18 July 1985 – James Norton, 41, English actor An Education (2009) * Happy Valley * Grantchester * War & Peace * McMafia * Mr Jones * Little Women * Nowhere Special * Rogue Agent * Trial of Christine Keeler * The Nevers * A Little Life * King & Conqueror * House of Guinness * House of Dragon (2026)

18 July 1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, 65, US-British actress, singer-songwriter. Ragtime (1981 OscarNom) * Once Upon a Time in America * She's Having a Baby * The Bedroom Window * The Handmaid's Tale * Wings of the Dove * The House of Mirth * Buffalo Soldiers * Downton Abbey (2010–2025 + films)

18 July 1940 – James Brolin, (b. Craig Bruderlin), 86, US actor. Barbara Streisand (m. 1998) Boston Strangler (1968) * Skyjacked * Westworld * Capricorn One * Amityville Horror * Traffic * Reagans * Last Chance Harvey * Burlesque * Sisters * Life in Pieces * Lightyear (voice) Ransom Canyon (2025-)

18 July 1938 – Paul Verhoeven, 88, Dutch filmmaker, screenwriter. Turkish Delight (1973 OscarNom) * Keetje Tippel * Soldier of Orange * Fourth Man * RoboCop * Total Recall * Basic Instinct * Showgirls * Hollow Man * Black Book * Elle * Starship Troopers * Entertainment Experience * Benedetta (2021)

18 July 1911 – 2003 Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-US actor. Jessica Tandy ​(m. 1942 died 1994) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) * Cross of Lorraine * Seventh Cross (OscarNom) Postman Always Rings Twice * Hamlet (Tony) Cleopatra * Cocoon * Dollmaker (writer) Foxfire * To Dance with White Dog * Off Season (2002)

18 July 1908 – 1944 María Guadalupe 'Lupe' Vélez, 36, Mexican-US actress, singer, dancer. The Gaucho (1927) * Ladies of the Pavements * The Wolf Song * Tiger Rose (1929) * Resurrection (1931) * Kongo * Hot Pepper * Strictly Dynamite * The Mexican Spitfire films (1939-43, 8 films) * Nana (1944)

18 July 1902 – 1978 Chill Wills, 76, US actor. Way Out West (1937 The Avalon Boys) * The Westerner * Meet Me in St. Louis * Leave Her to Heaven * The Yearling * Francis (voice of the Talking Mule) * Kentucky Rifle * Giant * The Alamo * The Over-the-Hill Gang * Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

17 July 1935 – 2024 Donald Sutherland, 88, Canadian actor Dirty Dozen (1967) * M*A*S*H * Klute * Don't Look Now * Steelyard Blues * Ordinary People (OscarNom) * JFK * Citizen X * A Time To Kill * Without Limits * Instinct * Commander in Chief * Human Trafficking * Honorary Oscar (2017) The Undoing

17 July 1899 – 1986 James Cagney, 86, US actor, dancer. Sinners' Holiday (Broadway + 1930 film) Public Enemy * Angels with Dirty Faces (OscarNom) * Each Dawn I Die * Roaring Twenties * Doodle Dandy (Oscar) * White Heat * Mister Roberts * Love Me or Leave Me (OscarNom) One Two Three * Ragtime (1981)

16 July 1907 – 1990 Barbara Stanwyck, (b. Ruby Stevens), 82, US dancer, actress. 'I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling, "Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck", and I'd think, "Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!"'

After the sudden death of a Senator triggering a Senate vacancy the state governor, under immense pressure from political bosses makes a temporary appointment, bypassing democracy and exploiting a constitutional loophole appointing an inexperienced 'stooge'. 17th Amendment youtu.be/LZ0rABISqkM?...

