Niels Arestrup obituary

Actor who played unsavoury bullies yet was also capable of bringing fresh shading to time-worn characters

Jim Abrahams obituary

Writer and director who was part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team behind the classic film spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun

Rochelle Stevens obituary

Other lives: Literary agent who showed as much care and dedication for smaller passion projects as she did for commercial big hitters

Eileen Diss obituary

Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas

Vic Flick obituary

Guitarist and composer who played the James Bond theme, and later worked with pop stars such as Paul McCartney and Shirley Bassey

Paul Engelen obituary

Leading makeup artist who worked on several Bond films, a Star Wars episode and Game of Thrones

Tony Todd obituary

Star of the Candyman horror films whose other movies included The Crow, Platoon and The Rock

Nick Wade obituary

Other lives: Animator who worked on many much loved children’s cartoon series

Timothy West obituary

Popular actor known for his many varied roles and appearing with his wife, Prunella Scales, in C4’s Great Canal Journeys

Paul Bailey obituary

Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia Payne

Emma Calder obituary

Animator and illustrator whose film Beware of Trains led to a retrospective of her work in Austria in 2023

Quincy Jones obituary

Musician, producer and arranger who had global hits with Michael Jackson, was the first black composer to find acceptance in Hollywood and won 28 Grammys