Maggie Lunn obituary

Leading casting director who helped to launch actors such as David Oyelowo and Benedict Cumberbatch

Nicholas Mosley obituary

Novelist and biographer who confronted his father’s notoriety in his two-volume study of Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists

Sir Gerald Kaufman obituary

Veteran Labour MP and father of the House of Commons who famously labelled his party’s 1983 manifesto ‘the longest suicide note in history’

David Rose obituary

Producer of Z Cars for BBC Television who later became the driving force behind Channel 4’s Film on Four movie output

Alec McCowen obituary

Actor who played the sleuth in the Hitchcock film Frenzy and took his one-man performance of St Mark’s Gospel to the West End and Broadway

Emmanuelle Riva obituary

Actor celebrated for her intellectual performances who achieved early success in Hiroshima Mon Amour

Phyllia Ormrod obituary

Other lives: Last surviving member of the Cretan resistance unit that supported the capture by SOE of General Heinrich Kreipe

Deddie Davies obituary

Actor who appeared in several popular TV dramas and sitcoms and memorably played Mrs Perks in the 1970 film The Railway Children

Richard Adams obituary

Author of the classic 1970s novel Watership Down, the allegorical tale of a colony of rabbits