Nino Cerruti obituary Fashion designer and menswear pioneeer whose relaxed suits made star appearances in more than 100 Hollywood films
Jean-Jacques Beineix obituary French film director who achieved international fame with the arthouse classics Diva and Betty Blue
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
Peter Bogdanovich obituary Director whose films including The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon lovingly evoked the Hollywood past
Romaine Hart obituary Film company boss who was the driving force behind the creation of the trailblazing Screen on the Green in the 1970s
Betty White obituary Veteran American actor who played Rose in the hit TV comedy show The Golden Girls
Jean-Marc Vallée obituary Award-winning Canadian film-maker who directed Dallas Buyers Club and Big Little Lies
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?
Sally Ann Howes obituary Actor and singer who played Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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