Eleanor Fazan obituary

Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s

Don Murray obituary

Hollywood actor who was Oscar-nominated for his first role, playing opposite Marilyn Monroe, and later became a TV star

Sandra Milo obituary

Italian actor who brought an earthy vitality and rambunctiousness to her role in Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece 8½

Carl Weathers obituary

American actor who starred as Sylvester Stallone’s heavyweight boxing opponent Apollo Creed in the Rocky films

Michael Jayston obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra and BBC TV’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Ian Lavender obituary

Last surviving member of the BBC’s Dad’s Army cast who played the bumbling Private Pike

Chita Rivera obituary

American actor, singer and dancer who found fame as Anita in the stage musical West Side Story

Tom Priestley obituary

Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing

Norman Jewison obituary

Director best known for In the Heat of the Night, who saw film not only as entertainment but as a vehicle to confront racism and other socio-political issues

Norma Barzman obituary

American screenwriter during the golden age of Hollywood who was blacklisted during the ‘red scare’

David Kernan obituary

Musical actor renowned for devising and performing Side By Side By Sondheim who was a regular on That Was the Week That Was

Roy Battersby obituary

Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker

Georgina Hale obituary

Character actor known for a host of TV roles and for her award-winning work in the films of Ken Russell