Jimmy Savile's life in pictures

Savile was one of the faces of the BBC's flagship music programme Top Of The Pops Photograph: BBC

Savile with some of the children who took part in his Jim'll Fix It TV series Photograph: Getty Images

Jim'll Fix it Annual from 1980 Photograph: Stephen Meddle/Rex Features

Savile advises children to 'clunk-click' their seatbelts in a public information film Photograph: Public Domain

Finishing the London Marathon in April 1985 Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty Images

The face of British Rail in the early eighties Photograph: Science & Society Picture Librar/Getty

Savile with Michael Barrymore in an episode of TV show Bob Martin Photograph: ITV /Rex Features

Jimmy Saville with fellow Top of The Pops presenters reunite for the last episode in 2006 Photograph: Mark Allan

Savile with his trademark cigar at his home in Roundhay Park, Leeds, in 2007 Photograph: Gary Calton

Savile with Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull in 1967
Photograph: Dezo Hoffman / Rex Features

Savile collects an honorary degree from the University of Bedfordshire from the vice-chancellor, Professor Les Ebdon Photograph: University of Bedfordshire/PA

Savile at the Tie-Wearer Of The Year awards in 1998 Photograph: Peter Jordan/Press Association

Savile with the Beatles at the Gaumont, Bradford, in 1963 Photograph: Barry Wilkinson/SWpix

The Prince of Wales shares a joke with Savile at a reception at the Army Staff College in Sandhurst Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA

Sir Jimmy Savile
31 October 1926 - 29 October 2011
Photograph: Geoff Wilkinson / Rex Featur