The leading entertainment agent and producer Peter Charlesworth, who has died aged 93, was both an aide to, and confidant of, some of the biggest names in British show business since the second world war: Shirley Bassey, Barbara Windsor, Joan Collins, Benny Hill and Frankie Howerd, to name but a few.
Always impeccably groomed and suited, with an innate twinkle about him and a pronounced south London accent that he tried to disguise (but never did), Charlesworth belonged to that lost breed of gentlemen agents who all seemed somehow related to David Niven, full of charm and savoir faire, and steadying rocks for their clients.
