Jane Powell obituary

American singer and dancer who played Milly in the classic 1954 film musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Nino Castelnuovo obituary

Actor best known for playing Guy Foucher in the French musical film classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

American actor best known for playing Omar Little in the TV crime series The Wire

Star of the French Nouvelle Vague who rose to fame in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 masterpiece Breathless

Girls Aloud singer who later wrote a memoir about her rackety life as a pop star and her cancer diagnosis

Classical composer famed for his film scores to Zorba the Greek and Serpico, and for his firebrand politics

American journalist who covered the Vietnam war and was known as the ‘soldier’s reporter’

Actor and activist who starred as an irascible journalist in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff drama series Lou Grant

Martial arts actor with an economical style who starred in The Street Fighter and later in Kill Bill and Immortal Combat

Businessman who made his name as a boxing promoter and then went on to be a film producer and financier

Stage and screen actor whose roles ranged from Broadway to her father Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers

Sparkling actor whose long, eclectic career ranged from Shakespeare to Sherlock

Saxophonist, frontman and founding member of the American funk band Kool & the Gang

Director best known for the 1981 film classic Clash of the Titans

Novelist who brought out the humour in the everyday triumphs and failures of her heroines