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11 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Actor known for his stage role as Frank in Educating Rita

Mark Kingston, who has died of cancer aged 77, was known as a generous actor who allowed others to shine. In the theatre, he exhibited this best in Willy Russell's Educating Rita, as the university lecturer Frank, who earns extra money by tutoring a brash, earthy Open University student, Rita (played by Julie Walters); as she questions traditional attitudes to learning, Frank begins to reassess them himself. The play was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1980 at the Warehouse, in London, before it transferred to the Piccadilly theatre and won the Society of West End Theatre's award for best comedy.

When Educating Rita was turned into a film, Kingston suffered a frequent irritation for actors – being replaced by a "name" (Michael Caine), while Walters's big-screen career was launched after Russell managed to fight off the »

- Anthony Hayward

6 October 2011 6:46 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Diane Cilento, a tall, voluptuous, sometimes blonde/sometimes brunette beauty best remembered for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1963 Oscar winner Tom Jones, died in Cairns, in the north of Queensland, according to an online report in the Australian publication The Newsport/Port Douglas Daily. The report says Cilento was 81; as per the IMDb, she had turned 78 yesterday. The cause of death, "after a long battle with illness," hasn't been disclosed. Born to a family of doctors on Oct. 5, 1933, in Brisbane, Queensland, Cilento began her film career in British and British-set Hollywood productions of the early 1950s. By mid-decade, Cilento was already getting cast in leads and semi-leads, in mid-level fare such as Roy Ward Baker's Passage Home (1955), opposite Anthony Steel and Peter Finch, and Alan Bromly's The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1956), in the title role as an angel who, in order to fulfill her mission on Earth, »

- Andre Soares

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