16 July 1911 – 1995 Ginger Rogers, (b. Virginia McMath), 83, US dancer, actress, singer. 42nd Street (1932) * Gold Diggers of 1933 * Ten films with Fred Astaire (1933-49) * Stage Door * Bachelor Mother * The Primrose Path * Kitty Foyle (Oscar) * Monkey Business * Tight Spot * Hello, Dolly! (1965)

16 July 1907 – 1990 Barbara Stanwyck, (b. Ruby Stevens), 82, US dancer, actress. One of greatest actors to never win an Oscar from four nominations Stella Dallas (1937) Ball of Fire * Double Indemnity * Sorry, Wrong Number (1949) Honorary Oscar (1982) The Big Valley (1966) The Thorn Birds (1983)

16 July 1906 – 2006 Vincent Sherman, 99, US filmmaker. Across the Pacific (1942) * The Hard Way * Old Acquaintance * In Our Time * Mr Skeffington * Nora Prentiss * The Unfaithful * The Damned Don't Cry * Harriet Craig * The Garment Jungle * Naked Earth * The Young Philadelphians * Cervantes (1967)

16 July 1888 – 1964 Percy Kilbride, 76, US actor. White Woman (1933) * George Washington Slept Here * Keeper of the Flame * Guest in the House * The Southerner * Fallen Angel * The Egg and I (1947 + ten spin-off Ma and Pa Kettle films with Majorie Main to 1955) Riffraff * Black Bart * Mr Soft Touch

An intimate portrait of a fiercely independent star who left it all behind to live life on her own terms, revealing a haunting, resilient journey of art, identity and authenticity in the shadow of one of cinema’s most iconic roles. Kim Novak's Vertigo (1hr 13min) Catchup bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

15 July 1961 – Forest Whitaker, 65, US actor. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Platoon * Bird * Crying Game * American Gun * Last King of Scotland (Oscar) Fruitvale Station * The Butler * Black Panther * Godfather of Harlem Director: Waiting to Exhale (1995) Hope Floats * First Daughter (2004)

15 July 1952 – Celia Imrie, 74, English actress. Upstairs, Downstairs (1974) Victoria Wood * Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit * The Sea * Bridget Jones * Calendar Girls * Nanny McPhee * St Trinians * Best Exotic Marigold Hotel * Better Things * Mamma Mia! * Thursday Murder Club * The Diplomat (2023–)

15 July 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, 80, US singer-songwriter, actress. 2011 diagnosed as Parkinson's disease. Winner of 11 Grammy Awards + Pirates of Penzance (Broadway + 1983 film) Age 21, singer Stone Poneys, their 1967 version of Mike Nesmith (before The Monkees) 1964 song. youtu.be/zKbna-fKzlI?...

15 July 1925 – 2009 Philip Carey, 83, US actor. Operation Pacific (1950) I Was a Communist for FBI * This Woman Is Dangerous * Gun Fury * Calamity Jane * The Nebraskan * Pushover * Mister Roberts * Port Afrique * Screaming Mimi * The Great Sioux Massacre * One Life to Live * All My Children (2004)

Sam Neill (14 Sep 1947 – 13 July 2026, age 78) "I guess that means the power's off." "Well, at least you're out of the tree."

14 July 1960 – Jane Lynch, 66, US actress, presenter. The Fugitive (1993) * Best in Show * Collateral Damage * A Mighty Wind * For Your Consideration * Julie & Julia * Paul * Two and a Half Men * The L Word * Boston Legal * Glee * The Good Fight * Weakest Link * Only Murders in the Building (2025)

14 July 1928 – Nancy Olson, 98, US actress Canadian Pacific (1949) * Sunset Boulevard (OscarNom) * Union Station * Big Jim McLain * So Big * Battle Cry * Pollyanna * The Absent-Minded Professor * Son of Flubber * Snowball Express * Airport 1975 * Paper Dolls * Flubber * Big Love * Dumbbells (2014)

14 July 1926 – 2017 Harry Dean Stanton, 91, US actor, musician, singer. Cool Hand Luke (1967) * Kelly's Heroes * Alien * Escape from New York * Paris, Texas * Wild at Heart * The Straight Story * The Green Mile * Inland Empire * Big Love * Seven Psychopaths (The Quaker) * Lucky * Twin Peaks (2017)

14 July 1912 – 1967 Woody Guthrie, 55, US singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist. #WW2 Merchant Navy (1943-45) Atlantic War Zone Medal A Dust Bowl emigre of 1930s, in 1940 he wrote This Land Is Your Land, a response to Irving Berlin's God Bless America Once a tenant of Fred Trump ('Old Man Trump')

