Gene Hackman obituary

Prolific Hollywood character actor who won Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven

Tony Kinsey obituary

Drummer, bandleader and composer who was a leading figure in the world of postwar British jazz

Beguiling French actor who appeared in films such as Belle de Jour and El Cid, but whose true love was the stage

Stage and screen actor who appeared in eight of the saucy Carry On films of the 1960s and 70s

Other lives: American actor who made his home and a successful career in Britain

Other lives: Waxworks creator whose Walkers Tussauds business ran tourist attractions across the UK

Actor known for his menacing, often violent roles in British gangster films, notably The Long Good Friday and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Other lives: Ethnomusicologist and festival founder who was an active member of the sound-art community in Cork

Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

Costume designer who won Oscars for her work on the film epic Doctor Zhivago and for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V

Director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Trop Belle Pour Toi! who saw his role as ‘attacking society: hard, repeatedly and below the belt’

Director whose big screen credits include Jaws 2, Supergirl and Santa Claus: The Movie allongside a 50-year career in television

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

Director of enjoyably twisted films including Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round

US director whose wildly unconventional films burrowed into the unsavoury depths of his nation’s psyche