Terence Davies obituary

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

David McCallum obituary

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

Other lives: Expert in the technical aspects of the film industry who worked for the National Film Theatre

Other lives: Film-maker and teacher who worked on documentaries that highlighted racial injustice

American-born stage and screen actor who appeared as the brash pop manager Kitty Schreiber in the ITV show Rock Follies of 77

Actor best known for playing the suave Dr Dick Stuart-Clark in the ITV Doctor comedy series

Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

Texas-born actor who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl and Dallas

Other Lives: Programmer and distributor of arthouse films who influenced the alternative cinema scenes in Cape Town and London

Stage and screen actor who appeared in the 1968 film The Devil Rides Out and the ITV prison drama series Within These Walls

Director and actor who played Auntie Muriel Weasley in Harry Potter and served as artistic director of the Unicorn theatre

Actor and playwright best known for his 1980 stage hit Duet for One, which was later turned into a film

The Observer film critic on his hero, who died last week aged 87, a man dedicated to telling stories his way and who had a wicked sense of humour

Driving force of the Band, whose influential first album, Music from Big Pink, sent US rock music in new directions