Bryan Forbes has died

[Guest]

Bryan Forbes, actor, film director and screen-writer has died after a long illness.

As well as many of the films mentioned in the obituary below I remember his ground-breaking caper film The League of Gentlemen and his sinister The Whisperers starring Dame Edith Evans and Eric Portman.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/08/bryan-forbes-dies

[Serial_Apologist]

Very sad indeed. I never realised he was married to Nanette Newman the actress.

[Pabmusic]

He was a good writer. I see his last film script was for Chaplin, which I thought was a good one. My favourite among them, though, is Seance On A Wet Afternoon.

[handsomefortune]

1971 interview with bf http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...1IWkPWsCk&NR=1

and 2011 interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen

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[Serial_Apologist]

1971 interview with bf http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...1IWkPWsCk&NR=1

and 2011 interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen

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Thanks for these, Hsf.

[Karafan]

The Whisperers - 1967 - with the wonderful Dame Edith Evans - for me! A neglected classic.

[amateur51]

The Whisperers - 1967 - with the wonderful Dame Edith Evans - for me! A neglected classic.

I do hope that it is released on DVD sometime soon, Karafan

[mercia]

there are a couple of bits of Whisperers on yt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kst1wNMOG3A

Whistle Down the Wind still makes me blub
high-time to get a grip

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Whistle Down the Wind still makes me blub
high-time to get a grip

Me, too, mercs - them there moors are where I were born (the year before the film was released!)

Forbes himself appeared as an actor in another of my favourite films - as Eric Burling in An Inspector Calls.

[amateur51]

there are a couple of bits of Whisperers on yt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kst1wNMOG3A

Whistle Down the Wind still makes me blub
high-time to get a grip

Many thanks for the youtube clip, mercs