Bill Cobbs, veteran character actor from films such as The Bodyguard and Night at the Museum, has died at the age of 90.

One of the great production designers is no longer with us.

Ron Cobb, the production designer known for bringing Alien's Nostromo, Conan the Barbarian, and Back to the Future's DeLorean to life, has died at the age of 83.

Today we found out that Ron Cobb, the highly influential concept designer and art director, died in Sydney, Australia. It was his birthday. He was 83. But the legacy he leaves behind is truly staggering – and even if you never knew his name, chances are you were touched by his work. His draftsmanship is intricate but never unidentifiable; you always knew a Ron Cobb design when you saw one, defined by clean lines and a kind of bulky, lived-in aesthetic that made you believe that things like spaceships and giant robots and memory machines were actually real. Cobb was …

It has been 10 good, long years since I exited an opening night showing of Christopher Nolan's dream heist pic Inception. From then until now, I have been haunted by Inception's confounding, debate-worthy final shot. It's a shot which has ignited many a debate, left many of us taking shaky drags on a metaphorical cigarette as we pore over every frame for answers, and left us endlessly rewinding into the long night as we grasp onto every preceding moment hoping for some grand revelation. Inception's ending has many explainers since its release in July 2010, …

The NCIS team has faced some memorable villains over the course of the show, but port-to-port killer Jonas Cobb is one of the most underrated.