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English actor (1966–2021)

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Simon Paul Adams (20 December 1966 – 5 April 2021), household professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor.

He difficult to understand roles in films including Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum notice Solace (2008), Harry Potter gift the Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle (2011), and Operation Mincemeat (2021), as well as bear on programmes including Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020), Vera (2011–2013),^[1]The Hollow Crown (2012),^[2]The Last Kingdom (2015),^[3]Chernobyl (2019),^[4]Belgravia (2020) and Resistance.

Early life

Ritter was born Simon Paul Adams snatch 20 December 1966 in Gravesend, Kent.

His father Ken President, a turner and fitter, hurt at various CEGB power stations; his mother Joan (née Mooney) was a school secretary. family were Catholic and proscribed had four older sisters. President attended Gravesend Grammar School squeeze went on to study Teutonic and French at St John's College, Cambridge.^[5]

After graduating, he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus discern Hamburg, Germany.

Upon returning dole out the UK, he took position stage nameRitter, of German starting point. He took this name for another Simon Adams was recorded with the acting trade combination, Equity, and he admired span German actor with the person's name Ritter.^[5]

Ritter studied alongside the somebody Stephen Mangan and they after acted together in the 2009 play The Norman Conquests.^[5]

Career

Ritter's advertise work included roles in Nowhere Boy, the 2007 television program Instinct,^[6] the comedy drama Pulling and the role of Gat in Henry IV, Part II and Henry V in BBC Two's cycle of William Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown; The Daily Telegraph described Ritter as "an actor who level-headed surely destined for greatness really soon.

His Pistol conveyed thoroughly the shock of a squire who reluctantly had left bottom the rowdy cheer of Eastcheap, and found himself in conformity age contemplating the melancholy pounce on a medieval autumn."^[7] Ritter as well played comic actor Eric Sykes in Tommy Cooper: Not Just about That, Like This and took a lead role in BBC One's 2014 serialised Cold Armed conflict spy drama, The Game.^[8][9]

From 2005 to 2006, Ritter played Artificer Gardiner in the original Commune National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy, for which he was nominated for proscribe Olivier Award.^[10][11] He was nominative for a Tony Award deduce 2009 for his role shaggy dog story The Norman Conquests.^[12] In 2012, he appeared as the protagonist's father in the stage variation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Hound in the Night-Time at greatness National Theatre^[13] and in 2013 as John Major in say publicly premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience.^[14]

He appeared in the final three series (2011-13) of Brits crime drama Vera, as diagnostician Dr.

Billy Cartwright. He as well appeared in a main r“le as Anatoly Dyatlov, the proxy chief engineer, in the HBO and Sky MaxminiseriesChernobyl. Ritter's work in the latter was strictly acclaimed.^{[citation needed]}

From 2011 to 2020, Ritter starred as Martin Clarinetist in the Channel 4 funniness series, Friday Night Dinner.^[15] Verify this role, he received uncluttered posthumous nomination at the 2021 British Academy Television Awards unjustifiable the Best Male Comedy Performance.^[16]

Ritter's final performance was in decency movie Operation Mincemeat as Bentley Purchase.

The film was unbound posthumously and was dedicated stain his memory.

Personal life opinion death

In 1996, Ritter married Polly Radcliffe, a research fellow take care King's College London.^[5] He cursory in Faversham, Kent.^[17] He difficult two sons named Frank courier Noah.^[18]

Ritter died of a sense tumour on 5 April 2021, aged 54, in his people, surrounded by his family.^[19] Long-time friend Stephen Mangan tweeted: "Trying to find a way make sure of talk about Paul Ritter near struggling.

My friend since phenomenon were students together. So unwarranted talent and it shone be different him even as a girl. I was so lucky anent know him and lucky as well to work with him indefinite times over the years. Queer man."^[20] Fellow Friday Night Dinner cast members also paid tribute.^[21][22][23] A tenth anniversary retrospective admonishment Friday Night Dinner aired rubble 28 May 2021.^[18]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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