Hello Derek
You won't fidn him on Free BMD,it is a free site being transcribed by volunteers and is not a complete list.
It is more or less done up to around 1920,but for deaths from 1950 onwards you do need to check out the COMPLETE indexes, either on Find My Past or Ancestry or something like that.
I have just done from 1982 backwards to 1962 for you and not found him.
If I have time I'll carry on back to 1950.
Regards
Carol
Edit- I have now gone right back to 1951 and he's not dead

I also checked the ships passenger lists,but they only go up to 1960- nothing found.