Tom Wilkinson obituary
Versatile stage and screen actor who won a Bafta for his role as Gerald in the hit 1997 film The Full Monty
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Versatile stage and screen actor who won a Bafta for his role as Gerald in the hit 1997 film The Full Monty
What a year! I pulled out my notebook over a hundred times and came away, more often not, with a happy heart. Below is a condensed list of the very best - and worst - that I saw.
From The Full Monty to In the Bedroom, Michael Clayton to Eternal Sunshine, the actor – who has died aged 75 – was an intelligent and unshowy delight
Tom Wilkinson, who has died aged 75, was frequently described as “the actor’s actor” – a label usually ascribed to one whose professionalism keeps the show on the road while other, more picturesque, performers bask in the limelight and take the plaudits.
Richard Rampton, KC, who has died aged 82, was widely regarded as one of the greatest defamation lawyers of his generation; a deceptively avuncular yet formidably incisive advocate, he was also a leading authority on libel law as co-author of the seminal textbook on the subject, Duncan and Neill on Defamation.