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Sharp-featured, incisive Surrey-born actor whose chief trademark was a memorably mellifluous voice. This, he used to maximum effect as a tool for impersonating a gallery of suave, urbane - usually rather likeable - villains, rogues and assorted shady types. He often imbued these characters with an air of smugly superior disdain.

Alan had reinvented himself as an actor after abandoning his first profession as industrial psychologist. He made his theatrical debut in 1928 in "Heartbreak House" by by George Bernard Shaw and appeared on the London stage two years later. For the remainder of the decade, he made a living as a supporting player (with a penchant for period costume) in works by Shakespeare, John Galsworthy, J.M. Barrie, and Oscar Wilde. While preferring the intimacy offered by provincial theatre, he also shone on the grander stage of the Old Vic, and, in 1936, appeared in "St. Helena" on Broadway. That same year, he made his feature film debut in The Conquest of the Air (1931).

During World War II, Alan's voice was heard regularly as announcer and newsreader for the BBC European Service. This led to a constant stream of work as a radio actor and reader of English literature and poetry. In the course of the next three decades, he impersonated the good (detective Lord Peter Wimsey) and the bad (Othello, Judas, Richard III) with equal verve. His television career -- beginning in 1938 -- went along a similar path. Alan was the very first 'BBC Sherlock Holmes' in 1951, taking his cue for the role from the drawings of Sidney Paget and the characterisations by Arthur Conan Doyle. The six instalments (all live transmissions) were well-received but did Alan no favour: the resulting publicity led his agent to ask for higher salaries and this, in turn, led to fewer job offers.

On the big screen, Alan was best served by being the ill-fated Fred Hale in Brighton Rock (1948); the duplicitous traveller on the Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948); and the corrupt financier Mark Cruden in Delayed Action (1954). On television, he will remain the definitive incarnation of the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). Alan's sheriff is devious and cunning, a sophisticated arch villain of great clarity, an equal to the hero -- if it were not, of course, for the ineptitude of his minions. After the end of his tenure as Richard Greene's nemesis, Alan popped up as assorted police inspectors, professional types, legal eagles and men of the cloth, in many a popular series, including Danger Man (1960) and Department S (1969). He retired from the screen in 1970, and died in August 1991 in London at the age of 84.

Bertie Hare was born on 20 September 1907 in Bargoed, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977), Hancock's Half Hour (1956) and Dave's Kingdom (1964). He was married to Dorothy Dampier and Lisa Lee. He died on 30 August 1991 in Camden, London, England, UK.

Charles Hastings was a director and producer, known for Cap'n Cub (1945), The Busy Barber (1932) and Teacher's Pests (1932). He died on 30 August 1991.

Stuart Nichol was born on 10 February 1908 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952) and Our Virgin Island (1958). He died on 30 August 1991 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.

Jacob Eriksen was born on 26 May 1944 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer and production manager, known for Exodus: Humanity Has a Price, Rocking Silver (1983) and Har du set Alice? (1981). He died on 30 August 1991.

Enzo Giachino was a writer, known for Tragica notte (1942). Enzo died on 30 August 1991 in Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.

Inga Berggren was born on 4 November 1921 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. She was an actress. She was married to Carl-Gustaf Kruuse af Verchou. She died on 30 August 1991 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.

Vladimir Padrunek was born on 17 February 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He died on 30 August 1991 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].

American actress, mainly in small roles. A native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Dewey attended Smith College as a theatre student. While in college, she married New York theatre and museum director Patric Farrell, who directed the Irish Theatre at Sheridan Square. Together they had a daughter, Patricia, who later developed myasthenia gravis, leading Dewey, then long-remarried, to found the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. The marriage to Farrell was brief and Dewey embarked on a stage career. She appeared in one Broadway flop, "Be So Kindly," in 1937, then was given a contract by Paramount Pictures. She played the wife of Robert Cummings in her first film, Wells Fargo (1937), but her roles quickly diminished in size. In her last film, she played Mrs. Farrell (coincidentally her own married name), the wife of Alan Ladd, in Rulers of the Sea (1939). But by that time, she had remarried, to comic book editor Whitney Ellsworth. She left Hollywood presumably for good and settled with her daughter and new husband in Connecticut. In 1951, her husband took on the duties of producing Adventures of Superman (1952) and the family moved back to Los Angeles. Dewey devoted the rest of her life to her work with the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. Widowed in 1980, Jane Dewey Ellsworth died August 30, 1991, from emphysema.

Jean Tinguely was born on 22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for The Laughing Woman (1969), Un rêve plus long que la nuit (1976) and Träumende Maschinen (1989). He was married to Niki De Saint Phalle. He died on 30 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.