US film and TV giant Tyler Perry has been sued for $260m (£194m) by an actor who has accused the mogul of sexually assaulting him while working on his TV shows. Derek Dixon has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing Perry of using his influence in the entertainment industry to create a “coercive, sexually...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter Alamy Jonathan Joss voiced John Redcorn on TV’s King of the Hill from 1997 to 2009 US actor Jonathan Joss has been shot dead in what his husband says was a homophobic hate crime, although police have said they have found no evidence of that. Joss, 59, was known for voicing...
Bimal Thankachan and Divya Uppal BBC India YouTube team Illustration by Puneet Kumar In the absence of a verified photograph of PK Rosy, the BBC commissioned an illustrator to create this image At a time when women’s participation in the film industry was frowned upon, a young woman dared to dream differently. In 1920s pre-independence...
Veteran Bollywood actor and director Manoj Kumar has died at the age of 87 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. The actor died of “age-related health issues”, Dr Santosh Shetty of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where the actor was admitted, said. His son, Kunal Goswami, told ANI news agency that Kumar had been battling health issues...
Val Kilmer, who has died at the age of 65, was often underrated as an actor. He had extraordinary range: excelling in comedies, westerns, crime dramas, musical biopics and action-adventures films alike. And perhaps his best performance combined his skills as a stage actor with a fine singing voice, to bring to life 1960s-counterculture...
Hollywood actor Val Kilmer, known for his roles in Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died aged 65. Kilmer died of pneumonia on Thursday in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes told US media. She said her father had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but later recovered. He had most recently reprised his role...