'She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful': Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner

The stage and screen director, who filmed Smith in The Lady in the Van, recalls her unblinking wit at work on stage in A German Life Smith dies aged 89 Appreciations by Peter Bradshaw and Mark Lawson A life in pictures Obituary Her 20 best films Mike Newell and Ol Parker remember Smith Share your tributes Maggie Smith seemed in her performances to care nothing about being loved, but she was as widely adored as an actor can be. The two things were connected; everyone who watched her knew that the...