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 “Chornobyl,” has died, his agent said Tuesday. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour. Robert Popper, the creator of “Friday Night Dinner,” said Ritter “was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”“Chornobyl” screenwriter Craig Mazin said on Twitter that Ritter was “one of the most gentle, gracious and brilliant people I’ve ever known, much less worked with. Actor Russell Tovey said Ritter was “one of the nicest and best actors you’ll ever meet.“Actor-comedian Rob Delaney tweeted that Ritter had “knocked it out of the PARK in Chornobyl.

Source: thestar April 06, 2021 14:07 UTC