– Brian Hall, actor (born 1937) 19 September – Jack May, actor (born 1922) 28 September – David Gill, film historian (born 1928) 3 October – A. L. Rowse, historian (born 1903) 5 October Andrew Keir, Scottish actor (born 1926) Debbie Linden, glamour model and actress (born 1961); heroin overdose 6 October – Adrienne Hill, actress (born 1937) 13 October – Richard Mason, British novelist (b. 1919) 15 October – Macdonald Critchley, neurologist (born 1900) 19 October Harold French, actor, film director and screenwriter (born 1897) Arthur Ibbetson, cinematographer (born 1922) 5 November – Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher and sociologist (born 1909, Russian Empire) 6 November Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, politician (born 1915) Epic Soundtracks, musician (born 1959) 17 November – Wilfred Josephs, composer (born 1927) 18 November – Joyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory, golfer (born 1901) 21 November – Jack Purvis, actor (born 1937) 2 December – Shirley Crabtree, "Big Daddy", wrestler (born 1930) 4 December – Richard Vernon, actor (born 1925) 7 December – Billy Bremner, footballer and football manager (born 1942) 11 December – Eddie Chapman, World War II spy (born 1914) 13 December – Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician (born 1903) 14 December Owen Barfield, author, poet, philosopher and critic (born 1898) Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth, peer (born 1924) 17 December – Peter Taylor, film editor (born 1922) 27 December – Billy Wright, Northern Irish loyalist leader (born 1960); murdered in prison 28 December – James Lees-Milne, writer and architectural historian (born 1908) See also List of British films of 1997 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom United Kingdom