A South African journalist and lyricist who began his career writing newsreel commentaries, Kretzmer would spend 16 years as a feature writer and theatre critic for the Daily Express. He found fame writing the English libretto for Les Miserables and eventually received a BAFTA nomination for his work when it was adapted for the screen in 2012.
Read Herbert Kretzmer's Guardian obituary
Read Herbert Kretzmer's Times obituary