Dabney Coleman obituary

Prolific actor who, in 1980s films such as 9 to 5 and Tootsie, came to define the misogynistic archetype of a generation

David Sanborn obituary

American alto saxophonist who played with many of the jazz greats and collaborated with David Bowie and Stevie Wonder

Margaret Williams obituary

Director who brought contemporary dance to mainstream British TV audiences with films such as Outside In and Veterans

Roger Corman obituary

American film director and producer who liked to describe himself as the ‘Orson Welles of the Z movie’

Bernard Hill obituary

Versatile actor whose role as Yosser Hughes in the BBC’s 1982 series Boys from the Blackstuff made him a television star

Alex Hooper obituary

Other lives: Film-maker, curator and archaeologist with an expertise in Palaeolithic cave art

Laurent Cantet obituary

French film director who won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes film festival with his improvisatory education drama The Class

Dickey Betts obituary

Guitarist, singer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band best known for writing their 1973 hit Ramblin’ Man

Eleanor Coppola obituary

Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book

Robin Browne obituary

Other lives: Cinematographer specialising in visual effects and aerial photography whose films included three Bond movies, A Passage to India and Gandhi

OJ Simpson obituary

Former American footballer and actor who was acquitted of the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her companion, Ron Goldman, in the 1995 ‘trial of the century’