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Bryan Forbes – in pictures

Bryan Forbes on set
On the set of Seance on a Wet Afternoon, 1964 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes Alastair Sim Brian Worth Inspector Calls
Appearing in JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls, with Alastair Sim and Brian Worth Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes Richard Burton Green Grow the Rushes
Starring alongside Richard Burton in Green Grow the Rushes (1951) Photograph: Keystone Features/Getty Images
Bryan Forbes ladder aircraft
Bryan Forbes on the set of Appointment in London (1952) Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Bryan Forbes as POW
Starring in the 1955 British film The Colditz Story Photograph: British Lion Film Corporation/Allstar
Bryan Forbes wedding
Forbes married his second wife, actress Nanette Newman, in 1955. The couple had two children: journalist Sarah Standing and TV presenter Emma Forbes Photograph: Fred Ramage/Getty Images
Bryan Forbes John Mills feeding baby
Feeding the baby with John Mills in a scene from the British comedy The Baby and the Battleship (1956) Photograph: Ray Hearne/Getty Images
Bryan Forbes Richard Attenborough kitchen
Forbes wrote the screenplay for the 1959 film The League of Gentlemen, which starred himself and Richard Attenborough Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Alan Bates Hayley Mills Whistle Down the Wind
Forbes made his directorial debut with Whistle Down the Wind in 1961, starring Alan Bates and Hayley Mills Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features
L-Shaped Room Leslie Caron
Forbes directed the British film classic, the L-Shaped Room, in 1962, starring French actress Leslie Caron Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Tom Courtenay John Mills Gerald Sim King Rat
Forbes went to Hollywood in 1965 to direct King Rat, starring Tom Courtenay, John Mills and Gerald Sim Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes Michael Caine
On the set of The Wrong Box, 1965, with his leading man, Michael Caine Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Edith Mary Evans Bryan Forbes
Directing Dame Edith Mary Evans in the 1967 film The Whisperers Photograph: David Thorpe/Daily Mail/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes Nanette Newman makeup
Checking his wife Nanette Newman's makeup on the set of Seance on a Wet Afternoon Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes Katharine Hepburn
Having fun with Katharine Hepburn, who he directed in The Mad Woman from Chaillot (1968) Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
Women Stepford Wives
The female cast of Forbes' most famous film, The Stepford Wives, made in 1975 Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features
Bryan Forbes
Forbes was made a CBE in 2004 for services to the arts and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain Photograph: Stefan Tyszko/Getty Images
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