Neil Simon obituary

American playwright and screenwriter best known for The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and The Sunshine Boys

John Line obituary

Other lives: Stage and screen actor who shot to fame in TV’s Emergency Ward 10

Casting director with an eye for new talent who worked on Cracker, The Sweeney and A Touch of Frost

Hollywood star of the 1930s who often played sweet young heroines

Acclaimed ‘sword master’ who devised fights for the National Theatre and films such as The Three Musketeers

Production designer who worked in theatre, film, television and fashion

Artist and co-creator of the Marvel superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange

Cinematographer who helped shape the visions of film-makers including Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch

Other lives: Poet and teacher of literature and film

Absurdist film director who emerged from the Soviet shadows in the era of perestroika

Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery

Influential theatre and film director known as the godfather of the Romanian new wave

Screenwriter who enjoyed success with two hard-hitting television drama series, Out and Fox

Superman star whose performance as the go-getting reporter Lois Lane brought pizzazz to the blockbuster superhero films

Pioneering animator of children’s programmes such as Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley