The death of Dorothy Height reminded America that Rosa Parks — famed for refusing to vacate a whites-only seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — was not the first, or even the second or third, black woman, to have driven the civil rights agenda in the United States. …
Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and ethnic changes, died Friday. He was 83. …
Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85. …
Dixie Carter, who gained television fame as Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running CBS sitcom “Designing Women,” has died. She was 70. …
Every musical era throws up its sharp-witted entrepreneurs with an eye to the main chance, ready to market the latest anti-establishment trend to the very mainstream it was created to oppose. In the late 1970s Malcolm McLaren achieved both respect and notoriety for his role in the selling of punk rock and the buccaneering way he guided the Sex Pistols through their brief and tempestuous career. In the process he became the best-known manager in rock music since Brian Epstein steered the Beatles to success in the 1960s. …
An Old Etonian and the son of a Coldstream Guards brigadier, Christopher Cazenove lent his patrician good looks and stiff upper lip to a string of British films and television dramas. But he attracted his biggest audience in the US soap opera Dynasty (1981-89) as Ben Carrington, the scheming brother of the oil tycoon Blake Carrington, played by John Forsythe, who died last week…
Corin Redgrave enjoyed a long career as an actor on stage and in films. His reputation was overshadowed by his sisters and father, and he was better known to some sections of the British public for his left-wing politics. But he did have a distinguished stage career and appeared in dozens of feature films and television dramas, often in small supporting roles. …
John Forsythe, the suave actor with the silvery hair and mellifluous voice who was familiar to millions for his roles on the popular television series “Bachelor Father,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “Dynasty,” died Thursday. He was 92. …
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