Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts - who was born on September 20th, 1927, in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales - was an award-winning Welsh actress.  The youngest of two daughters born to Richard (a church minister) and Rachel Ann Roberts, she studied at the University of Wales and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, before beginning work with a repertory company in Swansea in 1950.  She made her film debut in the 1953 Welsh-set comedy, Valley of Song.  In 1955, Roberts married the actor Alan Dobie, but they divorced in 1960.  That same year (1960), she won a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and in 1963 won a further BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for her role in This Sporting Life.  In 1961, Roberts married the English actor Rex Harrison in Genoa, Italy.  The marriage was tumultuous, with both partners engaging in excessive drinking, as well as engaging in public fights.  Harrison later left Roberts, and they divorced in 1971, with Harrison going on to marry Roberts's former best friend, the British socialite, Elizabeth Rees-Williams.  Devastated by her divorce from Harrison, Roberts moved to Hollywood in 1975 in an attempt to put the failed marriage behind her, subsequently appearing in supporting roles in several American films, such as Foul Play in 1978.  In 1976, she won a Drama Desk award for her performance in the Alan Bennett play, Habeas Corpus, and in 1979 she co-starred in the LWT production of Bennett's The Old Crowd.  Roberts's final British film was Yanks, directed by John Schlesinger, in 1979, for which she received a Supporting Actress BAFTA.  Roberts had become known within the entertainment industry for her eccentric behaviour, that seemed to stem from her alcoholism.  She had a habit of imitating a Welsh Corgi when intoxicated; and once, at a party thrown by the actor Richard Harris, she attacked the actor Robert Mitchum on all fours, chewing his trousers and champing on his bare skin, saying, "There, there".  In 1980, Roberts tried desperately to win back Harrison, but it was a hopeless case, as by this time he was married to his sixth and final wife, Mercia Tinker.  By 1980, Roberts was living on-and-off with a Mexican man twenty years her junior, Darren Ramirez, although the relationship was largely platonic as Roberts had become obsessed with winning back Harrison.  On November 26th, 1980, Roberts's body was found by her gardener - lying amongst shards of broken glass on her kitchen floor - at her home in Los Angeles.  Initially attributed to a heart attack, Roberts had in fact fallen through a decorative glass divide between two rooms, after swallowing a strong alkali, as well as barbiturates and alcohol, as detailed in her posthumously-published journals.  Roberts was cremated at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory, with her journals becoming the basis for No Bells on Sunday: The Memoirs of Rachel Roberts.  In 1992, Roberts's ashes - along with her friend, the actress Jill Bennett (who took her own life in 1990) - were scattered on the River Thames by director Lindsay Anderson during a boat trip.  The event was included in Anderson's BBC documentary film, Is That All There Is?  Rachel Roberts was 53 years old.

Bob Carlos Clarke

Robert Carlos Clarke - who was born on June 24th, 1950, in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland - was an Irish photographer, who was best-known for his highly-stylized erotic images of women.  From a fading aristocratic family, and the son of Charles Carlos Clarke and his much-younger secretary Myra Dora Lynn, Clarke was sent to boarding school in England, which he hated.  On returning on one occasion from school to Ireland, he found his place in the family home had been usurped after his mother had given birth to a younger brother, Andrew.  Bob didn't like having a sibling rival, and would abuse his brother, including nailing him into a box and pushing him downhill.  (Andrew died of a heroin overdose in 2008.)  At the age of sixteen, Clarke broke up with a girl who had threatened to kill herself if he did so.  Clarke charmingly send her a letter containing a bullet and a note saying, "This one's on me."  After school, and a brief spell in Belfast, Clarke enrolled at Worthing College of Art in West Sussex in 1970.  Around this time, he began photographing nudes for "Gentleman's" Magazines.  Whilst at college, Clarke met Sue Frame, a part-time model; the pair married in 1975.  By 1975, he had enrolled at the London College of Printing, and that same year graduated with an M.A. in photography from the Royal College of Art.  Frame was Clarke's muse for nine years, but it was after only two years of marriage that Sue realised he was having an affair with Lindsey, who would become his second wife, as well as "dabbling" with other women.  Sue Frame claimed that Clarke said about her: "I will kill you first before you leave me."  Frame soon divorced Clarke and moved to South Africa, the two never meeting again.  In 1992, Lindsey gave birth to Clarke's only child, Scarlett, and Lindsey became his second wife in 1997.  Lindsey later described Carlos Clarke as, "amoral".  Carlos Clarke's career took off in 1980, when he produced the photographs for a book of Anais Nin's erotic stories, Delta of Venus.  A series of glossy coffee-table books followed through until the early 2000s, and he became renowned for his portraits of celebrities, as well as producing advertising campaigns for Levi's, Smirnoff, and Volkswagen.  In 1990, he produced a book, White Heat, featuring the then-largely-unknown chef Marco Pierre White looking like a rock star in his white-hot kitchens.  Apparently, in the late-1990s, Clarke began to become disillusioned with himself and his career.  He saw the recent innovation of digital photography as a threat to the skills he had spent decades honing.  By September of 2005, Clarke was behaving oddly.  His wife would often find he had gone missing from the flat they shared with their daughter; she sometimes found him sitting in his van, muttering darkly about suicide, and admitting, "I don't know what I'm doing."  In March of 2006, Lindsey persuaded Clarke to check into The Priory Clinic for psychiatric treatment.  After two weeks, he seemed to be improving.  However, on March 26th, 2006, Clarke walked out of The Priory, and took himself a mile to The White Hart Lane level-crossing, near Barnes, south-west London, where he threw himself under the passing 10.53 Windsor to Waterloo train.  Bob Carlos Clarke was 55 years old.

