Shirley Barrett appreciation: ‘She never stopped being the life of the party’

Australian film-maker and author Shirley Barrett died this week. Her brother-in-law Imre Salusinszky pays tribute

Vanessa Rosenthal obituary

Other lives: Actor and writer whose plays were broadcast on BBC radio and staged around the world

Character actor whose roles ranged from a mafia boss in Goodfellas to a police sergeant in Law & Order

Character actor especially loved by young audiences for film and TV including Jackanory, The Wombles and The Railway Children

One of China’s ‘four great actresses’ whose career lasted from the pre-communist era to modern blockbusters

Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV career

Screenwriter, director and co-creator of the Monkees who had a 1970 hit with his film Five Easy Pieces

Character actor best known for war movies and Sam Peckinpah westerns as well as directing the cult B-movie A Boy and His Dog

Artist whose popular paintings of wide-eyed children were promoted by her husband as his own work

Composer of the James Bond theme who made a great contribution to British musicals in the 1950s and 60s

Superb actor whose defining role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather found echoes in his colourful personal life

Film director, producer and activist whose work highlighted structural inequalities and racism in British life

Stage and screen actor best known for playing Timothy Farthing, the vicar in Dad’s Army

Leading actor of the French New Wave whose prolific career included roles in A Man and a Woman, Z and Amour

Actor who brought gravitas, daftness and darkness to character roles after being ‘discovered’ in his 60s