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
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
Marshall Brickman obituary Screenwriter, musician and director who won an Oscar, with Woody Allen, for the screenplay of Annie Hall
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
Barrie Ellis-Jones obituary Other lives: Executive at the film funding body Eurimages, which supported dozens of feature films
Eileen Diss obituary Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas