Sir Nicholas Stadlen obituary

High court judge and stellar QC who delivered the longest speech in British legal history – and made a feted documentary in later life

Bill Kenwright obituary

Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FC

Actor who found fame, and an Oscar nomination, as the roguishly endearing Paulie in the 1976 film Rocky

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

Stage and screen actor who played Cleopatra opposite Charlton Heston in the 1972 film Antony and Cleopatra

American actor best known for her roles in the classic films The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God

Feared defender of the Chicago Bears NFL team, who later acted on television and in films

Director who drew on his Liverpool upbringing in evocative films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes

Actor who found fame playing Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s television series The Man from UNCLE

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

Other lives: Expert in the technical aspects of the film industry who worked for the National Film Theatre

Other lives: Film-maker and teacher who worked on documentaries that highlighted racial injustice

American-born stage and screen actor who appeared as the brash pop manager Kitty Schreiber in the ITV show Rock Follies of 77

Actor best known for playing the suave Dr Dick Stuart-Clark in the ITV Doctor comedy series

Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema