Director Clive Donner Dies at 84

Stage and film director Clive Donner died on Tuesday, September 7 in London, following years of suffering from Alzheimer’s, according to published reports. He was 84.

Donner directed the 1974 stage production of Robert Patrick’s Kennedy’s Children, first at the King’s Head in Islington, with the production soon transferring to the Arts Theatre in the West End. It then moved to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre in 1975.

He was primarily known as a film director, with his breakthrough work being an adaptation of Harold Pinter’s play, The Caretaker in 1963. He also directed the adaptation of Murray Schisgal’s play, Luv, in 1967.

Among Donner’s numerous other notable films are Nothing But the Best (1964), What’s New Pussycat? (1965), Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) and Rogue Male (1976).

He was married to costume designer Jocelyn Rickards, who died in 2005. The couple had no children, and Donner has no immediate survivors.