Independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom has passed away after more than five decades in the acting industry. The star's death, at age 87, has been confirmed by his daughter Sabina, who issued a heartfelt statement about her "loving" father. “My father passed at home on Monday with my brother Simon and I and Victoria Foyt by his side,” Sabrina told Deadline.

Sabrina, who is also a filmmaker, told the Hollywood Reporter: “My dad was the most loving, fun, entertaining and unique father and the biggest cheerleader and champion anyone could be lucky enough to have." Following the heartbreaking news, tributes have been pouring in for the actor, writer and director, with one fan writing on X: "RIP #HenryJaglom. Thanks for giving us your cool improv style movies with real human feeling and depth!"

Another wrote, "Henry Jaglom died this week. I considered him a friend; we were closest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he was still working with Welles on a number of film projects that would all go unrealised by either."

Someone else added, "Henry Jaglom, a great, gentle humanist in film and theatre, died today at 87 years old. There are still many works from the man who mined the personal that I have yet to see, but I made it a point to watch #NewYearsDay on New Year's Day 2014."

During his extensive career, Henry worked on and starred in Venice/Venice, Babyfever, Last Summer in the Hamptons, Going Shopping, Déjà Vu, and Eating. Henry worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names and even trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York before moving to LA.

The star's first movie work was as an editor on Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, which starred The Shining's Jack Nicholson. As the years progressed, the creator drew experience from his own life to make his work feel more personal throughout his career.

In an interview with Slant magazine in 2012, Henry said he adored Hollywood films when he was growing up, but "felt there was a wall between me and them".

He shared: “I wanted to make films where people felt that the line was blurred. People have told me that they somehow feel less lonely by [watching] my films, because my films reveal that we’re all ‘bozos on this bus,’ if you know that expression. And, somehow, to share that fact, that we’re all going through these things, people feel they’re less in trouble."

The London-born star leaves behind his two children, Sabrina and Simon, and two grandchildren, Evelyn Reese and Jeremy Reese.