Golders Green Jewish Cemetery
The men and women interred at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery in Golders Green, London, England.
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Originally trained as a painter, he studied art at Chelsea Art School and London University and taught in his hometown of Northhampton after spending time in the RAF Medical Corps. He was a performer with the Children's Theatre Company and was involved in several productions in London's West End, including two years in "Alibi For a Judge."- Music Department
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Jacqueline Mary du Pré was born in Oxford on January 26, 1945. Her parents were Iris and Derek du Pré, and she had one older sister, Hilary. She began to show incredible musical promise at a very young age, and began to play the cello at the age of four, after hearing it on a BBC radio program. At five, she began to study at the London Cello School with Alyson Dalrymple. At ten, she won the Suggia Gift Award, which was to pay for two lessons a week with William Pleeth. Pleeth was one of her favorite people in the world, and was closer to her than her own family. She made her debut at Wigmore Hall at the age of 16, and at that time was given the gift from an anonymous donor of the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius, which she was to play for the rest of her life and eventually leave to Yo-Yo Ma when she died. After her debut, her career took off. She went to many master classes and did many concerts, and after a while she began to feel the strain. She was seriously considering quitting the cello. But, she thought, she had cost too many people too much money. So this is the reason that she stayed with it. She married pianist Daniel Barenboim in 1967, converted to Judaism, and had a very good life with him, yet she still felt strain from her early career start. She played in Israel with Barenboim right after the 6-Day War. Jackie's ties to Israel and the Jewish tradition would remain with her throughout her life. In 1969, Jackie began feeling intense numbness in her hands and feet. When she went to the doctor, the doctor brushed it off as stress. But it was something much more than that. It began coming more and more, and finally Jackie went to a doctor in 1973 who diagnosed her illness as multiple sclerosis (MS). Most people who suffer from MS have a normal or near-normal life expectancy but in rare cases it is so malignantly progressive it is terminal. She was told there would come a time in the very near future when she could never play again. That time came four years later in 1977. After that she gave lessons and taught master classes, but she never played again. She died at home, with her husband by her side, on October 19 1987, having survived for 14 years with MS.She converted to Judaism upon her marriage to Daniel Barenboim.- Music Department
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Jack Fishman was born on 14 June 1920 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Lifeforce (1985), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and Get Carter (1971). He died on 10 April 1997 in London, England, UK.- Hugo Gryn is known for Chasing Shadows (1991), The Star, the Castle & the Butterfly (1991) and Evil (1988).
- Maurice Kaufmann was born on 29 June 1927 in Gorleston, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Gorgo (1961), Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) and The Hero (1970). He was married to Honor Blackman. He died on 21 September 1997 in London, England, UK.
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Dame Maureen Lipman was born on 10th May 1946 in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Her father was a Jewish tailor and she was pressed into acting by her mother Zelma, who used to take Maureen to the pantomime and push her onto the stage. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Since then, she has appeared in a number of West End productions, including "See How They Run" (1984); "Candide"; "Lost in Yonkers" and her one-woman show "Re Joyce" - her homage to her heroine Joyce Grenfell.
In 28 years in the profession, Maureen has only been out of work for four months - and that was when she needed major surgery to remove a tumor at the top of her spine, which was threatening to paralyze her. To many people, Maureen Lipman is "Beattie" from the British Telecom advertisements which won her an award for "You got an Ology?" but, in reality, she has done so much more.
She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's New Years Honors List for her services to drama. Her husband, Jack Rosenthal, received a C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire) in 1993. She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to charity, Entertainment and the Arts.Future burial site.- Marjorie Proops was born on 10 August 1911. She was married to Sidney Joseph Proops. She died on 10 November 1996.
- Born in Ferrara, Italy in 1888 to a wealthy family Vittiorio was the 11th of 12 children born to Samuele and Lucia Rietti. At the age of 8 his family moved to Bologna. At the age of 13 he was discovered by the great Italian tragedian actor Tommaso Salvini while partaking in a charity performance. Salvini encouraged the boy to make the stage his career and it was under Salvini that he studied acting.
