Nino Cerruti obituary

Fashion designer and menswear pioneeer whose relaxed suits made star appearances in more than 100 Hollywood films

Denis O’Dell obituary

Film producer and ‘fixer’ behind Beatles films including A Hard Day’s Night and Magical Mystery Tour

Michael Lang obituary

Concert promoter and music manager who helped to create the great monument to 1960s counterculture – Woodstock

Sidney Poitier obituary

Oscar-winning actor who starred in To Sir, With Love, and broke down racial barriers in Hollywood and beyond

Romaine Hart obituary

Film company boss who was the driving force behind the creation of the trailblazing Screen on the Green in the 1970s

Joan Didion obituary

Detached observer of American society and political life through her collections of journalism, novels and screenwriting

Jack Hedley obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor who appeared in numerous 1970s TV drama series including Colditz and Who Pays the Ferryman?

Almudena Grandes obituary

Radical Spanish novelist, newspaper columnist and cultural commentator determined to tell the truth about the Franco era

Colin Young obituary

Head of theatre arts at UCLA in the 1960s who returned to his native UK to become founding director of its first national film school

Anne Rice obituary

Leading writer of supernatural fiction whose 1976 novel Interview With the Vampire was turned into a hit film