Margot Kidder

Margaret Ruth Kidder - who was born on October 17th, 1948, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada - was a Canadian-American actress and activist.  One of five children, she moved frequently throughout Canada due to her father's occupation as an explosives expert and engineer.  At age twelve, her mother took Kidder to New York to see the musical Bye Bye Birdie, which stimulated her interest in theatre and film.  At fourteen, Kidder attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle of codeine capsules after her boyfriend broke up with her.  About this time, she took up acting, graduating from high school in Toronto in 1966, the same year in which she had an illegal abortion after finding herself pregnant.  Kidder then relocated to Vancouver to study at the University of British Columbia, but dropped out after one year, returning to Toronto to work as a model.  Kidder made her film debut in the 1968 Canadian film The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar.  Her 1969 appearance in the drama series Corwin earned her a Canadian Film Award for "outstanding new talent".  In the 1970s, Kidder began a relationship with the film director Brian De Palma, and he cast her in the lead role in his acclaimed 1973 film, Sisters.  Kidder won two Canadian Film Awards for Best Actress in 1974, and that same year made her directorial debut with the 50-minute film, Again.  In 1975, she was hired to direct a documentary short film about the making of the film The Missouri Breaks, but was fired from the project.  After becoming romantically involved with the novelist and director Thomas McGuane, Kidder gave birth to their daughter, Maggie, in October, 1975.  The couple married on August 2nd, 1976, but divorced on July 21st, 1977.  In 1978, Kidder was cast in her most-iconic role as Lois Lane in the box-office smash, Superman, winning a Saturn Award for Best Actress in the process.  The Amityville Horror in 1979 further cemented Kidder as one of Hollywood's leading ladies.  She married the actor John Heard that year, but they separated after only six days of marriage, and divorced in 1980.  The 1980s saw Kidder star in three sequels to the original Superman film.  Early in the decade, she was romantically linked to the comedian Eddie Murphy and the Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, although neither relationship lasted long.  In 1984, she produced and starred in the Canadian T.V. film, Louisiana, having already married the film's director Phillipe de Broca in France in 1983.  Once again, this marriage - Kidder's third and final - was shortlived, ending in divorce in 1984.  Kidder received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 1988, although she rejected the recommended lithium treatment.  1990 saw her seriously injured in a car accident on the set of a T.V. series she was making, rendering her partially paralysed for a while, and unable to work for two years.  The lawsuit she launched, from which she received no settlement, left her in subsequent financial difficulties.  Whilst working on her autobiography on her laptop computer in April, 1996, a virus wiped out all her hard work, and she travelled to California hoping a company there would be able to retrieve the lost work.  They were unsuccessful, and Kidder then entered a manic state, disappearing for four days.  She was found in a distressed state, having lost caps on her teeth after an attempted rape, and was placed in psychiatric care.  However, Kidder continued to act regularly up until 2017, as well as lending her support to environmental and anti-nuclear causes.  She became an American citizen in 2005, and spent her later years living alone with her dogs in a log cabin.  On May 13th, 2018, Kidder was visited by her friend, Joan Kesich, who found her unresponsive at her home in Livingston, Montana.  Kidder's agent initially stated that, "she passed away peacefully in her sleep", but an inquest later revealed her death was a suicide as "a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose".  Kidder was cremated, and her ashes scattered at her favourite locations in Canada, as well as in the wilds of Montana, amongst the bears and wolves she so loved.  Margot Kidder was 69 years old.

Ted Moult

Edward Walker Moult - who was born on February 11th, 1926, in Derby, England - was a British farmer, who later became a well-known television- and radio-personality in the United Kingdom.  The eldest of the six children of William Moult, Ted grew up on the family's farm in Derbyshire.  He left Derby School in 1944 at the age of 17, and by the age of 22 had his own dairy farm at Sinfin on the outskirts of Derby.  Moult first came to public attention in the 1950s, when he appeared on BBC Radio's general knowledge quiz, Brain of Britain.  Despite being knocked out in the first round, his quick wit and "gift of the gab" was noticed by BBC producers.  This quirky mixture of eccentric farmer, sharp intelligence, and comedic timing, proved a hit with audiences, and he was invited onto discussion programmes such as Any Questions?, and panel games such as Ask Me Another and What's My Line?  By the mid-1960s, Moult had become a household name.  He was credited with introducing the concept of "pick-your-own"  strawberries at his farm in 1961, and was the subject of This is Your Life with Eamonn Andrews in February of 1964.  Moult's media appearances continued throughout the 1960s and '70s, being a regular guest on Call My Bluff and Celebrity Squares.  He was the presenter of the Farming documentary programme from 1959-'69, as well as playing the Story Teller in the children's show Play School from 1964-'71.  Moult also took small parts as an actor, appearing in a 1980 episode of the television series All Creatures Great and Small, and playing the part of Bill Insley in the BBC Radio 4 farming-themed soap opera, The Archers, from 1983-'86.  In 1976, he starred in a popular television commercial for Jacob's Cream Crackers, and in the 1980s fronted a series of adverts for Everest double-glazing.  Moult's autobiography, Down To Earth: The Life and Views of Ted Moult, was published in 1973, and in 1983 he appeared as a celebrity guest on darts-themed gameshow, Bullseye, winning £180 for charity.  In 1986, several weeks of wet weather lead to worry for arable farmers like Ted trying to gather their harvests.  His wife said that the normally cheerful Ted had become withdrawn, and that, "he suddenly became massively depressed, and his judgement seemed to fail.  All his optimism seemed to evaporate.  It was almost as though a curtain fell over his life."  Moult had persuaded himself that he was never going to get his grain into the barn.  On the morning of September 3rd, 1986, he locked himself into his office and shot himself dead.  He was survived by his wife, Marie Rose - known as Maria - (1932-2014), and several (at least four!) children.  After a private funeral, his life was celebrated at a public ceremony in Derby Cathedral.  He was buried in the parish churchyard in Ticknall, the small village where he farmed.  Ted Moult was 60 years old.

