Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who captured the majesty of the desert in his music for "Lawrence of Arabia" and wrote the haunting "Lara's Theme" in his score for "Doctor Zhivago," has died. He was 84. Jarre died in his villa in California, where he had lived ...

No 36 Trevor Howard 1913-1988 Born in Kent, the son of a Lloyd's representative in Ceylon, he was the creation of the professional middle-class, the public-school tradition and the Empire. The professional men Howard played over more than half a century - doctors, soldiers, colonial officials - embodied and criticised this background. At Clifton College, he demonstrated a prowess at cricket ...

Sir John Mills, who has died aged 97, began his acting career in the theatre and returned quite frequently, and with distinction, to the stage in later years. But it was in the cinema that his energies were most often expended, and it is as a dependable British screen personality, over several decades and more than 100 movies, that he ...

I spend a good deal of time at the video-rental store these days: part of the prep any theatre critic has to do to keep pace with the medium's increasing reliance on movies. But, even as a former cinephile and film critic, I share the anxiety of many dramatists that theatre's current craven dependence on well-known movie titles ...