Dyson Lovell

{{Short description|British film producer and actor (1936–2024)}}

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Dyson Lovell (28 August 1936 – 11 January 2024) was a British film producer and actor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/dyson-lovell-p122136|title=Dyson Lovell | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}} He produced amongst others, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson (1990), and Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box-office flop The Cotton Club, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baceee2a0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327211109/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baceee2a0|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 March 2019|title=Dyson Lovell|website=BFI}} He has received four Emmy Award, and three Golden Globe nominations for his work as a producer in television.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/dyson-lovell|title=Dyson Lovell|website=Television Academy}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/dyson-lovell|title=Dyson Lovell|website=www.goldenglobes.com}}

Lovell originally trained as an actor at RADA, and his early stage work included appearances at The Old Vic and small roles on Broadway.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/dyson-lovell/|title=Dyson Lovell — RADA|website=www.rada.ac.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/x4f/dyson-lovell|title=Dyson Lovell | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dyson-lovell-92015|title=Dyson Lovell – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}} He has played supporting roles in such films as Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, in which he played Sampson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/romeo-and-juliet-v42021/cast-crew|title=Romeo and Juliet (1968) - Franco Zeffirelli | Cast and Crew|website=AllMovie}}

Lovell died from cancer on 11 January 2024, at the age of 87.{{cite news |title=Dyson Lovell obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/dyson-lovell-obituary-whqr8tgpv |access-date=22 February 2024 |work=The Times |date=22 February 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://jamesbond007.se/eng/memoriam/dyson_lovell_1936_2024 | title=In Memoriam actor, producer and casting director Dyson Lovell (1936–2024) }}