Danny Kelleher

Daniel John Michael Kelleher - who was born on May 5th, 1966, in Southwark, London, England - was an English cricketer.  The son of John Kelleher and his wife, and the nephew of Harry Kelleher - who had played cricket for Surrey and Northamptonshire in the 1950s - Danny Kelleher was educated at St. Mary's Grammar School in Sidcup and at Erith College of Technology.  He represented Kent Schools at both rugby and cricket, and toured British Columbia with Kent Under-17s in 1983.  Kelleher was talent-spotted whilst playing at Dartford Cricket Club, joining Kent in 1985, and making his first-team debut two years later.  A popular and exuberant medium-fast bowler, Kelleher had a highly-promising first season, topping Kent's bowling  averages in 1987 with 34 wickets at an excellent average of 25.82.  That season, he took the only two five-wicket hauls of his career: 5 for 76 against Surrey at Tunbridge Wells, and a career-best 6 for 109 against Somerset at Bath.  In 1988, Kelleher scored a 42-ball 50 against the touring West Indians, with four sixes and five fours.  The following summer, 1989, he attained his highest first-class score: 53 not out against Derbyshire at Dartford.  However, as injuries began to affect his form, Kelleher found himself in and out of the side, and he was released by Kent at the end of the 1991 season.  Surrey signed him on a match-only contract the following summer, but he was unable to break into their side, and was released in 1993 having made no first-team appearances in two years.  Around this time, his girlfriend, an actress, also walked-out on him.  In 34 first-class matches, Keller scored 565 runs at an average of 15.27, with two 50s, and took 77 wickets at an average of 32.89.  In 31 List A (Limited-overs) matches, he scored 91 runs at 9.10, and took 22 wickets at 41.81.  Kelleher found a post coaching cricket in Argentina in 1994, but was unhappy there, and returned to England for the final time for a Christmas family gathering that year.  From there onwards, Kelleher's life began to gradually decline.  He wrote to several counties asking for a trial, but received no offers, although he did play a few second-team games for Glamorgan.  Kelleher's father said: "He became more depressed and anti-social, and developed a bit of a drink problem... He was a shy lad, who hid it under an extrovert bravado."  During 1995, Kelleher was prescribed anti-depressant tablets, and began to withdraw from his family, keeping himself to himself, and often not returning phone calls.  He made two suicide attempts, described by his father as, "Nothing more than cries for help".  On December 12th, 1995, having not seen his son for a while, John Kelleher went round to Danny's flat in Barnehurst, south-east London, only to come across his dead body, with bottles of alcohol and pills, and a suicide note, nearby.  Kelleher had killed himself by taking an overdose of Prozac.  Grahame Clinton, Kelleher's former coach at Surrey, later said: "Danny was a talented boy who always gave 100% on the field.  But he was also idle, and not prepared to put in the effort when he was not playing."  Clinton went on to say that he thought that most county clubs cared little about their former players.  Danny Kelleher was just 29 years old.

Albert Trott

Albert Edwin Trott - who was born on February 6th, 1873, in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia - was an Australian cricketer, who had the unusual distinction of playing international cricket for both Australia and England.  One of eight children of Adolphus and Mary-Ann Trott, Albert's older brother, Harry, also played Test cricket for Australia.  A keen and determined cricketer from a young age, after only three first-class games for Victoria, Trott made his debut for Australia in the Third Test against England at Adelaide in 1895.  Playing with his brother Harry, and batting at number ten, Trott scored 110 runs without being dismissed in this match, whilst also taking 8 for 43 in England's second innings.  At the end of this series, which England won 3-2, Trott's Test batting average stood at 102.5, making it surprising he was not selected for the 1896 tour of England under the captainship of his brother, Harry.  Instead, Trott sailed to England independently, playing for M.C.C. from 1896, and for Middlesex from 1898.  In late 1896, he briefly returned to Australia, where he married 21-year-old Jessie Rice in 1897, before settling with her in England permanently.  In 1898, Trott became the leading wicket-taker in England, and in 1899 was one of Wisden's cricketers of the year after achieving the double of 200 wickets and 1,000 runs in the season.  Between December, 1898, and April, 1899, Trott played two matches for England against South Africa in South Africa which were retrospectively awarded Test status.  In those games, he scored 23 runs at 5.75, and took 17 wickets at 11.64.  When the Australians toured Britain in 1899, Trott, playing against them for M.C.C., achieved the feat for which he is still best-remembered: batting against Monty Noble, he hit a delivery over the Lord's pavilion and out of the ground, something not matched by any batsman since.  At this stage, Trott was considered the leading bowler in the world, and one of the top all-rounders, although he never played Test cricket again because both Australia and England both considered him, essentially, a foreigner.  He settled into a comfortable terraced house in Willesden, with his wife bearing him two daughters, Jessie and Mabel.  Trott's bowling quickly declined from its peak in 1899, when he took 239 wickets, to 1905, when he took only 62.  He drank heavily, and his weight increased rapidly, and he became known for his extramarital liaisons with women.  He had a brief renaissance in 1907, when, in his benefit match against Somerset, he took four wickets in four balls, and then took a hat-trick later in the same innings - the first time that two hat-tricks had been taken in the same first-class innings (and something that has only been achieved once since).  However, the subsequent early finish meant that the game only raised £800, leading Trott to comment that he had "bowled himself into the poorhouse".  Retiring in 2010, Trott took up umpiring, although by this time his wife had left him and returned to Australia with their children.  Trott himself left the family home, moving into lodgings.  In August of 1913, Trott received news that his father had entered an asylum, where he died that November.  His own health was also declining, as he developed dropsy, as well as a heart condition which was complicated by kidney pains.  In July of 1914, Trott's heart problems lead to him being hospitalised, but he discharged himself on July 28th.  On July 30th, he asked his landlady to bring him sleeping pills, but the chemist refused to supply them without a prescription.  Trott reportedly said, "I don't think I can get through another night", and proceeded to write his will on the back of a laundry ticket.  Following this, broke and broken, and wracked by days of pain, Albert Trott shot himself in the temple with a pistol at his lodgings in Harlesden, Middlesex, England.  He was 41 years old.       

