Robert Mitchum

George Kennedy often played second billing to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum and, on several occasions, Clint Eastwood. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a sadistic chain gang prisoner in 1968 for Cool Hand Luke

American novelist James Salter, who long laboured with the dubious honour of being "the greatest writer you've never read", has died aged 90.

George Kennedy often played second billing to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum and, on several occasions, Clint Eastwood. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a sadistic chain gang prisoner in 1968 for Cool Hand Luke

American novelist James Salter, who long laboured with the dubious honour of being "the greatest writer you've never read", has died aged 90.