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The Opera House was a career dream and a personal disaster for the Australian architect, but now he – and engineer Ove Arup – will receive recognition.

After 50 years, the Sydney Opera House is still a marvel of 20th-century design – and our country’s global calling card.

From grazing cows to royal couples and zip-lining celebrities, the Opera House has been a gathering point for decades.

Peter Hall, then the National Theater’s artistic director, described Mr. Gambon as “unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful,” and recalled in his…

The actor played memorable roles on film and TV but always professed that his stage work was most important.

Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

Tributes pour in for the towering figure of stage and screen whose stellar six-decade career was filled with accolades

He played down his performance as Hogwarts’ headmaster, saying he simply played himself “with a stuck-on beard and a long robe”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

RICHARD KAY: For those who like their screen heroes larger than life, Sir Michael Gambon, who has died at the age of 82, fulfilled an awful lot of fantasies.

Actor who found fame playing Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s television series The Man from UNCLE