Huw Weekes

Huw Weekes - who was born on January 22nd, 1957, in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales - was a British journalist and broadcaster.  The son of Philip Weekes, a senior National Coal Board official, Weekes was brought up in Aberdare.  He began his journalistic career at the age of eighteen as a cub reporter on the Weston Mercury weekly newspaper in Weston-Super-Mare in the south-west of England, before joining the Bristol Evening Post.  Weekes's first broadcasting job was as a reporter on BBC Radio Newcastle in 1980.  In 1982, he joined Yorkshire Television as a sub-editor, graduating to a presenter's role on YTV's nightly news magazine, Calendar.  Following another presenting role at Tyne Tees Television, Weekes returned to south Wales in 1988, joining HTV Wales in Cardiff.  He stayed with HTV for thirteen years, becoming a well-loved newsreader on the channel.  He was described by HTV Wales Controller and Programmes Director, Elis Owen, as "...a first-class journalist, an excellent broadcaster, and a good colleague.", and "...one of the cornerstones of the HTV news operation for many years, and was well-known and popular...".  Weekes settled in Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan with his wife, Sue, and his three children: Jennifer, Robert, and Alice.  In September of 2000, Weekes - who was described by a work colleague as "an up-and-down kind of person" - was diagnosed with clinical depression.  On the evening of January 17th, 2001, one of Weekes's work colleagues - fellow newsreader, Tara Eugene - received a phone call from Weekes, saying that he had driven to a remote car-park with a bottle of wine and some sleeping-pills, and was planning to ingest them and freeze to death.  Weekes also said that a car had then pulled-up nearby, which he took as a sign not to go through with his plan.  Miss Eugene later tried to contact Weekes at his flat, without success, before contacting Weekes's sister to inform her of his distress.  His sister got no answer when she called at his Cardiff flat, assuming he had gone to bed, as he had to be in the news studio early the next morning.  Weekes had been due to arrive at work in Cardiff at 5 a.m. on January 18th, as he was scheduled to read the morning news bulletins, but he failed to turn up.  Concerned colleagues called his home, but to no avail.  Later that day, Weekes's dead body was found on Boverton Beach, where he used to play with his children, just two miles from his Llantwit Major home.  An inquest revealed that he had died by drowning after taking an overdose of Temazepam sleeping pills and some alcohol.  There were also rumours that Weekes and his wife had been having marital difficulties.  Huw Weekes was just 43 years old.

Laurie Bird

Laurie Bird - who was born on September 26th, 1952, in Glen Cove, New York, U.S.A. - was an American actress and photographer.  When she was only three years old, Bird's mother committed suicide at the age of 26.  Her disciplinarian father, an electrical engineer, severely restricted Bird's social activities, resulting in her running away from home many times.  In response, he had her placed in an institution for neglected girls.  Bird attended Jamaica High School in Queens, New York, until she was fifteen.  Described by Hollywood columnist Dick Kleiner as "look[ing] like an innocent Hayley Mills", Bird made her acting debut in the 1971 Monte Hellman-directed film, Two-Lane Blacktop, in which she appeared alongside James Taylor, Warren Oates, and Dennis Wilson.  Following this success, Bird appeared in another Monte Hellmann film, 1974's Cockfighter, again starring alongside Warren Oates.  Although this film was less commercially-successful, film critic Michael Atkinson was later to say, in his 2008 book Exile Hollywood, "In two films, she made more of an impression, left more of a synaesthetic presence, then many actors do in a career".  During this time, she developed a romantic relationship with Monte Hellman.  Bird was also the stills photographer on Cockfighter.  In 1977, she performed in her third and final film, taking a minor role as Paul Simon's girlfriend in the Woody Allen comedy, Annie Hall.  From 1974 until 1979, Bird was in a relationship with Simon's frequent musical collaborator, Art Garfunkel, the couple sharing an apartment together.  She appeared on the cover of Garfunkel's 1975 album, Breakaway, and also shot the cover photo for his 1977 album, Watermark.  On June 15th, 1979 - whilst Garfunkel was in France, making the Nicolas Roeg movie Bad Timing - Bird died from a deliberate overdose of Valium at their penthouse in Manhatten, New York City, U.S.A.  Deeply affected by her death, Garfunkel later said, "She was beautiful, in a lonesome, haunted way, and I adored her.  But I wasn't ready for marriage and she wasn't very comfortable being Laurie.  She wasn't happy with herself.  Her mother died by suicide at 26, and so did she".  Garfunkel dedicated his 1981 album, Scissors Cut, to Bird, with a photo of her appearing on its back cover.  Monte Hellman dedicated his 2010 film, Road To Nowhere, to her, also.  Laurie Bird was just 26 years old.

Stuart Adamson

William Stuart Adamson - who was born on April 11th, 1958 - was an English-born Scottish rock guitarist and singer, most-famous as the the frontman of the pop-rock band, Big Country.  Born in Manchester, England, to Scottish parents William and Anne (nee Muir), at the age of four Adamson's family relocated to the small mining town of Crossgates (about a mile east of Dunfermline) in Fife, Scotland.  Educated at Beath High School in Cowdenbeath, Adamson formed the Dunfermline band Tattoo in 1976, before creating Skids, who performed in the Edinburgh area, in 1977.  Skids' biggest success was the song Into The Valley which reached number 10 in the U.K. singles chart in March of 1979.  After four charting singles that year, Adamson quit the band in 1980, forming Big Country the following year.  The band's first hit, Fields of Fire, reached number 10 on the U.K. singles chart in 1983, and was also a success in New Zealand and the U.S.  The subsequent album, The Crossing, powered by the single In a Big Country, reached at least the top-20 in North America as well as New Zealand and the U.K.  Big Country's following three albums all reached the top ten in the U.K., although were less-successful abroad.  The band continued recording studio albums and touring until 1999, although with gradually-decreasing record sales.  In November of 1999, Adamson went missing for a time, causing Big Country to have to cancel stadium gigs supporting Bryan Adams on a tour of Scotland.  With his first wife Sandra, Adamson had two children - Callum (born: 1982) and Kirsten (born: 1985) - who both became musicians.  Adamson had struggled with alcoholism in his earlier years, but became sober around 1990.  In 1996, he split with his first wife and moved to Nashville, U.S.A., where, in 1999, he married Melanie Shelley, a hairdresser.  Whilst in the U.S., Adamson founded his final band: an alternative-country duo called The Raphaels with Nashville songwriter Marcus Hummon.  Adamson's alcoholism began returning in the early 2000s, and he had been due to face drink-driving charges in March of 2002, and had been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous.  On November 26th, 2001, Adamson's second wife reported him missing; the pair had been estranged for six weeks at the time, and his wife had filed for divorce on the day he disappeared.  Adamson disappeared after leaving a note for his son Callum on Wednesday, November 7th, saying, "Back by noon, Sunday."  Appeals were put out for his whereabouts, including by his former Big Country bandmate, Bruce Watson.  The last clue to his location was a credit card transaction record, showing that he had checked out of the Best Western Hotel on Music Row, Nashville, on December 3rd.  On December 16th, 2001, Adamson's dead body was found in a room he had booked into in the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.  According to a local police report, he had committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical cord from a pole in a wardrobe.  A subsequent Coroner's Office report found that he had consumed a "very strong" amount of alcohol around the time of his death.  Stuart Adamson was 43 years old.

