Although most famous for his movies - among them Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Marathon Man - he also worked in the theatre, the opera house, in television and as director of innumerable commercials.
At stake - besides the lives of innumerable Congolese and minority Tutsis in Rwanda and Uganda - is the personal prestige of three heads of state: Mr Mugabe, Sam Njoma of Namibia and Mr Dos Santos, who have publicly thrown their countries into a war against the better judgement of many of their own military leaders.
And yet the memories that are still to be gathered are innumerable.
She is the managing editorial director of the literary Vintage Publishing division of Penguin Random House, which publishes innumerable prize-winning authors, dead and living, from Amis to Woolf, via Nigella and Schama and beyond, and includes the latest Man Booker Prize-winner, Richard Flanagan.
His lifelong passions for nature and architecture led to innumerable trips to the north Norfolk coast, visits to most of the churches and country homes in Norfolk, and a list of the types of trees planted along Norwich streets.
Whether it was punching his own goalkeeper, throwing his shirt at a referee, hitting a team-mate with his boots (presumably not on his feet at the time), or his innumerable sendings-off, not once has there been an expression of regret for the undoubted wrongs he has committed.
'When the poor cannot afford good lawyers, good lawyers must be able to afford the poor.' In 16 years at the bar, I have seen our system subjected to innumerable cuts, disastrous outsourcing, and a vast expansion of the scope and complexity of the law.
As for violence, there have been innumerable appalling assaults – sexual (including rape) and every other kind – on both male and female characters.
She took out her phone and scrolled through her innumerable emails from Farukh.
For innumerable mothers – perhaps most mothers – those haunting images of her carrying her baby out of the ward in her slippers will have taken them back to other wards, other corridors, other loneliness.
The ascent is gradual with long straight runs, though interspersed with innumerable roadworks where the surface is little better than a freshly ploughed field.
