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Ritter was nominated for a Tony Award in 2009 for his performance in Alan Ayckbourn's farce 'The Norman Conquests' on Broadway.
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 Tuesday. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumor.
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'.
He also played ill-fated nuclear engineer Anatoly Dyatlov in the Emmy-winning HBO drama 'Chernobyl'; the wizard Eldred Worple in 'Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince'; and a devious political operative in the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."