Alan Fountain obituary

Other lives: Independent film-maker who was a commissioning editor for Channel 4 from its inception

Howard Marks obituary

Cannabis dealer who treated smuggling as a mission, wrote a bestselling autobiography and gave sold-out performances

Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the 1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories

Bob Ellis was one of Australia’s greatest curmudgeons – but he should also be celebrated as a screenwriter, playwright, director and, yes, a critic

Founding member of Thunderclap Newman, the band that had a No 1 hit with Something in the Air in 1969

Actor whose biggest role was her first, playing the disabled child Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker

Writer and poet whose work was anchored in the American outdoors, the traditional proving ground of the US male

American comedian whose self-referential style influenced many others

Novelist and screenwriter whose most famous book, A Kestrel for a Knave, was turned into the 1969 film Kes

Voice of Lady Penelope who with her husband Gerry produced classic puppet series of the 60s

Pioneer of progressive rock who played keyboards for the Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Theatrical impresario and film producer behind The Rocky Horror Show, Oh! Calcutta! and Monty Python and the Holy Grail

American author of The Prince of Tides who drew on a troubled childhood as material for his novels

Veteran stage and screen actor best known for playing the ranting, drunken Father Jack in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted

Other lives: Award-winning film sound engineer who worked on Chariots of Fire and Good Morning, Vietnam