Haha, ok, fair cop, I just googled “Ewan MacColl house” and that came up.
Let’s face it, the bloke even used a made-up name because his own wasn’t ‘folky’ enough, so chances are he’s at least as much of hypocrite as we all are, never mind the old school ‘champagne socialists’, and much less all of the hundreds of thousands of Party officials in the
USSR with their upmarket flats + dacha in the country for weekends…
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It is not called Ewan MacColl house either, it is The Working Class Movement Library
I know. I didn’t think he was up himself enough to name his house after himself, I just used it as a search term. 
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Champagne socialism = All should travel First Class through life. I worry about cold water toryism.
He also wrote Dirty Old Town about Salford (in 1949) though once it was appropriated by the Dubliners in the 60s and then the Pogues in the 90s it seems to have become an Irish song!
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95 but strange circumstances. Very sad, he was a great actor
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From an obit elsewhere
Born in 1930, he joined the marines in the late 1940s, and decided to study acting in the late 1950s. Hackman befriended Dustin Hoffman at the Pasadena Playhouse and the two were voted “the least likely to succeed”.
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Damn shame - one of the few actors I could actually recognise nowadays, and in some proper classics.
Him his wife and their dog - sounds like carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Yes and they were found in random places downstairs so unlikely a suicide pact.
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More sadness 
Big fan of his in the 70s
Would have loved to seen him at Ronnie Scott’s. All the footage looks brilliant
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I saw him the once. Shockingly, I reckon it must be 30 years ago!
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I saw him a few times over the years and every time he was amazing.
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Brian James of The Damned. 
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