Across more than 50 plays and additional libretti for operas and ballets, Bond explored the rage and brutality that he saw as an essential part of the human condition.
The directors of The Full Monty, In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday, along with David Hare, Richard Eyre, John Madden, Jonathan Pryce, Jay Roach, Justin Theroux, Harriet Walter, Cathy Tyson, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Webber and Marion Bailey
Show business memoirs are usually complimentary about other performers or, at least, they refrain from being negative about them but British actress Doon Mackichan isn t one for false compliments.