All Obituaries articles
Hardy Krüger, war film veteran and Barry Lyndon star, 1928 to 2022
Playing memorable parts for Stanley Kubrick and Howard Hawks, character actor Hardy Krüger was also a recurring face as a German soldier in war films of the 1960s and 70s.
By David Parkinson
Jean-Jacques Beineix, director of Diva and Betty Blue, 1946 to 2022
By Phil Powrie
Sidney Poitier, a giant who broke ground and changed perceptions, 1927 to 2022
By Leila Latif
In memoriam: the filmmakers we lost in 2021
By Bob Mastrangelo
Lina Wertmüller, director of razor-sharp satires who made Oscar history, 1928 to 2021
By Pasquale Iannone
In memory of Anthony Smith CBE , former director of the BFI and BFI Fellow, 1938 to 2021
In memory of Anthony Smith CBE , former director of the BFI and BFI Fellow, 1938 to 2021Somewhere over the rainbow: Ringan Ledwidge, 1971 to 2021
By Professor Emily Caston
Michael Kenneth Williams, forever Omar in The Wire (1966-2021)
By Leila Latif
Nino Castelnuovo: remembering the Umbrellas of Cherbourg star (1936-2021)
By David Parkinson
Jean-Paul Belmondo: the face of the New Wave, the body of popular cinema (1933-2021)
By Ginette Vincendeau
Ned Beatty brought a spark to his character parts
By Tom Charity
RIP Monte Hellman, patron saint of obsessional cinephiles
By Brad Stevens
RIP Bertrand Tavernier, a stalwart of social-minded cinema
By David Thompson
Norman J. Warren: the gentleman of English exploitation
By Josephine Botting
In memory of Raymond Cauchetier: the man who photographed the French New Wave
By Jonathan Romney
Giuseppe Rotunno was one of the great Italian cinematographers
By Pasquale Iannone
Cicely Tyson put Black female pride on screen
By Alex Ramon
Joan Micklin Silver made her own film ground
By Carrie Rickey
A good bird: remembering Barbara Windsor
By Hannah Mackay
The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2020
By Bob Mastrangelo
Sarah Maldoror was a trailblazer in anti-colonial cinema with an engagingly eclectic oeuvre
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Soumitra Chatterjee was Satyajit Ray’s bona fide Bengali
By Andrew Robinson
Rhonda Fleming, a star in black and white and Technicolor
By Pamela Hutchinson
Diana Rigg obituary: an independent, indefatigable star
By Josephine Botting
Jiří Menzel obituary: the last of the Czech New Wave greats
By Peter Hames
In tribute to Liz Fraser and Fenella Fielding, Carry On veterans
By David Parkinson
Anne V. Coates (1925-2018), veteran editor behind legendary Lawrence of Arabia cut
By David Parkinson