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Director won an Oscar for ‘The English Patient’
Anthony Minghella, the Academy Award-winning director of “The English Patient” whose other acclaimed films include “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Cold Mountain,” died Tuesday in London. He was 54.
Minghella died in a London hospital from complications of surgery for tonsil cancer a week earlier, Leslee Dart, his spokeswoman, told The Times.
He had not been ill before the surgery, she said.
The London-based writer-director’s death came as a shock to friends and colleagues, who remembered him as a gentle, caring and intelligent man and an inspiring leader on a film set.
“The grace, joy and tenderness he brought to his films were symbolic of his life and the many people he touched,” Harvey Weinstein, an executive producer of “The English Patient” and “Cold Mountain,” said in a statement.
Producer-director Sydney Pollack, Minghella’s partner in the production company Mirage Enterprises, described him in a statement as a “realistic ro
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Anthony Minghella was the son of immigrants from Italy, who own an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight, where Anthony was born on January 6, 1954. He and his two siblings, Edana Minghella and Dominic Minghella, grew up there, a popular British holiday prick. After graduating from the University of Hull, Minghella took a position as a university lecturer, but quit academia to focus on the theater and songwriting. He oversaw the music in many of his movies.
Minghella was employed as a scriptwriter on the British TV series Maybury (1981) and Inspector Morse (1987) and, as a script editor on the British TV series Grange Hill (1978), before succeeding as a dramatist in the West End, London's equivalent of huvudgata. In 1984, the London Theatre Critics named him Most Promising Playwright of the Year and, two years later, his teaterpjäs "Made in Bangkok" won the the London Theatre Critics' award for best play.
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Professor Emeritus Errol Durbach, 1941–2024
UBC Theatre and Film is saddened to share the news of the passing of Professor Emeritus Errol Durbach on July 10, 2024.
Professor Durbach was a renowned Ibsen scholar and beloved teacher. He started off teaching in the Department of English Language & Literatures, where theatre was known as “Dramatic Literature,” before moving over to the Department of Theatre and Film where he taught for many years. He was the Head of the Department from 1987–1994. In the latter part of his career, he wrote several theatrical adaptations, breathing new life into novels and updating classic plays to resonate with contemporary audiences. Additionally, he was a passionate advocate for local theatre. His contributions to the UBC and the broader theatre community will be greatly missed. Below, a number of Professor Durbach’s colleagues recall the impact he had on the Department and their lives.
“Errol always encouraged and looked out for young