Deaths of note from around the world:

Irwin Russell, 87: A prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included such industry heavyweights as Michael Eisner, Jim Henson and David Wolper. He was a key player in the 1984 takeover and subsequent expansion of The Walt Disney Co. Died Friday in Los Angeles of leukemia.

Gilbert Taylor, 99: An influential cinematographer who worked on a number of films alongside some of the world’s most famous directors. He was the director of photography on several distinctive black-and-white classics, including Richard Lester’s Beatlemania chronicle “A Hard Day’s Night,” and had dozens of credits to his name, working with a range of directors, including Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. Taylor said he was “most happy to be remembered as the man who set the look for ‘Star Wars.’” Died Friday at his home on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England.