William Franklyn

Obituary: Actor who excelled at the stiff upper lip is remembered for spies and Schweppes.

Heinz Sielmann

Obituary: Wildlife film-maker who pioneered the practice of placing cameras inside birds' nests.

Danièle Huillet

Obituary: Experimental film-maker who challenged cinematic language.

Gillo Pontecorvo obituary

Obituary: Italian director best known for The Battle of Algiers, a classic work on the struggle for liberation from the French.

Ed Benedict

The Hollywood-honed Flintstones creator at the heart of Hanna-Barbera's TV success.

Roy Brewer

Obituary: Hunter of reds on the Hollywood lots.

Frank Beyer

Obituary: Film director whose work was blighted by East German censorship.

Gérard Brach

Obituary: French screenwriter who wrote Polanski's most famous sexual and psychological dramas.

Lois January

Obituary: Hollywood B movie heroine of westerns.

Bruno Kirby

Obituary: Straight man to the stars, he often had the best laugh.

Roger Deakin

Obituary: Writer and film-maker, he connected with the British landscape by swimming across it.

Arthur Franz

Obituary: Actor fleetingly in the spotlight as The Sniper.

Daniel Schmid

Obituary: Swiss director who applied his love of ritual and artifice to film and opera.

Gérard Oury

Obituary: French film actor and director best known for his classic wartime comedy, La Grande Vadrouille.