Rietti made his debut playing in Shakespeare at Bologna. At age 19 he had the distinction of being juvenile lead to the famous Eleonora Duse in her company. But his parents who planned upon his becoming a violinist persuaded him to resume his studies and Vittorio studied violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Studying together with him in Brussels was his cousin Vittorio Rieti (who went on to a highly successful career as a Broadway composer). He formed his own band the Rietti String Players with considerable success. When World War I broke out he was drafted into the Italian Army.
After World War I Rietti resumed his stage career. In the 1921 he founded Drama Players Theater (Later called Teatro Italiano and finally International Theater) which he ran for 40 years producing popular Italian plays of the time. He would personally translate and adapt these plays into English and play the lead from a cast that often included his son Bobby Rietti (a popular child actor who went on to a successful career of his own under the name Robert Rietty). On the side he taught acting, among his pupils were Ida Lupino, June Duprez and his son Bobby Rietti. His other son Ronald Rietti later became a film director and producer. He made his first motion picture in 1933 now credited as Victor Rietti. He would make some 36 motion pictures, his last being a cameo appearance in Come Fly with Me 1963. He also broadcast in some 43 radio plays.
With the beginning of television in the early 50's he scored his first major success in the 1951 television production of To Live in Peace playing the lead role, the lovable priest Don Bonaparte uncle of Napoleon, a part he previously played on the stage in one of his own productions. Rietti had personally translated the Italian play by Giovacchino Forzano and adapted it for television. The television play won critical acclaim being voted best play of 1951. Rietti himself was given the critic's Oscar for best television actor of 1951 for his performance.
Due to popular demand To Live in Peace was shot live again for television in early 1952 (BBC) , 1956 (RAI) and again in 1957 (BBC) and was broadcast for Radio in 1953 & 1956 with Rietti repeating his performance in all 6 productions with his son Robert Rietty playing the part of Maso. In addition NBC's prestigious Kraft Theatre televised a special color broadcast (The first of only 2 color broadcasts Kraft Theatre did in it's 11 year run) of To Live in Peace in 1953 and CBC Television televised it in 1957. Rietti's television success with To Live in Peace led to his touring the continent with the play for Ralph Reader, Samuel French buying the book rights to play which he published in 1952, a planned film version starring Rietti by Producer Sydney Box and 11 additional Radio productions of the play around the world. Rietti's overnight success led to his surprise appearance on the televised gala special Life Begins at Sixty and established him as a lead actor in television.
His success in television continued, his more memorable performances in the lead role of The Wanderer (1952) and Against The Stream (1959) both Italian plays he translated and adapted for television. For American television he guest starred with his son Robert Rietty in The Jack Benny Program (1957) (in which he played two roles) and Harry's Girls (1963), both directed by his good friend Ralph Levy(Director of the first I Love Lucy as well as The Burns and Allen Show).
On July 23rd 1959 together with his son Robert, he was knighted Cavaliere by the Italian Government for their contribution to the Italian entertainment industry in particular for translating a great many popular Italian plays into English. When he had only been 35 years old he had been given 6 months to live by his doctors due to a heart condition. It wasn't till December 3rd 1963 some 40 years later that he suffered a fatal heart attack. His life story was dramatized in the BBC radio play Papa Rietti. - Writer
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Jack Rosenthal was born on 8 September 1931 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for And a Nightingale Sang (1989), The Chain (1984) and Yentl (1983). He was married to Maureen Lipman and Catherine Maxine Ward. He died on 29 May 2004 in Finchley, London, England, UK.- Writer
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Erich Segal was born on 16 June 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Love Story (1970), Yellow Submarine (1968) and A Change of Seasons (1980). He was married to Karen Marianne James. He died on 17 January 2010 in London, England, UK.- Joy Shelton was born on 3 June 1922 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Millions Like Us (1943), Impulse (1954) and The Green Finger (1946). She was married to Sydney Tafler. She died on 28 January 2000 in Surrey, England, UK.Plot: At the rear of the cemetery, in Row 83
- Sydney Tafler was born on 31 July 1916 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Operation Diplomat (1953) and It Always Rains on Sunday (1947). He was married to Joy Shelton. He died on 8 November 1979 in London, England, UK.Plot: At the rear of the cemetery, in Row 83