Annie St. John

Ann Florence Heywood - who was born on September 8th, 1954, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England - was a British television presenter.  Growing up in Blackpool, Lancashire, she attended Blackpool Collegiate Grammar School for Girls and the Rose Bruford Drama School.  As a young woman, she worked as a mahout (an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper) at the Blackpool Tower Circus, and performed at repertory theatre in Bolton, Salisbury, and at the Young Vic in London.  In 1976, she married the actor, Michael St. John.  Annie first made her name on television in 1978, working as a hostess on the first two series of the networked Yorkshire Television gameshow, 3-2-1, before joining HTV West in 1981 as a newsreader and continuity announcer.  Her popularity in the West-Country was such that viewers launched a Save Our Annie campaign when she left the station in 1983 to join Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle.  During her time at Tyne Tees, St. John continued to freelance for HTV West and also for London Weekend Television.  As well as announcing duties, she presented various regional programmes, including Ask Oscar; a weekly What's On programme; It's Nearly Saturday; and the advice series, Problems.  By the late 1980s, St. John had become one of the main anchors of the nightly regional news programme, HTV News, alongside Bruce Hockin and Richard Wyatt, whilst still pursuing her continuity role.  She also presented a request show for the local independent radio station, Radio West.  In November of 1990, after colleagues became concerned when she failed to turn up for work, HTV director of programming Derek Clark and a staff rigger went to her flat in Baltic Wharf, Bristol, where they found St. John naked and semi-conscious on a bed, clutching a teddy-bear, having taken an overdose of champagne and drugs.  She was able to confirm to an ambulanceman that she had taken 80 tablets from two bottles that were found by her bed.  Apparently, St. John suffered a heart attack shortly after arriving in hospital, which left her in a vegetative condition.  On Monday, December 10th, 1990 - 38 days after taking the overdose - she died in hospital.  St. John's funeral was held at St. Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol, and she was cremated in the city.  Her grave is located at Carleton Cemetery in her hometown of Blackpool.  Survived by her husband of 14 years, Michael, an inquest later recorded a verdict of suicide.  It also transpired that St. John had been having an affair with Nick Kerswell, an HTV journalist, for six months before her death; although, on the evening of her overdose, she had been sharing a drink for forty minutes with her estranged husband.  Her husband later said that she had mentioned having a row with someone, but didn't want to dwell on it, and otherwise she seemed fine.  A briefcase found in her house contained several letters and photographs addressed to Kerswell, which he claimed to have destroyed after reading.  Pathologist Nicholas Rooney attributed St. John's death to bronchial pneumonia caused by a cerebral haemmorhage.  Annie St. John was just 36 years old.

Angela Scoular

Angela Margaret Scoular - who was born on November 8th, 1945, in London, England - was an English actress and "Bond Girl".  Her father was an engineer, and she was the niece of the Australian-born actress, Margaret Johnston, who encouraged her to take up acting.  After attending St. George's School in Harpenden, and Queen's College in Harley Street, London, Scoular studied at RADA.  Her first acting role was on the television series No Hiding Place in 1963.  A few more T.V. roles culminated in her landing the part of "Buttercup" in the 1967 James Bond film, Casino Royale.  That same year, Scoular played the lead role of "Cathy" in a BBC adaption of Wuthering Heights.  In 1969, she once again became a "Bond Girl", when she played "Ruby" in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.  Numerous more parts followed, including a stint in Coronation Street in 1972.  Scoular met the actor Leslie Phillips in 1976 when they appeared in a play together, moving in together the following year.  At the time, Phillips, who was 21 years her senior, was still married to his first wife, who had been crippled by a stroke, whilst Scoular was pregnant with another actor's child.  They raised her son, Daniel, together, and Scoular became stepmother to Phillips's four children.  After Phillips's first wife died in a house fire in 1981, he married Scoular in 1982.  In later years, Scoular had prominent parts in the BBC series You Rang, M'Lord? from 1988 to 1993, and As Time Goes By in 1996.  By this time, she was drinking heavily, and had been suffering from anorexia nervosa and mood swings.  In 1992, she attempted to commit suicide by slashing her wrists.  She was found by her husband, who said that he had saved her from being sectioned in a psychiatric hospital years earlier.  Scoular was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008; despite being declared cancer-free after treatment, she was haunted by thoughts of it returning.  In early 2011, she was arrested for drink-driving after crashing her car in Wales.  On April 11th, 2011, at her home in Maida Vale, Scoular, suffering from severe depression, ingested drain cleaner, which contained 91% sulphuric acid, also pouring it over her body, causing non-survivable 40% burns to her throat, body, and dietary tract.  She was pronounced dead at a Central London hospital at 5.28 p.m. that day.  A coroner's inquest concluded that Scoular killed herself "while the balance of her mind was disturbed", curiously adding that the death was not a suicide.  The cause of death was listed as "ingestion of a corrosive substance and multiple fractures".  At the time of her death, Scoular was on medication for bipolar disorder, had anxiety about debts, and was drinking between 150 and 210 units of alcohol a week.  Angela Scoular was 65 years old.

