When the BBC requested an interview he asked them: ‘Do you really want to show your viewers this fat Hun?’
He started out as a history teacher but became one of the best-loved faces of regional news and a passionate reporter on rugby league
Hair was a global success but a mixed blessing for its creators, Rado admitting that for a time he could not bear to listen to the music
The Heads are racing royalty in France, though they are of English ancestry, and the Queen enjoyed being escorted around Normandy by Alec
Talking about rescuing Jews he knew who were in danger, Walaszczyk said: ‘If something was to be done, it had to be done for them all’
She showed that the 1938-39 German expedition, though tainted by its links with the Nazis, was genuinely scientific with no occult purpose
By the time Reardon Smith succeeded as chairman of the group in the 1980s the fortunes of British merchant ships were waning
His clubs included Sheffield United and Sunderland, while it was his England teammate Nat Lofthouse who set his pop career in motion
She enjoyed working with David Bowie on The Man Who Fell to Earth, but Peter Sellers (Being There) ‘had good and bad days. Mostly bad’
At the beginning of the war the Soviets drove Szmid and his family from their Polish village to be put to work in the bitter cold of Siberia
She stood for the Conservatives in Swansea East at the 1955 General Election, the youngest female candidate the Tories had ever put up
As editor of Mixmag he chronicled the Nineties clubbing scene before immersing himself in Brazil and the Amazon rainforest
Besides writing and teaching, he spent 25 years restoring a manor house in Norfolk with his wife
His works often defined the times in which they were written, and he bitterly opposed his country’s occupation of Palestinian territory
His Richard Nixon in Secret Honor was a masterful depiction of compromised political power, and he was noted for a 1991 episode of Seinfeld
‘Explosive’ on stage, he portrayed Dylan in the movie Renaldo and Clara and played at Bill Clinton’s inauguration
He rose to fame during the French New Wave and despite personal tragedy established himself as one of France’s most gifted actors
He foiled a plot to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival and connived in a sting operation which stymied the far-right British Democratic Party
He served as the Telegraph’s diarist, arts editor and television reviewer – and as a Labour supporter surprised himself by staying so long
He changed how dance was filmed, saying: ‘You can choreograph with an eyebrow as excitingly as you can with a grand jeté across the stage’