Keith Michell obituary

Actor and theatre director best known for his many portrayals of Henry VIII

Saeed Jaffrey obituary

Engaging actor known for his many film and TV roles which included parts in The Man Who Would Be King, My Beautiful Laundrette and Coronation Street

Streatham brothel-keeper whose ‘personal services’ inspired a film and books, and launched her on a celebrity career

Eloquent and incisive chief film critic of the Observer for 35 years

Grande dame of French film whose career spanned more than a half-century

Director, teacher and writer who made his mark in alternative theatre in the 1960s and 70s

Actor who founded a stunt team company that provided much of the action on British television in the 1960s and 70s

Welsh actor who starred in film, TV and stage productions ranging from Please Sir! to Under Milk Wood

Conductor and composer who won an Ivor Novello award for the theme music he wrote for the TV series Upstairs Downstairs

Radical film-maker and artist who was a pioneer of modern feminist cinema

Actor who played the eccentric Log Lady in David Lynch’s offbeat classic Twin Peaks

Other lives: Actor who appeared in stage productions at many theatres and in films and on television

Italian film and stage actor best known for his role in Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni

Bestselling writer known for The World Is Full of Married Men, Hollywood Wives and The Stud, whose books were full of sex, shopping and gutsy women

Actor whose career began at the age of 11 months and who worked with James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and other Hollywood stars