Ian Curtis

Ian Kevin Curtis - who was born on July 15th, 1956, in Stretford, Lancashire, England - was an English singer-songwriter and musician, best-known as the lead-singer and lyricist of the post-punk band, Joy Division.  He was the second of two children born to Kevin and Doreen Curtis, and grew up in Macclesfield, Cheshire.  An intelligent child, Curtis was awarded a scholarship to the independent King's School at the age of eleven.  Winning several scholastic awards whilst there, he eventually left with nine 'O'-Levels.  As part of a school project, Curtis chose to visit elderly people in their homes; he and his friends would pilfer prescription drugs from them, on one occasion Curtis being found unconscious after a Largactil overdose.  With little money, but an increasing love for music, he would also steal records from local shops.  After dropping out of 'A'-Level studies, he got a job in a record store, before becoming employed in the civil service.  Curtis met Deborah Woodruff in 1972, and they married in August of 1975; they had one child, Natalie, born in 1979.  In 1976, he met three musicians - Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Terry Mason - at a Sex Pistols concert in Manchester.  The four, along with drummer Stephen Morris, eventually named themselves Joy Division, with Curtis becoming their lead-singer, lyricist, and sometime guitarist.  They only released one album, 1979's Unknown Pleasures, which did not chart, during Curtis's lifetime.  Curtis became renowned for his awkward stage persona, and his peculiar dancing, which seemed to mimic the epileptic fits which he began experiencing from 1978.  The epilepsy was severe, but Curtis continued drinking and smoking and sleeping irregularly, contrary to medical advice.  Medication he began taking for the condition caused him to become irritable and depressed.  In 1979, he began an affair with music journalist and promoter, Annik Honore.  In April of 1980, Curtis suffered two epileptic seizures in one day, both onstage and at different concerts.  On April 6th that year, he made his first definite suicide attempt.  By this time, his marriage was floundering, and his wife began divorce proceedings against him.  Curtis's final live performance with Joy Division was at Birmingham University on May 2nd, 1980.  On the evening of May 17th, 1980, Curtis asked his wife to drop divorce proceedings; mindful of his fragile mental state, she agreed to spend the night with him, subsequently driving to her parents' home to inform them of her intentions.  However, on returning to Curtis's place, he told her of his intention to spend the night alone, and so she left again.  It seems that Curtis spent much of that night listening to music and watching films.  When Deborah Curtis returned to her husband's house the next morning, May 18th, she found that he had hanged himself from a washing-line in the kitchen.  He had left a suicide note in which he proclaimed his love for his wife.  At the time of his suicide, Joy Division were on the eve of their first North American tour, and it was speculated that Curtis's intense fear of flying, along with his concerns as to how American audiences would react to his epilepsy, may have further enhanced his depressed state.  Two months after Curtis died, Joy Division released one more album - Closer, which reached no. 6 in the U.K. charts - before disbanding.  Ian Curtis was just 23 years old.

Charles Roberts IV

Charles Carl Roberts IV - who was born on December 7th, 1973, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. - was an American truck driver who murdered five Amish girls, before killing himself.  The son of Charles, a policeman, and Terri Roberts, he earned a diploma through a homeschooling association.  In 1990, Roberts was employed as a dishwasher at the Good 'n' Plenty restaurant in Smoketown, Pennsylvania; two of his co-workers there were subsequently convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show in 1991.  Although neither he nor his family were Amish, Roberts later earned a living as a truck driver, working nights collecting milk from dairy farms in a heavily Amish area near his home in the tiny village of Georgetown, Pennsylvania.  On the morning of October 2nd, 2006, Roberts dropped-off his children at their school bus-stop, before driving a pickup truck to the West Nickel Mines School, a one-room schoolhouse in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  Instructing the schoolboys to help him carry ammunition and other supplies into the school, he then dismissed them, before barricading himself inside with the female pupils.  After making two phone calls - one to his wife, Marie, and one to the police - Roberts shot dead five of the girls, injuring the other five, and then killed himself.  Although obviously grieved at the loss of their offspring, the Amish's response to the tragedy was remarkably forgiving, refusing to show hatred for Roberts, and even setting up a support fund for his family.  Roberts had left four suicide notes: one for each of his three children, and one for his wife.  One note detailed the despondency he felt over the death of his daughter shortly after birth nine years earlier, and also stating cryptically that he had recently been having dreams of doing again what he had done twenty years ago.  Roberts had phoned his wife whilst barricaded in the schoolhouse, claiming to have molested two young female relatives two decades earlier, although the people concerned later denied that these events had occurred.  K-Y Jelly, a lubricant most often used during sexual intercourse, was found amongst Roberts's belongings in the school, possibly suggesting multiple motives for the murders.  One of Roberts's suicide notes spoke of his anger against God, whilst Roberts's co-workers spoke of a "change" in his temperament in the months leading up to the killings, although he apparently became calm again in the preceding week, with Roberts's neighbours reporting him to be unusually upbeat and jovial during his last days.  Charles Roberts was 32 years old.

Faron Young

Faron Young was an American country music singer, songwriter, and producer, as well as an actor, who was active from the early 1950s until the mid-1980s.  Born on February 25th, 1932, he was the youngest of six children born to Harlan and Doris Young in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A.  Starting to perform whilst still at school, he initially imagined a career as a pop singer, before switching his allegiance to country music after watching Hank Williams on T.V.  After leaving college, Young's first releases were on Gotham Records, although by early 1952 he had signed for Capitol Records, where he was to record for the next ten years. Moving to Nashville, his first hit, Goin' Steady, reached number 2 on the U.S. Country Charts in October, 1952.  The following month, Young was drafted into the U.S. Army.  Whilst stationed at Fort McPherson, he met his future wife, Hilda Macon, whom he married in November, 1954, after being discharged.  The couple had three sons and a daughter together.  From 1954 to 1962, Young recorded mainly honky-tonk records for Capitol, the most famous being Willie Nelson's Hello Walls, which was a crossover hit in 1961, and won a gold disc for selling over a million copies.  In the mid-1950s, he also appeared as an actor in four low-budget films.  After drifting for a while musically, Young had a renaissance in 1971, when his song Four in the Morning gave him his fifth and final number-one hit on the U.S. Country chart, and was also a surprising number-three hit on the U.K. pop charts.  In 1972, he was charged with assault for spanking a girl in the audience whom he claimed had spat at him whilst he was singing on stage.  Young's later life was plagued with depression and alcoholism.  In 1984, he fired a pistol into the roof of his home.  When he refused to seek help for his drinking problems, Young's wife divorced him in 1986 after 32 years of marriage.  On December 9th, 1996, Young shot himself in the head at his home, dying in Nashville, Tennessee, the following day.  A combination of feeling he had been abandoned by the music industry, as well as despondency over his declining health, were cited as reasons for his suicide.  His ashes were spread by his family on land owned by singer Johnny Cash and his wife, whilst the Cashes were away.  Faron Young was 64 years old.

