Life in pictures: How Warwickshire's very own film star Earl Cameron helped break the 'colour barrier' in the British film industry

Earl always had a lot of time for our reporters and chatted at length with them, as some of these photos show.

We also found photos of him during his pioneering acting career. He has acted in films such as Thunderball alongside Sean Connery, The Interpreter with Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman, and Inception which featured Leonardo DiCaprio.

Click here to read tributes to him.