ARTHUR MILLER, considered one of America's greatest playwrights, has died. He was 89.

Irish cinema has yet to move beyond being a cottage industry, a leading film producer claimed today.

REGARDED by many as the greatest actor of his generation, Marlon Brando was the original angry young man of cinema.

MARLON BRANDO, the reclusive Oscar-winning actor who was one of the most influential stage and screen performers of his generation, has died aged 80, associates said yesterday.

Marlon Brando has died in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 80 years old.

Director Elia Kazan, the hard-driving immigrant’s son whose triumphs included the original Broadway productions of Death Of A Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Academy Award-winning film On The Waterfront,” has died. He was 94.

Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Oscar as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting Southern police chief in In the Heat of the Night, died today. He was 78.