SAEED JAFFREY

16 Nov

(8 January 1929 - 15 November 2015)

Indian actor first in theatre and radio during the 1950s, then came to the UK, studied at RADA, toured Shakespeare in the US and worked at the Actors’ Studio in New York. Appeared in The Jewel in the Crown and many other TV productions. Films include Merchant-Ivory’s The Guru, and he worked for directors Lean, Attenborough and Satyajit Ray in A Passage to India, Gandhi and The Chess Players etc plus many Bollywood films. Married the cook and actress Madhur Jaffrey.

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.

SAEED JAFFREY

ROBERT LOGGIA

WARREN MITCHELL