Julian Fellowes doesn’t mask the true identity of Donna Murphy’s character in The Gilded Age: Mrs. Astor was, indeed, a real person and the queen bee of New York society.Although other women ...

Gawn Grainger, who has died aged 87, was an in-demand character actor at the National Theatre and on the West End stage, and an acolyte of Laurence Olivier; he ghostwrote Olivier’s On Acting ...