Pat Kirkwood, Star of British Musical Theater, Dies at 86
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Ms. Kirkwood had leading roles in musicals written by NoÃ«l Coward and Cole Porter.
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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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Malcolm Arnold, the British composer who  won an Oscar for the musical score to the film "The Bridge on  the River Kwai," has died after a brief illness.
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Acclaimed singer Robert Merrill, the opera baritone who felt equally comfortable on opening night at the Metropolitan Opera House or opening day at Yankee Stadium, has died. He was 85.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced  singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the  1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to  the TV Western "Rawhide," died on Tuesday at 93.
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Robert Goulet played a dashing Lancelot in 1960 and went on to a wide-ranging career as a singer and actor, winning a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy.
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British actress Deborah Kerr, who starred in The King And I and From Here To Eternity, has died at the age of 86.
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BACHELOR BOY TRIBUTE A TRIBUTE to Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows will be staged at a Douglas theatre on Friday.
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Jazz star George Melly has died at his home in London at the age of 80, his wife Diana said Thursday.
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Playbill - William Hutt, an acting institution at the Stratford Festival of Canada, died in his sleep in the early hours of June 27, the festival reported. He was 87.
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Northern Ireland entertainment promoter Jim Aiken dies after a short illness aged 74.
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The funeral of West End musical star Pat Kirkwood, who died at the age of 83, will take place later.
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Jerry Orbach, who starred in the television crime drama ``Law &amp; Order&#39;&#39; as sarcastic detective Lennie Briscoe and appeared in such Broadway musicals as ``42nd Street&#39;&#39; and ``Chicago,&#39;&#39; has died of prostate cancer.
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Suzanne Pleshette, who played the wife in 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, dies at the age of 70.
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Playbill - Griffith Jones, the British actor whose long-lived career included two Noel Coward premieres and a quarter century at the Royal Shakespeare Company, died Jan. 30 at the age of 96.
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Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsopp, has died aged 100.
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Flamboyant jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80.