Judy Carne obituary

Singer, actor and comedian who made her zany mark in the American hit sketch show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

Oliver Sacks obituary

Neurologist and writer best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings

Co-founder of the TV production company behind the swashbuckling adventure series Sharpe

Actor whose career was dominated by the role of Blakey in On the Buses

Musician whose harmonica-playing graced many pop songs in the 1960s and also film and TV music, notably on Last of the Summer Wine’s theme tune

Elegant stage and screen actor who gave memorable performances in many of the productions of her husband, the director Peter Brook

Veteran stage, film and TV actor who triumphed in two major US stage roles: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music

One of the most celebrated American novelists best known for his historical fiction whose books Ragtime and Billy Bathgate were turned into films

Stalwart character actor who appeared as Mr Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange and as one of the gruesome locals in The Wicker Man

Actor who rose to fame in a series of Italian sex comedies in the 60s and 70s

Versatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame on US TV in Cheers and The West Wing

Other lives: Solicitor and champion of the arts

Other lives: Sound recordist on popular TV shows such as Blue Peter and Morecambe and Wise

Cult author who ‘wrote American sentences better than anyone’

Actor and writer who scripted the hit TV series Tenko, a drama about the lives of women imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp