News about Michael York

Fritz Wepper died in Munich, Germany, at the age of 82. He died 'peacefully' while in hospice at a hospital after a long illness, according to his wife Susanne Kellermann of German newspaper Bild. In the classic 1972 film Cabaret, the German actor was best known for his appearances with Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Marisa Berenson.

BRIAN VINER: It's been fifty years since the children of my generation fell in love with The Three Musketeers. Parts of Richard Lester's brilliantly 1973 swashbuckler, but not to a greater extent (at least in my own case) by the same year's feature-length Hanna-Barbera cartoon, which was inspired by the animated segment on Saturday morning's Banana Splits show, we were taken to a new and blessed memory. Of those of us who came to know D'Artagnan chiefly as a lantern-jawed pen-and-ink figure (or in Lester's film as a titical Michael York) I should note that a tiny minority has actually read Alexandre Dumas' original 1844 novel.