Michael Madsen obituary

American actor best known for playing heavies, including the ‘psycho’ Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs

Rodney Wilson obituary

Other lives: Producer of TV arts programmes and film officer at the Arts Council determined to reach new, diverse audiences

Gerald Harper obituary

Stylish actor with a self-knowing comic touch who had a successful career on television and the stage

Lalo Schifrin obituary

Composer of the Mission: Impossible theme tune as well as music for a host of Hollywood films including Bullitt and Dirty Harry

Mark Peploe obituary

Screenwriter who won an Oscar for Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and provided the screenplay for Antonioni’s The Passenger

Michael Rabiger obituary

Other lives: Pioneering documentarian and author who wrote ‘the bible’ for documentary film-makers

Pik-Sen Lim obituary

Groundbreaking actor best known for her roles in Mind Your Language, Johnny English Reborn and Vampire Academy

Taina Elg obituary

Finnish actor who won two Golden Globes, starred in Les Girls and later worked in television and musical theatre

Roland Curram obituary

Actor best known for playing the gay companion to Julie Christie’s good-time girl in Darling

Frederick Forsyth obituary

Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal

Billy Williams obituary

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love

Kwesi Owusu obituary

Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature Ama

Loretta Swit obituary

Actor who found global fame as the stern head nurse ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in the television sitcom M*A*S*H

Leslie Dilley obituary

Art director who won Oscars for his work on Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and nominations for Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and The Abyss

Marcel Ophuls obituary

Documentary film-maker best known for The Sorrow and the Pity and Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie