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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.
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Harry Potter, Chernobyl actor Paul Ritter dies at 54 of a brain tumour He 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.
British actor Paul Ritter in a Feb. 24, 2009 file photo. (Zak Hussein/PA via AP, FIle)
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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 on Tuesday (Apr 6). He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.
Harry Potter star and acclaimed character actor Paul Ritter dies aged 54
7 Apr, 2021 12:30 AM
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Acclaimed British actor Paul Ritter died on Monday night after a private battle with a brain tumour. Photo / Getty Images
Acclaimed British actor Paul Ritter died on Monday night after a private battle with a brain tumour. Photo / Getty Images
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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 today.
The Harry Potter actor, 54, was battling a brain tumour and his passing announced by his talent agency today. Agency Markham, Froggatt & Irwin confirmed that Ritter had died on Monday night peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side .
‘Harry Potter’ star Paul Ritter dies of brain tumour
British actor, Paul Ritter was widely recognised for his part as wizard Eldred Worple in the Harry Potter after battling brain tumour
By ANI| Posted by Rasti Amena | Published: 7th April 2021 10:49 am IST Paul Ritter (Twitter)
Washington: Paul Ritter, who starred in the 2009 film ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’, has passed away after battling brain tumour. He was 54.
As reported by E!News, the British actor, widely recognised for his part as wizard Eldred Worple in the ‘Harry Potter’ film, passed away on Monday, his representative confirmed.
“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” Ritter’s representative said in a statement to NBC.
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The brilliant character actor Paul Ritter, who has died of a brain tumour aged 54, came to the notice of wide audiences only later in his career – as the long-haired wizard and would-be biographer Eldred Worple in the sixth of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009); as the villainous power plant worker Anatoly Dyatlov in the chilling HBO/Sky miniseries Chernobyl (2019); and, from 2011 onwards, as the combustible, inexplicably shirtless Martin Goodman in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner (“lovely bit of squirrel,” moving fork to mouth) with Tamsin Greig.
In all three roles he was never recognisable as whoever he really was. For Ritter was an actor who “disappeared” inside his character. He always seemed to be patiently volcanic and, on the other hand, anonymously scrofulous. When he was on stage – and he appeared often with the RSC and the National Theatre, especially – I tried, and failed,