Tony Randall

Comic actor who personified the neuroses of suburban America.

Maria Denis

Italian film star charged with collaboration who claimed to have saved Visconti's life.

Writer, performer, wit and humanitarian whose brilliant, 64-year career epitomised an old European culture - and a talent to amuse.

Rare star in Germany's dreary postwar cinema.

Cinematographer who founded a film tradition at the BBC.

Hollywood's queen of tap in the age of great musical movies.

Hollywood powerbroker famed for his Machiavellian ways.

US actor and teacher with a fierce, but thoughtful, presence.

Chinese actor and politician.

A 1940s Hollywood regular.

Black film star who inspired a generation in apartheid South Africa.

Actor who saved cartoon fools and Mafia-hit dancers.

Russian film director famed for his devastating portrayal of war but frustrated by the Soviet system.

The first internationally acclaimed female director, she never escaped the shadow of her role in monumental Nazi propaganda films.