Philippe Carden obituary

Other lives: Accountant who was passionate about theatre and combined this with a talent for making personal tax less daunting

Charles Shyer obituary

Film director and producer whose hit comedies, co-written with his second wife Nancy Meyers, drew on their relationship

Shyam Benegal obituary

Pioneering director with a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement who used his films to explore difficult issues

Olivia Hussey obituary

Actor who was catapulted to fame as one of the teen stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet in 1968

Jack Bond obituary

Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys

Alfa Anderson obituary

American singer best known as a vocalist with the 1970s disco group Chic whose hits included Le Freak

Marisa Paredes obituary

Spanish star of films by Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto Benigni, and a champion of leftwing causes

Martial Solal obituary

French jazz pianist who loved to improvise and wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s film A Bout de Souffle

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