Val Kilmer obituary

Star of films such as Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever whose acting could combine playfulness and intensity

Richard Chamberlain obituary

Dashing American actor best known for his many roles in hit TV series including Dr Kildare, The Thorn Birds and Shogun

Belgian who won the best actress prize at Cannes for her performance in the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta

Other lives: Cricket historian who wrote Seven Summers, an account of Surrey’s seven consecutive county championship triumphs

Other lives: Son of the actor Rex Harrison who became a successful playwright and author

Other lives: Film-maker who became a probation officer and helped start Centrepoint and Private Eye

Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective

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

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