Clive Donner dies at 84

Film director passes away after battle with Alzheimer's

by Amber Wilkinson

Film director Clive Donner has died at the age of 84.

Donner - who was suffering from Alzheimer's - passed away in London. He was best known for his work in the Sixties, including The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat and Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush.

After a move to LA, he went on to produce a number of television dramas, including The Scarlet Pimpernel.

He worked up until the Nineties, with later works including a TV version of Babes In Toyland starring Drew Barrymore.

Donner had been a widower since his costume designer wife Jocelyn Rickards died five years ago. They had no children.

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