Dale Roberts

Dale Roberts - who was born on October 22nd, 1986, in Horden, County Durham, England - was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for several teams between 2005 and 2010.  The son of George and Isabelle, he attended Easington Comprehensive School, and played for Cleveland Juniors F.C., later joining both Sunderland and Middlesbrough football academies.  As a scholar at Middlesbrough, he was part of their F.A. Youth Cup-winning squad in 2004 as a backup to David Knight.  In 2005, Roberts signed as a professional for Nottingham Forest, but failed to make any first-team appearances for Forest in his four years at the club, although he played many times whilst on loan to Eastwood Town, Alfreton Town, and Rushden and Diamonds, winning Rushden's player of the season award in 2008-'09.  He signed permanently for Rushden on January 2nd, 2009, and played 61 times for the club over the next season and a half.  Roberts's good form won him six caps for the England C team in 2009 and '10.  He was voted C team player of the season in 2009-'10.  His final game for the C team, and last in all senior football, was against Wales on September 14th, 2010.  In 2004, Roberts began a relationship with Lindsey Cowan, who had been at school with him.  However, they briefly split up in May of 2010 when Cowan had an affair with Paul Terry, the older brother of former England captain John Terry.  The press got hold of this story, causing Roberts considerable distress.  In September of 2010, Roberts injured his leg whilst playing for England C.  These incidents led to Roberts becoming depressed, and he began to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, becoming reluctant to go out in case he was recognised after his appearances in the press.  He lost motivation, and started missing training sessions, causing consternation to his manager and agent, Justin Edinburgh and Cyrille Regis, respectively.  On November 19th, 2010, Roberts visited Rushden's club doctor, who prescribed him anti-depressants, which only enhanced his lethargy.  Apparently, he also asked for counselling, but received none.  Roberts was told by his manager that he would be starting his first game for Rushden and Diamonds for some time against his former club Eastwood Town in an F.A. Trophy match on December 14th, 2010.  The previous evening, his girlfriend returned home to find a note scribbled on the whiteboard in their kitchen: "I love Lindsey Elizabeth Cowan very very much. She is the love of my life."  The next morning, he sent Cowan a text message, saying he was scared about the upcoming game.  After Roberts failed to turn up for the match that day, police went round to his house in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, where they discovered his lifeless body.  He had committed suicide by hanging.  Dale Roberts was just 24 years old.

Lil' Chris

Christopher James Hardman - who was born on August 26th, 1990, in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England - was a British singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality.  One of three children born to slaughterman Ian Hardman and his wife Karen, he was the shortest boy in his year at Kirkley High School in Lowestoft at the age of fifteen, and thereby gained the nickname "Lil' Chris".  Hardman came to prominence in 2006, when he appeared in Channel 4's series Rock School, where musician Gene Simmons of the group Kiss attempted to form a rock band from the pupils at Chris's school.  Chris - who could sing, play drums and guitar, and write songs - was eventually chosen as lead singer.  In the final episode of the show, the band - named Hoax UK - opened for Judas Priest at a concert in California.  Chris subsequently signed a contract with RCA Records, with his debut single Checkin' It Out reaching number three in the U.K. charts in September, 2006.  During the next two years, he released two albums, and appeared frequently on T.V. , hosting his own show, Everybody Loves Lil' Chris, on Channel 4 in 2008.  He also performed as a D.J. in various clubs around the U.K., before landing a leading role in Loserville: The Musical at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, with the show transferring to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End in 2012 and early 2013.  After Loserville closed, Hardman briefly worked as a door-to-door salesman for Anglia Home Improvements in Lowestoft.  He released a Christmas single, Christmas Number One (#FeedEmYellowSnow), in 2013, but the song failed to chart.  Chris released his own clothing line, MAML, in 2014, featuring clothes of his own design, but they were only on sale for a few months: online, and in one shop in Lowestoft.  He continued to write new material with music producer Guy Barnes, which he hoped would be released in the Summer of 2014, but by this time he had no management or record deal or distribution in place.  Hardman, by this time, was regularly posting on his Twitter account about his struggles with depression.  On March 23rd, 2015, Chris's flatmate, A. J. Sutton, returned home to their flat in Union Road, Lowestoft, at 11.48 a.m. to find that Chris had hanged himself.  Paramedics were called, but were unable to revive him.  Chris Hardman - "Lil' Chris" - was just 24 years old.

Capucine

Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre - who was born on January 6th, 1928, in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France - was a French fashion model and actress who appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990.  Attending school in Saumur in western France, she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in foreign languages.  In 1945, at the age of 17, she was spotted by a commercial photographer, and began modelling for Givenchy and Christian Dior, adopting the mononym "Capucine" - the French word for the nasturtium flower.  Capucine made her film debut with an uncredited role in Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads in 1948.  In 1949, whilst performing in the film Rendevous in July, she met the actor Pierre Trabaud, marrying him the following year, although they divorced only eight months later; she never married again.  Film producer Charles K. Feldman brought Capucine to Hollywood in 1957 to learn acting and study English; she apparently also had an affair with Feldman.  Capucine was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film Song Without End , and was William Holden's love interest in The Lion in 1962.  On the set of The Lion, she began dating Holden, and split up with Feldman.  After moving to Switzerland in 1962, Capucine played two of her most-famous roles in the comedies The Pink Panther and What's New Pussycat.  The death of Feldman in May of 1968 led to her career losing momentum, although she continued appearing in films and on T.V. until 1990.  Capucine's two-year affair with the married Holden ended due to his increasing alcoholism, although they remained friends until his death after a fall whilst drunk in 1981, and he left her $50,000 in his will.  Director Federico Fellini said about Capucine that, "...she had a face to launch a thousand ships...but she was born too late.", whilst Luchino Visconti, rejecting her for a part in the 1971 film Death in Venice, said, "She has a horrible voice, and too many teeth.  She looks like a horse, a beautiful horse...".  Capucine spent the last 28 years of her life living in an eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland.  According to neighbours, she led a reclusive life with her three cats, rarely leaving home, and spending much time reading.  Apparently suffering from ill-health and depression during her last years, on March 17th, 1990, Capucine jumped to her death from her balcony.  She was 62 years old.

