Brian Aldiss obituary

One of Britain’s most accomplished and versatile writers who was best known for his works of science fiction

Joseph Bologna obituary

Actor, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who took the part of the tyrannical comedian King Kaiser in the 1982 film comedy My Favourite Year

French stage and screen actor whose 1963 role in the comedy-thriller Les Tontons Flingueurs made him a star

Versatile guitarist whose attractive tenor voice made Rhinestone Cowboy and Southern Nights into million-sellers

Actor who became a household name as the thinking man’s layabout in the title role of the TV sitcom Shelley

Actor who starred on TV in All Creatures Great and Small and became associated with the role of Winston Churchill

Other lives: Actor who deployed his flair for the sinister in the Tricycle theatre’s plays based on inquiries and trials

Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American life

Queen of the French New Wave who combined sharp intelligence and smouldering sexuality

Other lives: Bafta award-winning film editor of TV dramas and documentaries

US voiceover artist best known for Rocket ‘Rocky’ J Squirrel and Natasha Fatale of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

US journalist, novelist and political activist blacklisted in Hollywood during the 1950s who fled to London, where he became a darling of the left

Actor who played Victoria in Doctor Who in the late 1960s

US stage and screen actor best known for Cutter’s Way, Home Alone and Deceived

Versatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epics and spaghetti westerns