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Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Alamy Faulkner: he got his nickname Trader from his habit of stealing his father's whisky and bartering it at school for marbles - Alamy Ronald “Trader” Faulkner, who has died aged 93, was an Australian actor, writer, flamenco enthusiast and a friend of Hollywood stars from John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier to Peter Finch, whose biography he wrote; with his matinée idol looks, Faulkner was a regular supporting player in Hollywood films of...

The best directors always wanted Rosalind Knight in their casts. Photograph: Simon Annand/PA In a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass character actor Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, renewed her TV profile with younger audiences in two quirkily original comedy sitcoms: Jonathan Harvey’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001) and Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner (in the second series, 2012). She dressed down and mussed up her hair for Beryl Merit, a retired prostitute and landlady of the north London flat shar...