Obituary

Roger Corman, the Hollywood producer and director also known as the “King of the Bs” has died aged 98. Corman…

Indie rock icon and record producer Steve Albini has died at the age of 61. Albini died of a heart…

He led the people into battle in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and went down with…

Duane Eddy, the pioneering US guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as ‘Rebel Rouser’ and ‘Peter Gunn’…

Paul Auster, the prolific American author whose works include “The New York Trilogy” has died aged 77 after complications from…

French filmmaker Laurent Cantet, who won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008 for his school-set film Entre Les Murs…

O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and…

Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce was a pioneer of surrealist design, taking the traditional then warping it into something…

Writer Lynne Reid Banks, known for her children’s book «The Indian in the Cupboard» has died at the age of…

The world’s oldest man, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, has died aged 114 — just two months before what would have…