Mortlake Crematorium - Cremations

Cremations

Among those cremated here were:

  • Inday Ba (1972–2005), Swedish actress
  • Richard Beckinsale (1947–1979), actor
  • Tarka Cordell (1966–2008), musician
  • Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian and magician
  • Margaret Dale (1922–2010), dancer
  • Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), political broadcaster and commentator
  • Paul Eddington (1927–1995), actor
  • Dick Emery (1915–1983), comedian and actor
  • Kenny Everett (1944–1995), radio DJ and television entertainer
  • Richard Harris (1930–2002), actor, singer and writer
  • Charles Hawtrey (1914–1988), comedy actor
  • Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author
  • John Hutchinson (1884–1972), botanist
  • Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), author
  • Charles Lightoller (1874–1952), second officer of Titanic
  • Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905-2001)
  • Kirsty MacColl (1959–2000), singer-songwriter
  • Christopher Price (1967–2002), radio and television broadcaster
  • John Profumo (1915–2006), politician, Secretary of State for War
  • Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985), actor, author and director
  • Gordon Reid (1939–2003), actor
  • Prince Alexander Romanov (1929–2002), member of the Russian Imperial Family
  • Leonard Rossiter (1926–1984), actor
  • Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990), biologist and politician
  • Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt (1915–2003), businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher
  • Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Stephen Ward (1912–1963), one of the central figures in the Profumo affair

Seventy-seven Commonwealth servicemen of World War II were cremated here and their names are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the adjoining Hammersmith New Cemetery.

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