Melvin with Rita Tushingham, who shines in this film. (Image via British Lion) Murray Melvin, 90, died April 14 in London. The esteemed actor won my heart in the affecting kitchen-sink drama A Taste of Honey (1961) — which is easy to stream today — in which he played Geof, a clearly gay man.
Geof was a totally sympathetic gay man in that film, an almost singular performance in a mainstream film at that time. Here, he chats about his achievement: