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Marcel Stellman, lyricist and record company executive who brought Countdown to Britain – obituary Besides creating the UK’s best-loved quiz show, he wrote for Charles Aznavour and Tony Bennett and worked with the Rolling Stones Jean and Marcel Stellman in 2017 Credit: Stephen Pover/Shutterstock Marcel Stellman, who has died aged 96, was a record company producer and executive, and a lyricist who wrote for artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Charles Aznavour and Tony Bennett; but his lasting claim to fame in the UK is his role in importing the quiz show Countdown, which has dominated afternoon television since 1982. ....
Bill Titcombe obituary Olly Day My friend Bill Titcombe, who has died aged 82, was an artist, illustrator and cartoonist who worked on more than 65 franchised cartoon characters, many of them for TV-related magazines such as Look-In and TV Comic during the 1960s and 70s. Among the characters he drew were Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo, and he also created comic-based representations of characters from Dad’s Army and Charlie’s Angels. Bill was born in Romford, Essex, to Stewart Titcombe, an artist, and his wife, Edith (nee Littler). Educated at various schools in London and South Africa, he secured his first job with Amalgamated Press in London, where, at the age of 16 and under an exceptional mentor, Nobby Clarke, he drew a cartoon strip called Our Ernie for the comic Knockout, progressing over the next five years to work on a variety of characters for the same publication, including Sinbad, Space Age Kit and Billy Bunter. ....