The Avengers/TNA: List of people dead in 2018

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:46 pm

I decided to create this topic, as I think that this year was the most intense in the number of people who participated in the series and left this world.

The list below is most likely not complete, however, it fully lets you feel the events of the outgoing year.

TV series

1. George A. Cooper (actor, appeared in the Avengers episodes The White Dwarf and The Curious Case of the Countless Clues, and TNA episode The Tale of the Big Why)
2. Peter Wyngarde (actor, appeared in the Avengers episodes A Touch of Brimstone and Epic)
3. Pamela Ann Davy (actress, appeared in the Avengers episodes Mission to Montreal and The Living Dead)
4. Rio Fanning (actor, appeared in the Avengers episodes Dead Man's Treasure and False Witness)
5. David Grey (actor, appeared in the Avengers episodes Girl on the Trapeze and All Done with Mirrors)
6. John Bluthal (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode Two's a Crowd)
7. Janet Hargreaves (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode Dead on Course)
8. Jacqueline Pierce (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode A Sense of History)
9. Liz Fraser (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode The Girl from Auntie)
10. Eunice Gayson (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode Quick-Quick Slow Death)
11. Carole Shelley (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode Kill the King)
12. John Greenwood (actor and fight arranger, appeared in the Avengers episode The Charmers)
13. Fenella Fielding (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode The Charmers)
14. Jill Melford (actress, appeared in TNA episode Faces)
15. Dudley Sutton (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode You'll Catch Your Death)
16. Carl Duering (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode Dead of Winter)
17. Genevieve Lyons (actress and writer, appeared in the Avengers episode Please Don't Feed the Animals)
18. Glynn Edwards (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode The Interrogators)
19. Louis Zorich (actor, appeared in TNA episode The Gladiators)
20. Thomas Kyffin (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode Dragonsfield)
21. Roy Patrick (actor, appeared in the Avengers episode The Winged Avenger)
22. Julia Arnall (actress, appeared in the Avengers episode Intercrime)
23. Ron Gregory (actor (extra), appeared in the Avengers episode Death's Door)
24. Len Belmont (ventriloquist, appeared in the Avengers episode Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...)
25. Mark McBride (stuntman, appeared at least in the Avengers episodes My Wildest Dream and You'll Catch Your Death)
26. Peter Brace (stuntman, participated in The Avengers/TNA)
27. Maggie Cartier (casting director for British TNA episodes)
28. Michael Ford (assistant art director for six British TNA episodes)
29. Stephen Doncaster (production designer for Avengers episode Conspiracy of Silence)
30. Robert Norris (the advertising controller for The Avengers and marketing adviser for TNA).
31. Ronnie Taylor (camera operator for some b/w Emma Peel episodes)
32. Carol Hanley (worked on TNA staff in production period of all Canadian episodes)

Unconfirmed:
Beryl Martin (stunt performer, participated in The Avengers according to the newspaper Marylebone Mercury from 12 April 1968).

Radio series

Donald Monat (actor, played Steed)

Feature film

William Hobbs (Swordfight arrangements)

Book

Justin Cartwright (writer of TNA book "Fighting Men")

Post by **Allard** » Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:32 pm

Thank you for compiling this list, it was wondering about who it all was we lost this last year. It was a year in which we lost many Avengers people, and few will be left soon.

hatpeg · Post by **hatpeg** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:07 pm

Thank you for compiling this.
I remember mooring next to Glyn Edwards on the Thames many years ago.
In a nod to his role in Minder, his narrowboat was called *The Winchester".

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:20 am

List is updated.

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:45 am

denis rigg wrote:List is updated.

thanks for putting this out there..amazing list, sadly, some great talent in all fields of the show, have left this mortal coil. 58 years ago, the show made it's UK debut...how time flies...

J.Mac3 · Post by **J.Mac3** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:37 pm

What's striking about this list is the number of women on it. For a long time, it was by far the male actors who were dying, a reflection of the fact that women tend to live a little longer but more the fact that most of the female guest stars were younger than their male counterparts at the time of the filming of The Avengers. But the years are now catching up to all them (to us, too!). It's sad to see them go.

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:16 am

List is modernized and updated.

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:03 pm

Maggie Cartier and Michael Ford are added to the list.

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:09 am

Justin Cartwright is added to the list.

denis rigg · Post by **denis rigg** » Tue May 07, 2019 4:20 pm

Julia Arnall is added to the list.

Sad news came recently. Julia died in Brighton, Sussex on November 8, 2018, at the age of 89 years.
This is confirmed by Anсestry.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/categor ... ouse_x=1_1

Her first husband's name is not Desmond Arnall, but Derrick Arnall.

Page of Julia on IMDb:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0036003/