Like most people without easy access to the West End and Broadway, I did not get the full measure of Dame Maggie Smith's genius ... that missed out on World War II. And he will stop at nothing ...

Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses ... Shortly before the start of World War II the family moved to Oxford, where her father worked as a pathologist at Oxford University.

A number of the papers paid tribute to Dame Maggie Smith following her death The i ... Neil Norman calls her "a world class performer whose appeal crossed generations". Elsewhere, the Financial ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...