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Alvin Rakoff Dies: Veteran Canadian Filmmaker Was 97, Judi Dench & Stephen Fry Share Tributes
Alvin Rakoff directed Laurence Olivier in 'A Voyage Round My Father.'
Alvin Rakoff, the veteran Canadian filmmaker best known for pics like the 1982 feature A Voyage Round My Father starring Laurence Olivier, has died. Over the years, Rakoff worked with performers such as Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliot, Julian Fellows, Henry Fonda, Edward Fox, Michael Gambon, Ava Gardner, John Gielgud, Elliott Gould, Richard Harris, Michael Horden, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Patrick McGoohan, Roger Moore, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jean Simmons, Rod Steiger, Sam Wanamaker, and Shelley Winters. Rakoff is survived by Sally Hughes, his wife of 30 years and Managing Director of The Mill at Sonning Theatre alongside two children from his first marriage to the late Jacqueline Hill (d. 1993).
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