First-class stamp

LIKE Michael Caine and Albert Finney, Terence Stamp was one of a new wave of working class actors who came into vogue in the 1960s. His brooding good looks and piercing gaze mesmerised cinemagoers in

Remembering a true screen icon

Boris Becker on life in jail When Boris ...

At 1.30pm on Thursday 25 February 1971, the character of Mr Benn walked cheerfully into many children’s lives. The first episode of the animated series saw Benn, an ordinary resident of 52 Festive Roa

THE “King of Cool” was one of the biggest blue-eyed heart-throbs of his time, but the Hollywood actor had humble and troubled beginnings. McQueen’s childhood was in no way rosy. Born to a teenage moth

The quintessential intellectual playwright whose erudition convinces theatregoers they are far cleverer and better-read than they actually are