Obituaries

JOAN CRAWFORD’S career included more than 80 movies and an Oscar. She drew on life experience for her onscreen persona of a feisty woman striving to better herself, as her upbringing was tough. Born L

Conversations with Mrs T The former Spectator editor ...

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

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

Charismatic star who shunned the Hollywood limelight

Cricket’s most famous, and beloved, umpire