Sebastião Salgado obituary

One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life

George Wendt obituary

Actor who played Norm Peterson in the hugely popular American sitcom Cheers

American film director best known for Glengarry Glen Ross and At Close Range

Character actor nominated for a Bafta for Edge of Darkness who played another CIA spook in two Bond films

One of Hollywood’s most independent and original Oscar-winning writer-directors

Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring material

Cinematographer and visual effects artist who shot the destruction of the Death Star in the first Star Wars film

Crime writer known for his ‘history-mystery’ series about the Victorian detective Sergeant Cribb

Film character actor who also appeared in the 1980 US TV mini-series of Shogun and in Tenko and House of Cards in the UK

Producer and production manager who worked in the Scottish film industry with Bill Forsyth and Peter Mullan

Director whose work ranged from BBC TV’s Play for Today to award-winning drama and Hollywood thrillers

Actor and co-creator of the classic 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs

Other lives: Documentary maker, video consultant for the UN, and course leader in media at Bedford College

Other lives: Actor with the Cherub theatre company who co-wrote and co-directed three films and taught at Rada

Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies