... JILL MEGGIDO Jill Meggido's long battle against cancer ended on Friday, March 17. Her tragic and untimely death has deprived us of a life-enchancing person whose artistry, compassion and common sense impressed everyone who knew her. Bom in 1946, she had worked for almost 25 years at Mountview, which has lost an inspirational teacher and much- loved colleague. Jill had a successful career on ...

... FRANK EGGINS It is often said that the theatre I and law are very similar. i Frank Eggins had a foot in I both camps. By profession, he i was a solicitor in Nottingham, complete with reasoned but often I theatrical modes of expression in court. But by night he exchanged i legal drama for the stage as i a theatre critic, and for the last ten years delivered judgement and encouragement for The ...

... NELLO BARIO Formerly a very popular musical clown and eccentric, Nello Bario (Lionello Meschi) has died in Paris following a long illness, at the age of 81. His Italian-born father Manrico Meschi and uncle Dario Meschi formed one of Europe's leading musical clown acts in the twenties as the Dario- Bario family. Nello, born Lionello, in Alinxos, Sweden on August 28, 1918, became a member of the ...

... nicholas clay Nicholas Clay, who died on May 25 aged 53, was primarily known to the public as a prolific actor in the cinema and on American television, although he had a distinguished stage career as a supporting actor. Bom on September 18, 1946, he was a graduate of RADA, and on leaving went into various repertory companies. It was during the seventies that he established his considerable ...

... WILLIAM MOORE Versatile actor and director William Moore has died just a few days before his 84th birthday. Although he had an extensive and varied career in theatre, films and television, many will perhaps best remember him for his performances as Ronnie Corbett's likeable father in the BBC sitcom Sorry! Born in Birmingham, Moore trained and subsequently played with Sir Barry Jackson's ...

... FRANCIS LEDERER Czech born actor F-rancis Lederer, who became the sensation of the London stage in the thirties, has died at the age of 100. Although best remembered for his role in the seminal film Pandora's Box in 1929 with Louise Brooks, he had a distinguished theatre career both in Europe and on Broadway, He made his debut in London in 1931 in the musical My Sister and I, which was a huge ...

... LYNDA JAYNE CAMPBELL One of Northern Ireland's best-loved radio personalities, Lynda Jayne Campbell, has died suddenly at the age of 45. She had been a mainline presenter with Downtown Radio, located just outside Belfast, for 22 years. For most of that time, she was concerned with a broad range of programmes, but for the past two years had presented Keep It Country on Sunday evenings. Recently ...

... Douglas Fairbanks Jr Debonair actor, producer, author and businessman Douglas Fair banks Jr has died in New York at the age of 90. His dashing good looks and charm, supplemented by no small degree of skill, enabled him to carve out a career on the American stage and in silent movies, despite constant compar isons to his swashbuckling father. Born in Manhattan, the only son of Douglas ...

... SID EDWARDS One of the most respected names in magic, Sid Edwards, who for many years worked with his wife Eve under the stage names Sy and Isa Lyn, died in Glyn-Neath, West Glamorgan, on May 6, at the age of 79. He had been a chorister in Coventry and a noted ballroom dancer before discovering magic by sheer chance. After forgetting to buy his eight-year-old daughter a birthday present, the ...

... NICHOLAS BARNES With the sudden death of Nicholas Bames on December 5, entertainment in the west Midlands has been robbed of a unique personality. He was an outstanding singer and actor, a superb dancer and choreographer, a costume designer of high merit and a director of consummate skill. Bom into a theatrical environ ment on May 2, 1960 his mother being the actress Davina Barnes (nee Hannon) ...

... SUSAN DOWDALL Peter Cheeseman writes: Following a short illness, the actress Susan Dowdall has recently died. Sue was a regular and much-loved member of the New Vic company in Newcastle-under-Lyme, from its opening in August 1986 until her last appearance in Arms and the Man in November 1997. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic School and spent four years as a stunningly beautiful young actress ...

... JEAN FAULDS Jean Faulds, one of Scotland's longest-serving actresses, has died in hospital in Glasgow after a short ill ness. She was 86. There was hardly a theatre north of the border that she had not played, and she also registered strongly in England drama, television, radio and soap opera were all part of her working life, and she also had good roles in films. Her early work was at the ...