Now Take Your Questions' in pre-production at the time of Pennock's passing, with him being cast in the title role. In the intervening years there were appearances on TV series including
'General Hospital', 'The Love Boat', 'Cagney & Lacey', 'The A-Team', 'Dynasty', 'The Young and the Restless', 'Knots Landing', 'Melrose Place', 'Baywatch', and on eight episodes of
'Theatre Fantastique' between 2014 and 2017. Pennock wrote and illustrated a continuing comic-book series about his experiences on the set of
'Dark Shadows', and he was also a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
* Marcia Diamond - born 23rd November 1925 and died 12th February 2021, aged 95. Diamond was a Canadian Actress of film and television who amassed forty-five screen acting credits to her name, beginning with the TV series
'On Camera' in an episode titled
'Just a Short Visit' in 1955. Then there was nothing until two episodes of
'Quest' in 1962 and 1963 followed by a single episodes titled
'My Son, the Doctor' on the TV series
'Playdate'. After this her next outing came in 1970 on TV series
'McQueen' with her first feature film coming in 1971's horror
'The Reincarnate'. 'Class of '44' came next in 1973 then other big screen roles followed including
'Deranged' and
'Black Christmas' both in 1974,
'Ticket to Heaven' in 1981,
'Sing' in 1989,
'Sam & Me' in 1991, with
'Spy Games' in 1999 being her final feature film role. In the meantime there were also a number of made for TV movies, and TV series including
'Night Heat', 'Street Legal', 'Puppets Who Kill', 'Skins', 'Good Dog', 'My Babysitter's a Vampire' and
'Man Seeking Woman' in 2015 being her final screen role.
* Martha Stewart - born Martha Ruth Stewart Haworth on 7th October 1922 and died 17th February 2021, aged 98. Stewart was an American Actress who notched up just twelve screen acting credits to her name during her career which kicked off in 1945 in her debut feature film
'Doll Face' with Perry Como and Carmen Miranda. She followed this up a year later with
'Johnny Comes Flying Home' then
'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now', 'Daisy Kenyon' with Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda,
'Are You with It?' with Donald O'Connor,
'In a Lonely Place' in 1950 with Humphrey Bogart,
'Convicted' that same year with Glenn Ford,
'Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick' in 1952 and then her final big screen role in 1964 in
'Surf Party'. In the intervening years she had just a few TV appearances in single episodes of
'Our Man Higgins', 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour' and
'My Three Sons' in 1965 after which she officially retired from her acting career. Before landing her first role in feature films she was a vocalist with the Glenn Miller Band, and following her retirement in the mid-'60's she spent her life dedicated to her family and religious causes. She had caught COVID-19 in the days leading to her passing.
* Alan Curtis - born 30th July 1930, died 18th February 2021, aged 90. Curtis was an English Actor of stage, television and film, and also a cricket announcer for the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. During his seven decade spanning screen career he amassed seventy credits, beginning in 1956 on five episodes of TV series
'The Black Brigand'. His first big screen role came in 1963 in
'Tomorrow at Ten' with Robert Shaw and William Hartnell and he would follow this up in 1966 with the Italian film
'Agente Logan - missione Ypotron' and then 1971's
'Carry On Henry' and then
'Die Screaming Marianne' that same year,
'The Four Dimensions of Greta', 'The Flesh and Blood Show' and
'Carry On Abroad' all in 1972,
'Tiffany Jones' in 1973 with
'Professor Popper's Problem' in 1974 being his last feature film appearance, although he did take a role in the
'Screen Two' made for TV film
'The Vision' in 1988 with Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick and Helena Bonham Carter. In the years in between and since he also appeared in TV series and made for television movies including
'Emergency-Ward 10', 'The Avengers', 'Coronation Street', 'The Saint', 'Doctor Who', 'Z Cars', 'Up Pompeii!', 'On the Buses', 'Morecambe & Wise', 'Sir Yellow', 'Last of the Summer Wine', 'Duty Free' and the mini-series
'Small World' in 1988 being his last screen role for fifteen years until two episodes of
'Footballer's Wives' in 2003 which would mark the end of his acting career. Curtis suffered a stroke in the early 2000's, that left him unable to use one of his arms.
