(8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016)
Pop musician of world renown whose first major film role was in Nic Roeg’s The Man Who Came to Earth (1976). His 40 or so movie and TV appearances including Just a Gigolo, The Hunger, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Absolute Beginners, Labyrinth, The Last Temptation of Christ, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Warhol’s Basquiat, and voice-overs for Arthur and the Invisibles and the SpongeBob SquarePants TV series.
MICHAEL DARVELL
Michael Darvell
Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.
