George A Romero, director of horror classic Night of the Living Dead, has died.
Night of the Living Dead, a micro-budget zombie film combining horror and social satire, which Romero co-wrote with John Russo, was released in 1968 and became a cult classic.
It spawned a series: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead.
Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss, another member of the League, also paid tribute to a film outside the Living Dead series.