* Ronald Pickup - born 7th June 1940 and died 24th February 2021, aged 80. Pickup was an English Actor who was active in television, film, and theatre from 1964 onwards following his breakout role in an early episode of the fledgling television series
'Doctor Who'. He followed this up in 1967 in the made for TV film
'Much Ado About Nothing' and his first big screen role came in 1970 in
'Three Sisters' Directed and starring Laurence Olivier. Over the years that followed there were to be many film roles amidst his total 158 screen acting credits including
'The Day of the Jackal' in 1973 with Edward Fox, 1974's
'Mahler' for Director Ken Russell,
'The Thirty Nine Steps' in 1978 with Robert Powell,
'Zulu Dawn' in 1979 with Burt Lancaster,
'Never Say Never Again' in 1983 with Sean Connery,
'Eleni' in 1985 with John Malkovich,
'The Mission' in 1986 with Robert De Niro,
'The Fourth Protocol' in 1987 with Michael Caine,
'A Dry White Season' in 1989 with Donald Sutherland,
'Lolita' in 1997 with Jeremy Irons,
'Evilenko' in 2004 with Malcolm McDowell and
'Secret Passage' that same year with John Turturro,
'Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time' in 2010 with Jake Gyllenhaal,
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' in 2011 and its sequel in 2015
'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' featuring an ensemble cast of British acting talent,
'The Time of Their Lives' in 2017 with Joan Collins and Pauline Collins and also that year
'The Darkest Hour' with Gary Oldman,
'The Happy Prince' in 2018 Directed, Written and starring Rupert Everett with
'Schadenfreude' currently in post-production. In the years in between were were numerous made for TV movies and TV series roles that took in the likes of all nine episodes of
'Verdi', the mini-series in the title role of
'Einstein', 'Inspector Morse', 'Silent Witness', 'The Ruth Rendell Mysteries', 'Casualty', 'The Bill', 'Waking the Dead', 'Foyle's War', thirteen episodes of
'The Worst Week of My Life', twenty-two episodes on
'Holby City', 'Young Dracula', 'Coronation Street', 'Downton Abbey', 'The Crown', and the mini-series
'Summer of Rockets' in 2019. Pickup was also an accomplished stage Actor having worked in theatre productions with Laurence Olivier, Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow.
* Alan Robert Murray - born sometime in 1954 or 1955 and died 24th February 2021, aged 66. Murray was an American Sound Editor who accumulated 106 sound department credits throughout his career mostly on feature films beginning with
'First Love' in 1977. In 1978 Alan began a working relationship with Clint Eastwood on his 1979 film
'Escape from Alcatraz' and has continued as Eastwood's supervising Sound Editor for over forty years culminating on
'Richard Jewell' in 2019. Murray was nominated for ten Academy Awards. In 2007, Murray won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on
'Letters from Iwo Jima' and in 2015, Murray won his second Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on 2014's
'American Sniper' (both Directed by Clint Eastwood). He earned his tenth nomination at the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing for 2019's
'Joker', setting a record for the Sound Editing category. All up Murray collected ten award wins and another forty-eight nominations.
* Erica Watson - born 26th February 1973 and died 27th February 2021, aged 48. Watson was American Actress who accumulated just twelve screen acting credits during her short career which launched in 2006 in the feature film
'Dirty Laundry' and which she followed up with the multi-award winning
'Precious' in 2009, then
'Side Effects' for Director Steven Soderbergh in 2013,
'Top Five' in 2014 for Director, Writer and star Chris Rock with
'Chi-Raq' in 2015 for Director Spike Lee being her last feature film outing. In the intervening years there were also appearances on TV series
'Chicago Fire', 'The Chi' and
'Empire' with her final screen role coming in 2020 on the short film
'Tell Someone'. Watson died of complications arising from COVID-19.
* Johnny Briggs - born 5th September 1935 and died 28th February 2021, aged 85. Briggs was an English Actor of film and television most famous for his role as Mike Baldwin in the long running TV show
'Coronation Street' from 1976 through to 2006 appearing in 2,348 episodes. His career however launched in a minor role in the 1947 film
'Hue & Cry' with Alistair Sim and Jack Warner and he followed this up with a total eighty-seven screen acting roles throughout his career which spanned seven decades up until his final appearance on a single episode of
'Doctors' in 2009. In the intervening years his big screen roles started off with small uncredited bit parts in the likes of
'Oliver Twist' in 1948 and
'The Lavender Hill Mob' in 1951 with his first credited role coming in 1953's
'Cosh Boy' with Joan Collins. Later on came
'Light Up the Sky!' and
'The Bulldog Breed' both in 1960,
'The Wind of Change' in 1961 with Donald Pleasence,
'H.M.S. Defiant' in 1962 with Alex Guinness, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Quayle,
'The Leather Boys' in 1964,
'The Devil-Ship Pirates' and
'633 Squadron' with Cliff Robertson that same year,
'The Last Escape' and
'Perfect Friday' both in 1970 with
'Carry on England' and
'The Office Party' both in 1976 being his final film roles. In the years in between he also appeared in other TV series including on seven episodes of
'The Younger Generation', 'The Saint', on eighty episodes of
'No Hiding Place', 'The Persuaders', 'On the Buses', on seven episodes of
'Crossroads', 'Z Cars', 'Holby City' and on ten episodes of
'Echo Beach' in 2008. Briggs was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 at the British Soap Awards and in 2007 he was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in HRH The Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to entertainment.
Sixteen deaths reported this month from the film and television community at large, and that community is just a little bit poorer as a result. As some governments the world over are easing up on their COVID-19 restrictions, others are enforcing further stages of lockdowns because of a second or in some cases a third wave in cases. Remember the basic principles that continue to be advocated - maintain a safe distance, hand hygiene and wear a mask if you are unable to maintain a safe distance especially - together we can all beat this thing. Stay safe, remain healthy and wherever you are in the world, if you're in lock down - watch a movie on your favoured streaming service from the comfort of your own home.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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