Felicity Kendal’s associate Michael Rudman has handed away on the age of 84.
The theater director died on Thursday (March 30) two years after being on a ventilator with Covid for fourteen days.
Rudman’s dying was confirmed in an announcement posted to Twitter by the expertise company The Soho Company representing him. It learn: “We’re deeply saddened by the passing of our shopper, the good theater director and author Michael Rudman.
He will likely be significantly missed, however his contribution to the theater trade won’t be forgotten. RIP Michael.’
Rudman was married twice and divorced twice. His first marriage was to Veronica Bennett from 1963 to 1981.
He later married Felicity in 1983 with the couple welcoming a son, Jacob, earlier than divorcing in 1991 and reuniting seven years later.
Rudman met Felicity in 1974 whereas nonetheless married to his first spouse and shared the primary time he met her in his memoir, I Joke Too A lot.
He wrote, ‘I can not say I fell in love together with her that day, however I actually felt one thing completely different about her than I did about her co-stars Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon.
‘I have been directing actors for the reason that early Nineteen Sixties on the Nationwide Theatre, within the West Finish and on Broadway, amongst others.
‘Quickly after that I provided Felicity an element in a play I used to be directing within the West Finish.
“The manufacturing went nicely and after we began courting a while later, we determined to maintain our relationship a secret.
‘This was fairly troublesome: I used to be now directing her in a play on the Nationwide Theatre, we each had youngsters and my daughters, Amanda and Katy, spent each weekend with me. Nonetheless, I’ve sworn the ladies to secrecy.’
In 2021, Good Life star Felicity spoke out about Rudman’s ‘scary’ Covid ordeal.
She mentioned on the time: “I feel I can converse for lots of people concerning the super nervousness and the frustration as an actual hardship.
“That feeling of not figuring out what situation your beloved is in, and figuring out you continue to cannot go to them — it is in contrast to something you have skilled earlier than.” It was simply such a scary time. Michael is in his eighties.’
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