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Actress who played the first Lois Lane in Superman

5:24 PM   Lois Lane generally ended up tied to railway tracks, trapped in a cave or, as Neill put it "bound, gagged and waiting for the bomb to go off"

A champion of women's health appointed to Whitlam government

Stefania Siedlecky studied medicine.

Stefan Couani 9:00 PM   Stefania Siedlecky identified poor access of Aboriginal women to the health system.

Farquharson, journalist whose love of history led him to Canberra

John Farquharson, journalist and editorial manager at <i>The Canberra Times</i>, and political writer for <i>The ...

John Farquharson covered stories from the defection of Russian spy Vladimir Petrov to sacking of the Whitlam government.

Robin Hardy directed 'the Citizen Kane of horror movies'

Robin Hardy: Director of the 1973 film The Wicker Man, which developed a cult following.

Sinister movie The Wicker Man inspired a cult following

Actor Caroline Aherne played Mrs Merton and in The Royle Family

Caroline Aherne as Denise in The Royle Family.

Caroline Aherne, five time Bafta winner was sick of being famous

Elie Wiesel, Nobel peace prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87

President Jimmy Carter standing by as Elie Wiesel, chairman of the president's Holocaust committee speaks in the White ...

Mary Rourke and Valerie J. Nelson   Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work "Night" is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature, has died, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said. He was 87.

Michael Cimino, acclaimed director of The Deer Hunter, dies at 77

Director Michael Cimino in 2015.

Dave Itzkoff   Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter, and then all but squandered it two years later with Heaven's Gate, died on Saturday. He was 77.

David Johnson: the man who ate Arnott's

David Johnson the former chief executive of Campbells Soup whose lessons for work came from the sheep station where he ...

One reporter called him "The Man Who Ate Arnott's", referring to the acrimonious corporate takeover of the 1990s. David Johnson, the famed chief executive of Campbell Soup Company, led it. His illustrious corporate career started with an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Soprano was a champion of contemporary music

Phyllis Curtin, soprano.

American soprano Phyllis Curtin was a champion of contemporary music.

The man with the magic guitar

Scotty Moore and Elvis Presley rehearse for their appearance on the Milton Berle Show at the NBC Burbank studios on June ...

Scotty Moore, the man who practically invented the vocabulary of the rock guitar for generations to come, has died aged 84.

Futurist author Toffler dies at 87

Futurist Alvin Toffler claimed to have foretold a number of major events of the 20th century.

Alvin Toffler, an author whose visions of accelerating social change guided Chinese leaders, American politicians and business moguls through the best-selling books "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave", died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Battle of Britain pilot showed great courage when odds were great

Squadron Leader Keith Lawrence climbing from a Spitfire in 1940.

Squadron Leader Keith Lawrence, who has died aged 96, was the last surviving New Zealand-born Battle of Britain fighter pilot; he later flew in the fierce air battles of the Battle of Malta.

Piano's zen master and Helfgott's coach had secret pupils

Peter Feuchtwanger disliked piano competitions because they "encourage loud mechanical playing".

A self-taught pianist who went on to be a remarkable teacher.

Bambi cartoonist born on dust-bowl farm

Willis Pyle drew, among others, the title character and Flower the skunk for the 1942 animation Bambi.

Willis Pyle learned his craft by studying drawing at Disney's art school on the studio lot at night.

Final journey for Qantas frequent flyer with keys to 'retro-roo'

Dedicated Qantas flyer, John Martin in 2005

John Martin, a television newsroom editor, clocked up a record of more than 1000 trips with Qantas which, the airline says, "will stand the test of time".

Happy marriage of two cultures showed the value of post-war migration program

Eduardo Caporale, Italian migrant, railway worker, handyman.

Daniel Caporale   Edoardo Caporale went to work on the hydroelectric schemes in Tasmania when he came to Australia.

Commando lied about his age to join fight to free France

Rene Rossey, French commando in World War II.

Rene Rossey was among the French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day.

Theatre designer an alchemist with ordinary objects

The late Desmond Heeley, stage and film designer.

Desmond Heeley's costumes dressed the likes of Laurence Olivier and Margot Fonteyn.

Pioneer venture capitalist helped create Silicon Valley

The late Thomas Perkins, US venture capitalist.

Thomas Perkins nurtured Silicon Valley's venture capital industry, fostering the growth of Google and Amazon.

Film-maker Paul Cox remembered

Film-maker Paul Cox just after his  liver transplant in 2010.

John Clarke   When Paul Cox was moved from hospital into palliative care, we prepared ourselves for tough news.

Ex-soldier turned himself into Leopard Man of Skye

Tom Leppard, world's most tattooed man.

Leppard by name, leopard by nature. The hermit tattooed almost his entire body in spots to look like a big cat.

Engineer was loco for steam train engines

Philip Girdlestone in a Ffestiniog signal room in Wales.

British engineer was inspired by the romance of steam as a child and devoted his life to improving steam engines.

Conservationist long before 'greenies' were heard of

Max Woods, pioneer advocate for soil and energy conservation.

Max Woods was a lifelong environmentalist, a passionate advocate in soil conservation and sustainable use of energy in agriculture.

Gunner awarded Silver Star one of last survivors of WW2 Doolittle Raid

David Thatcher, gunner on the Doolittle Raid on Japan.

David Thatcher was played by actor Robert Walker in a movie based on the Japan raid and crash-landing called Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Hit producer and songwriter’s talent helped to lift Elvis Presley’s career out of the doldrums

Elvis Presley in the studio with with Chips Moman, January 1969.

Chips Moman, a producer and songwriter, helped define the Memphis sound in the 1960s.

One of the first DJ's on subversive radio station Double J in the '70s

2JJ (Double Jay) DJ Mac Cocker in 1975.

Double J showed its colours notoriously playing a song banned by commercial radio, Skyhooks' 'You just like me 'cos I'm good in bed'

Legendary Fleet Street crime reporter known as 'Prince of Darkness'

Fleet Street crime reporter James Nicholson.

James Nicholson was the last of the old-school crime reporters and at the height of his Fleet Street fame became celebrated – on account of his black cape – as the "Prince of Darkness".

Nurse who served king, country and community

Jeannie Ross Fraser on her graduation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Jeannie Ross Fraser was a nurse, philanthropist, historian, author, promoter of wool and committed to the Glen Innes community.

Visionary who implemented changes in the grain and wool industries

Geoff Honey’s leadership helped establish frameworks to assist Australia’s grain industry to transition from the single ...

Agricultural leader who reformed both grain and wool industry