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Obituaries

Jo Stafford

Beguiling and versatile jazz singer who topped the charts with a stream of exhilarating anthems and comic cover versions

Ed Arno

Cartoonist whose first-class draughtsmanship and economical humour enhanced The New Yorker’s well-known single-panel slots

Lord Hunt of Tanworth

Discreet Secretary of the Cabinet who was thrust into the limelight over the Crossman Diaries affair

Fred Yates

Artist with a love of colour and pageantry who painted for the man in the street and was likened to, but not confused with, Lowry

Bruce Conner

Iconoclastic artist who defied categorisation and with his short film Breakaway inadvertently anticipated the pop video

Bryan Cowgill

BBC sports boss who introduced the action replay and then proved himself a master of the ratings wars at BBC1 and then at ITV

Elizabeth Bartlett

Much esteemed self-taught poet whose work dwelt on her observations of humanity during her decades working in the NHS

Mario Rigoni Stern

Reclusive Italian writer best known for his account of the harrowing winter retreat of the Italian 8th Army from Russia

Lives remembered. Add your personal recollections to recently published Times obituaries

Janwillem van de Wetering

Police thriller writer who wrote his bestsellers in Dutch and English

Thomas Disch

Science-fiction writer who achieved fame with The Brave Little Toaster

Hugh Lloyd

Mild-mannered actor who used his lugubrious face to comic effect in films, plays and a long-running TV series with Terry Scott

Roger Landes

SOE agent who helped the French Resistance both before and after D-Day

Jonathan Frankel

Professor Jonathan Frankel

Historian of Russia and modern Jewry whose ability to read in half a dozen languages gave his work massive authority

Bobby Durham

Sought-after drummer who worked with the greatest names in jazz and contributed a prodding urgency to Oscar Peterson’s trio

Lives in brief. Other recent obituaries which have been published in The Times
Bronislaw Geremek

Bronislaw Geremek

Key adviser to Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa during the sustained 1980s challenge to Communist rule in Poland

Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes

Actress whose career and tempestuous love life were overshadowed by her role in the movie Gone with the Wind

Malcolm Clarkson

Publisher and founder of an adventurous educational press whose books challenged the output from more established houses

Charles Joffe

Producer and manager of comic talent who nurtured the careers of Woody Allen, Billy Crystal and other stars

Alan Brooks

Alan Brooks

Lifelong campaigner against injustice who played a key role in Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1970s and 1980s

Anne Stobbs

Writer who chronicled her wartime experiences as a radar operator

Gino Donè

Italian revolutionary who sailed to Cuba on the Granma to help Fidel Castro launch the Cuban revolution

Sir Peter Darby

HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services who oversaw the inquiry into the 1988 Kings Cross fire

The Rev Geoffrey Mowat

The Rev Geoffrey Mowat

Civil servant and soldier who was captured after Singapore's fall and became a prisoner of the Japanese for three years

Ítalo Argentino Luder

Peronist politician who became interim president of Argentina for 34 days during the turbulent 1970s

Michael Barnes

Leading arts administrator who founded a Belfast cultural festival at the height of political unrest in Northern Ireland

David Kirby

Vice chairman and chief executive of British Rail who led the railways during its Golden Age

Michael DeBakey

Michael DeBakey

US pioneer of cardiovascular surgery who performed first coronary artery bypass and helped create MASH units

Hana Pravda

Hana Pravda

Czech actress who survived Nazi camps, rebuilt her career in British TV and published a moving diary of her experiences

John Armstrong

Bridge player whose buccaneering style led to many victories, including winning the European Team Championships in 1991