14 July 1906 - 1964 - William Bendix, 58, US actor Wake Island (1942 OscarNom) The Glass Key * #Hitchcock Lifeboat * The Blue Dahlia * The Dark Corner * The Web * The Babe Ruth Story * Cover Up * The Life of Riley * The Big Steal * Detective Story * Macao * Blackbeard the Pirate * Young Fury (1964)

14 July 1878 – 1946 Donald Meek, 68, Scottish-US actor. Hole in the Wall (1929) The Whole Town's Talking * Mark of the Vampire * The Informer * You Can't Take It with You * Jesse James * Stagecoach * The Return of Frank James * Keeper of the Flame * The Thin Man Goes Home * Magic Town (1946)

14 July 1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris start of The French Revolution (1789-99) Reign of Terror (1793–94 1794) c. 17-40,000 were guillotined or killed, 80% were not aristocracy, but perceived symphasisers. #BastilleDay #WorldCup Picture Eugène Delacroix (1830 Liberty Leading the People)

13 July 1942 – Harrison Ford, 84, US actor. American Graffiti (1973) Star Wars * Indiana Jones (1981-2023) * Blade Runner * Witness (OscarNom) Mosquito Coast * Frantic * Six Days, Seven Nights * Air Force One * Clear and Present Danger * The Fugitive * 42 * 1923 * Shrinking * Captain America (2025)

13 July 1941 – 2019 Robert Forster, 78, US actor. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) * Medium Cool * Banyon * Alligator * Jackie Brown (OscarNom) * Me, Myself & Irene * Mulholland Drive * The Descendants * Karen Sisco * Heroes * Twin Peaks: The Return * Breaking Bad * Better Call Saul (2019)

13 July 1940 – Patrick Stewart, 86, English actor. The Gathering Storm (1974) * I, Claudius * Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy * Excalibur * Dune * Lady Jane * Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–94 + films) * Moby Dick * X Men * King of Texas * The Lion in Winter * Logan * Star Trek: Picard (2021-23)

13 July 1922 – 2011 Leslie Brooks, (b. Gettman), 88, US actress, dancer. You Were Never Lovelier (1942) * City Without Men * Cover Girl * Tonight and Every Night * Secret of the Whistler * Man Who Dared * Romance on the High Seas * Blonde Ice * Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar) The Cobra Strikes (1948)

13 July 1901 – 1969 Eric Portman, 68, English actor. Moonlight Sonata (1937) 49th Parallel * Millions Like Us * A Canterbury Tale * Corridor of Mirrors * Spider and the Fly * His Excellency * Deep Blue Sea * Separate Tables (Tony Award) * The Man Who Finally Died * The Whisperers * Deadfall (1968)

12 July 1976 – Anna Friel, 50, English actress. Brookside (1993–95) Land Girls * Rogue Trader * Closer (Broadway) The War Bride * Me Without You * Timeline * Pushing Daisies (2007–09) * Limitless * The Street * Bathory * Broken * Butterfly * Books of Blood * American Odyssey * Marcella (2016–2021)

12 July 1920 – 2000 Beah Richards, 80, US actress, poet, playwright, author, activist. The Miracle Worker (Broadway + 1962 film) * Amen Corner (Broadway) In the Heat of the Night * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (OscarNom) * The Great White Hope * Roots * Frank's Place * Beloved * The Practice (2000)

12 July 1880 – 1962 Tod Browning, 82, US circus roustabout and performer, actor, director, screenwriter He directed his first film in 1915, but best known for his film adaptation of Dracula (1931) Circus drama The Unknown (1927) and Freaks (1932) Mark of the Vampire (1935) and The Devil-Doll (1936)

12th of July - Orangemen's Day is a major Ulster Protestant 'celebration' of William of Orange's victory over Catholic King James II at Battle of Boyne in 1690. Some Parade routes march through Catholic/Nationalist areas in intimidation. The Protestant Dutch King. dutchreview.com/culture/oran...

12 July 70 AD Roman Empire army of Titus attack walls of Jerusalem. Three days later breaching the walls, they destroy the Second Temple, now in Palestine West Bank, home to al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Zealot Jewish factions prevent unified defense. warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-...

