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An obituary for Japanese singer and actress Yoshiko Yamaguchi is presented.

An obituary for American actress Juanita Moore is presented.

The article presents an obituary for actress and journalist Chris Chase.

An obituary for American actress Marta Heflin is presented.

The article celebrates the life and work of Helen Hanft, the Broadway stage actress who died in 2013 at the age of 79.

An obituary for actress Sybil Christopher is presented.

An obituary for French dancer and actress Olympe Bradna is presented.

CORRECTION APPENDED Joyce Redman, a distinguished Irish-born actress widely acclaimed for her intelligent stage presence in Shakespearean drama and French comedy, though probably best known to American audiences for her silent improvisation with a lobster, an oyster, a pear and Albert Finney in the exuberantly lascivious eating scene in the 1963 film ''Tom Jones,'' died on Wednesday in Kent, England. She was 96. Her son, the actor Crispin Redman, told the BBC that Ms. Redman died of pneumonia after a brief illness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doris Belack, a veteran stage, television and screen actress best known for her roles as a no-nonsense judge on ''Law & Order'' and as the peeved soap opera producer in ''Tootsie,'' died on Tuesday in New York. She was 85. Her death, which was confirmed by a family friend, Jason Watkins, came four months after the death of her husband, Philip Rose, the influential Broadway producer of ''A Raisin in the Sun'' and ''Purlie Victorious,'' both considered breakthroughs for racial equality in American theater. The couple were married for 65 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jane White, an actress who made her reputation in the 1960s and '70s in Shakespearean and classical Greek drama in New York but who felt hampered by the racial attitudes of casting directors toward light-skinned black performers like herself, died on July 24 at her home in Greenwich Village. She was 88. The cause was cancer, said Joan K. Harris, her friend and executor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]