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Chernobyl and Harry Potter actor Paul Ritter dies at 54 – Sydney Morning Herald
The versatile British actor, who was a familiar face to British television viewers and theatregoers, died at the age of 54 after suffering from a brain tumour.
London: Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, whose roles ranged from a hapless suburban patriarch in sitcom Friday Night Dinner to a Soviet engineer who helps cause a nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, has died, his agent said. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.
A familiar face to British television viewers and theatregoers, Ritter played Martin Goodman, the eccentric father of a London Jewish family, in the acerbic but warm Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
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