11 July 1959 – Suzanne Vega, (b. Peck), 67, US singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer. Tom's Diner (1981) * Marlene on the Wall * Straight Lines * Left of Center * Luka * Book of Dreams * Small Blue Thing * Blood Makes Noise * Caramel * 99.9F * No Cheap Thrill * Tom's Diner (DNA remix 1990)

11 July 1920 – 1985 Yul Brynner, 65, Russian-US-Swiss actor, dancer. Port of New York (1949) The King and I (1951-52 Tony Award) * The King and I (Oscar) Anastasia * The Ten Commandments * Solomon and Sheba * The Magnificent Seven * Taras Bulba * Westworld * Futureworld * Special Tony Award (1985)

11 July 1909 – 1998 Irene Hervey, 89, US actress. Allan Jones ​(m. 1936-57) Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Destry Rides Again * House of Fear * Boys from Syracuse * Night Monster * Mr Peabody and the Mermaid * A Cry in the Night * Honey West * My Three Sons * Cactus Flower * Play Misty for Me (1971)

11 July 1892 – 1962 Thomas Mitchell, 70, US actor The Hurricane (1937 OscarNom) Lost Horizon * Gone with the Wind * Stagecoach (Oscar) Mr Smith Goes to Washington * Long Voyage Home * Moontide * The Outlaw * It's a Wonderful Life * High Noon * Hazel Flagg (Tony Award) * Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Joanna Pettet (16 November 1942 – 7 July 2026, age 83), English-Canadian actress. The Group (1966) Only Candice Bergen, Mary-Robin Redd and Kathleen Widdoes left now. So gorgeous in Casino Royale (1967)

#BonnieTylerRIP (b. Gaynor Hopkins) (8 June 1951 - 9 July 2026 age 75) 😢 Her French version of Total Eclipse of the Heart, (original 1983), titled "Si demain... (Turn Around), released in 2003 with Kareen Antonn, became a massive number-one hit in France. youtu.be/ryjZjI-E024?si=aUr1gTj6WwztHoCo

10 July 1932 – Neile Adams, (b. Neilam Arrastia y Salvador), 94, Filipino-US (1948) dancer, actress, singer. (#WW2 Philippines Resistance Fighter) Steve McQueen (m. 1956-72) Broadway: Kismet (1957) * The Pajama Game * Film: This Could Be the Night * Women in Chains * Fuzz * Buddy Buddy (1981)

10 July 1931 – 1968 Nick Adams, 36, (Overdose), US actor, screenwriter. Rebel Without a Cause (1954) * Mister Roberts * The Last Wagon * Teacher's Pet * Pillow Talk * The Rebel * Saints and Sinners * Hell is for Heroes * Twilight of Honor (OscarNom) * Mission Mars * Wild Wild West (1966-68)

10 July 1926 – 1993 Fred Gwynne, 66, US actor, singer, writer, painter. (Height 6 ft 5 in) Film debut: On the Waterfront (1954) * Car 54, Where Are You? * The Munsters (+ films) * The Cotton Club * The Secret of My Success * Fatal Attraction * Ironweed * Pet Sematary * My Cousin Vinny (1992)

10 July 1911 – 1990 Terry-Thomas, (b. Hoar Stevens), 78, English actor. Green Man (1956) I'm All Right Jack * The Naked Truth * Tom Thumb * I'm All Right Jack * School for Scoundrels * It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World * How to Murder Your Wife * Monte Carlo or Bust! * Dr Phibes * Vault of Horror (1973)

10 July 1905 – 1971 Thomas Gomez, 65, US actor. Sherlock Holmes Voice of Terror (1942) Phantom Lady * The Climax * Johnny O'Clock * Ride the Pink Horse * Key Largo * Force of Evil * I Married a Communist * Anne of the Indies * Macao * The Sellout * Stay Away Joe * Beneath Planet of the Apes (1970)

10 July 1904 – 1994 Lili Damita, (b. Liliane Carré), 89, French-US actress Star of European films she made her Hollywood debut in The Rescue (1928) Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) This Is the Night (1932) She married then-unknown Errol Flynn in 1935 and retired. They had one son Sean, divorced 1942.