Peter Medak obituary

The publishing industry mourns Deirdre McDermott, who died aged 60 from cancer. As a creative leader at Walker Books for twenty-five years, she collaborated with authors like Helen Oxenbury and discovered Flavia Z Drago. Simultaneously, the film world remembers Peter Medak, a British-Hungarian director who died aged 88. Medak is celebrated for The Ruling Class and The Krays, while his film The Changeling was praised by Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro as a masterpiece.