AS Byatt obituary

Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize

Tony Rohr obituary

Actor known for screen roles in The Long Good Friday and Harry’s Game, and as a stalwart of the Joint Stock Theatre Group

Prolific character actor who starred in the dramas Wings and Piece of Cake and enjoyed a busy TV career

Actor who won fame as Chandler Bing in Friends while battling his own personal demons

Actor best known for his portrayal of a suave, uncompromising private detective in the title role of Shaft

High court judge and stellar QC who delivered the longest speech in British legal history – and made a feted documentary in later life

Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FC

Actor who found fame, and an Oscar nomination, as the roguishly endearing Paulie in the 1976 film Rocky

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

Stage and screen actor who played Cleopatra opposite Charlton Heston in the 1972 film Antony and Cleopatra

American actor best known for her roles in the classic films The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God

Feared defender of the Chicago Bears NFL team, who later acted on television and in films

Director who drew on his Liverpool upbringing in evocative films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes

Actor who found fame playing Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s television series The Man from UNCLE

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema