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Joss Ackland

December 2023

  • UK - 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>Acclaimed English actor Joss Ackland at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his recently-published edition of his late wife's diaries entitled My Other Half and Me. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2009 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Letter: Joss Ackland obituary

    Tom Stubbs writes: Both actors – Joss Ackland and Alec Guinness –are at the top of their game

20 November 2023

  • UK - 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>Acclaimed English actor Joss Ackland at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his recently-published edition of his late wife's diaries entitled My Other Half and Me. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2009 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Joss Ackland obituary

    Veteran British actor known for his many and varied film, TV and stage roles in a career that spanned more than 70 years

19 November 2023

  • Peter Bradshaw

    From White Mischief to Bill & Ted, Joss Ackland was an actor of rare poise, range and pathos

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Joss Ackland in 2009

    Joss Ackland: a life in pictures

  • Backbone of British entertainment … Joss Ackland.

    Joss Ackland: a beacon of power on British stage and screen

  • Joss Ackland, left, with Greta Scacchi and Trevor Howard in White Mischief.

    Joss Ackland, star of White Mischief, dies aged 95

April 2015

  • Edward Fox in Fall of an Empire

    Fall of an Empire: The Story of Katherine of Alexandria review – a Roman epic on a British budget

    Michael Redwood’s attempt to revive the might of Rome – with help from Peter O’Toole – lacks drama, spectacle and a heroine who fails to convince

October 2014

  • Ashley McGuire as Falstaff, centre, in Henry IV

    Desperate jester: Joss Ackland and Ashley McGuire on playing Falstaff

    Falstaff has been played as fool, villain, weakling and liar. Ashley McGuire, who is starring in the Donmar’s all-female Henry IV, and Joss Ackland, who has played the role twice, explain their different approaches

November 2012

  • British cult classics: watch on demand
    Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill

  • Still from Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives

    British cult classics: watch on demand
    British cult classics double bill: Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed &amp; Two Noughts - video

June 2010

  • Sky Arts at Hay
    Joss Ackland on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    Actor Joss Ackland appears on Sky Arts' The Book Show to tell Mariella Frostrup how he came to the decision to publish the diary of his late wife, Rosemary

May 2010

  • Deckchairs at the Hay festival

    Haycast 2010: we want your questions

    Our Haycasts were the highlight of our coverage of last year's Guardian Hay festival. This year, we're heading back to Wales to bring you more of the same - but this time we'd like to hear your questions for the authors we're interviewing

August 2009

  • Joss Ackland

    Motor neurone disease: a cruel end to a 50-year love affair

    Actor Joss Ackland tells Susan Greenwood about his wife's death from motor neurone disease, and why he decided to publish her frank diaries about their life together

June 2009

  • Margaret Atwood

    Edinburgh unveils book festival lineup

    Joss Ackland, George Dawes Green and an all-singing Margaret Atwood among highlights of world's laregest literary festival

August 2001

  • Oh God, says Joss, I've acted in loads of dross

    After over five decades on stage and more than three on screen, Joss Ackland should be able to discriminate between the good, the bad and the downright appalling when it comes to acting.
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