Larry Walters

Lawrence Richard Walters - who later became publicly-known by the nickname "Lawnchair Larry" - was an American truck driver who was born on April 19th, 1949, in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.  After failing to become a pilot in the U.S. Air Force due to poor eyesight, Walters took employment as a driver for a television commercial production company.  He had dreamed of flying in an air balloon since the age of thirteen, and, on July 2nd, 1982, attempted to make his dream reality.  Walters strapped 43 helium-filled weather balloons to his garden chair in the backyard of his home in San Pedro, Los Angeles, before settling himself in, carrying only sandwiches, drink, a camera, a C.B. radio, a parachute, and a pellet gun which he intended to use to shoot out some of the balloons so he could descend gently to the ground after floating for a while over his property.  Unfortunately, the wire holding the chair to the ground broke prematurely, sending Walters shooting upwards, eventually reaching a height of about 16,000 feet (over three miles).  He had planned to fly 300 miles into the Mojave Desert, but instead found himself drifting into the approach path to Long Beach Municipal Airport, where he was spotted and reported by two passing aircraft.  Feeling cold and dizzy at such an altitude, Walters shot some of the balloons, and began descending, eventually becoming entangled in power lines in Long Beach, about ten miles from where he took off, and having been airborne for around an hour.  He was cut free by rescuers, the broken power line blacking out parts of Long Beach for twenty minutes.  Walters received a $4,000 fine for his troubles, which was reduced on appeal to $1,500.  He subsequently became a minor celebrity for a while, quitting his job as a driver, and guesting on mainstream American talkshows, and was briefly in demand as a motivational speaker.  Timex watches paid him $1,000 in 1992 to appear in print advertisements.  However, his girlfriend of fifteen years left him, and Walters could only find sporadic employment as a security guard, as well as doing volunteer work for the United States Forest Service.  He had a love of nature, and spent time hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.  On October 6th, 1993, Larry Walters walked to one of his favourite spots in the Angeles National Forest, and took his own life by shooting himself through the heart.  He was 44 years old.

Imogen Hassall

Imogen Hassall - who was born on August 25th, 1942, in Woking, Surrey, England - was a British actress and model who appeared in thirty-three films in the 1960s and '70s.  Born into an affluent family of artists and businessmen, her godfather is said to have been the composer Ivor Novello.  After attending Elmhurst Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School, at the age of sixteen Hassall moved to New York City to study, before returning to England to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art between 1960 and 1962, following which she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for one season.  Hassall appeared in the comedy The Reluctant Peer at the Duchess Theatre in 1964, before gaining parts in British action T.V. series of the 1960s, including The Saint, The Avengers, and The Persuaders!.  In her first significant film role, in 1967, she played Tara in The Long Duel, and received further public attention when playing a dominant cave-girl in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth in 1970.  Also in 1970, Hassall played major roles in Carry On Loving and the horror film Incense for the Damned, and in 1973 starred alongside David Jason in the comedy film, White Cargo.  In 1972, she gave birth to a baby girl, Melanie, but the child died after only four days; Hassall married the baby's father, the actor Kenneth Ives, in 1974, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1978.  In 1979, she married another actor, Andrew Knox, but the marriage lasted less than a year, and she lost the baby she was expecting; Knox himself committed suicide in 1987.  Hassall's private life was a regular subject of interest in tabloid newspapers.  She was known for playing sexy, scantily-clad characters on film and T.V., and this, along with the skimpy outfits she wore to film premieres, led to Hassall being dubbed "The Countess of Cleavage".  After her failed relationships, the death of her child, her miscarriage, and with her career in decline, Hassall became depressed.  Following previous suicide attempts, Hassall was found dead at her home in Wimbledon, London, England, on the morning of November 16th, 1980.  She had been due to meet her friend - the actress, Suzanna Leigh - that day for a holiday trip to Mombasa, but failed to turn up.  She had apparently taken an overdose of Tuinal sleeping tablets.  Imogen Hassall was just 38 years old.

Bob Grant

Robert St. Clair Grant - who was born on April 14th, 1932, in Hammersmith, London, England - was an English actor, comedian, and writer.  After training as an actor, and doing national service, Grant made his stage debut in 1952 at the Court Royal, Horsham.  In 1954, he married Jean Hyett, although the marriage ended in divorce.  Grant's first London appearance was at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1956, and he spent several years at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, before getting the lead role in the musical Blitz! at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End for two years.  He married for the second time, to Christine Sally Kemp, in 1962, but again the marriage ended in divorce.  In 1964, Grant appeared at the Piccadilly Theatre in Instant Marriage, a musical farce, for which he also wrote the book and lyrics.  He continued to perform in films, on radio, and on stage, before landing the role for which he was most famous: as the lecherous bus conductor Jack Harper in the T.V. sitcom, On The Buses.  The series ran for 74 episodes between 1969 and 1974, with Grant co-writing 12 of the episodes.  Hugely successful, the show spawned three feature films, all of which Grant starred in.  He was in a relationship with his On The Buses co-star, Gaye Brown, but split with her to eventually marry Kim Benwell, his third and final wife.  Such was Grant's fame at this time, that huge crowds gathered outside the registry office where they married.  After On The Buses finished, Grant found himself typecast, and struggled to get other parts.  He acted in pantomimes and musicals, but a self-penned pilot show didn't lead to a T.V. series, and Grant never acted on television again.  In 1980, he acted in several radio plays and a Shakesperian play on stage.  Lack of work and mounting bills led Grant to suffer from depression during the 1980s, and on one occasion he disappeared from his home for five days; he had caught a ferry to Ireland, intending to kill himself, but returned unharmed.  In 1990, a new version of On The Buses was planned, featuring most of the original cast, but this fell through due to lack of funds.  A further long gap in employment led to a suicide attempt in 1995, with Grant being found just in time as he lay unconscious over the steering wheel of his car, which was filled with carbon monoxide fumes.  After recovering, Grant and his wife moved to the small village of Twyning in Gloucestershire, thereafter living a reclusive life.  Grant's last acting role was in Funny Money at Devonshire Park Theatre from July 1998.  As more bills continued to arrive, and work didn't, Grant despaired.  On November 8th, 2003, he went into the garage of his home in Church End, Twyning, and attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of his car.  Shortly afterwards, Grant was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his fume-filled car.  Bob Grant was 71 years old.