New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Gone but never FORGOTTEN

Angela Lansbury

Actress Angela Lansbury was just five days shy of her 97th birthday when she died in her sleep on October 11. The London-born actress was famous for playing mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on the hit TV show Murder, She Wrote, but she also had a successful movie career, getting her first Oscar nomination at the age of 18 for her role as the maid in the 1944 thriller Gaslight.

Robbie Coltrane

There’s no then switched to drama, playing shambling criminal psychologist Fitz in the TV series in the ’90s. The award-winning Brit, however, will most widely be remembered as Hagrid in the movies. He died on October 14, aged 72, of a number of conditions, including multiple organ failure.

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