Paul Ritter, a British actor best known to American audiences for his roles in HBO’s “Chernobyl” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” has died of a brain tumor. He was 54.
Representatives for Ritter, whose other notable credits include starring on U.K. series “Friday Night Dinner” and appearing in the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” confirmed his death to TheWrap Tuesday.
“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” Ritter’s agent said in a statement. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumor. Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”
“We are so saddened to...
Representatives for Ritter, whose other notable credits include starring on U.K. series “Friday Night Dinner” and appearing in the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” confirmed his death to TheWrap Tuesday.
“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” Ritter’s agent said in a statement. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumor. Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”
“We are so saddened to...
- 4/6/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Ritter’s film roles included Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince and Quantum Of Solace.
UK actor Paul Ritter has passed away of a brain tumour aged 54.
Ritter, known for his performances in Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl as Anatoly Dyatlov, sitcom Friday Night Dinner, and films Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince and Quantum Of Solace, died at home with his family on Monday, according to the Guardian.
In a statement to the newspaper his agent said: “It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night”.
“He died peacefully at home with his wife...
UK actor Paul Ritter has passed away of a brain tumour aged 54.
Ritter, known for his performances in Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl as Anatoly Dyatlov, sitcom Friday Night Dinner, and films Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince and Quantum Of Solace, died at home with his family on Monday, according to the Guardian.
In a statement to the newspaper his agent said: “It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night”.
“He died peacefully at home with his wife...
- 4/6/2021
- by Hannah Bowler Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Chernobyl actor Paul Ritter has died.
He was 54.
Deadline is reporting that the actor passed away due to a brain tumor.
The actor appeared in several TV shows and movies, including the aforementioned Chernobyl, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Quantum of Solace.
He is probably most well known to UK audiences for his role on the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner. He played family patriarch Martin Goodman on the series from 2011-20.
Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom, tweeted the following:
“Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”
Ritter filmed a retrospective special for the comedy series to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the special is set to air this year.
Ritter played the role of Anatoly Dyatlov in the award-winning HBO/Sky drama series Chernobyl.
He...
He was 54.
Deadline is reporting that the actor passed away due to a brain tumor.
The actor appeared in several TV shows and movies, including the aforementioned Chernobyl, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Quantum of Solace.
He is probably most well known to UK audiences for his role on the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner. He played family patriarch Martin Goodman on the series from 2011-20.
Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom, tweeted the following:
“Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”
Ritter filmed a retrospective special for the comedy series to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the special is set to air this year.
Ritter played the role of Anatoly Dyatlov in the award-winning HBO/Sky drama series Chernobyl.
He...
- 4/6/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Juliette Harrisson Jun 28, 2019
Audiences are preoccupied by how much of HBO's Chernobyl really happened. Here's how the drama approached accuracy...
In the wake of HBO’s phenomenally successful mini-series Chernobyl, a slew of articles have appeared along the lines of ‘Facts vs Fiction’, ‘Moments the show got wrong’, ‘How much of Chernobyl is true?’ ‘What the mini-series gets right’ ‘Separating fact from fiction’, and so on. How can a series that talks so much about truth and lies take so many liberties with ‘truth’? Why are there so many apparent inaccuracies and what is inaccurate about it?
Well, ‘truth’ is a complicated thing – and it doesn’t always fit in to a five part television series. That’s partly why writer Craig Mazin sat down with Peter Sagal to record The Chernobyl Podcast, a series in which he goes through each episode in detail, explaining what his sources were...
Audiences are preoccupied by how much of HBO's Chernobyl really happened. Here's how the drama approached accuracy...
In the wake of HBO’s phenomenally successful mini-series Chernobyl, a slew of articles have appeared along the lines of ‘Facts vs Fiction’, ‘Moments the show got wrong’, ‘How much of Chernobyl is true?’ ‘What the mini-series gets right’ ‘Separating fact from fiction’, and so on. How can a series that talks so much about truth and lies take so many liberties with ‘truth’? Why are there so many apparent inaccuracies and what is inaccurate about it?
Well, ‘truth’ is a complicated thing – and it doesn’t always fit in to a five part television series. That’s partly why writer Craig Mazin sat down with Peter Sagal to record The Chernobyl Podcast, a series in which he goes through each episode in detail, explaining what his sources were...
- 6/28/2019
- Den of Geek
HBOThe five episode series is a dramatised version of the actual events, and purely from a storytelling point of view, it’s nothing short of a cinematic achievement. Hemanth Kumar C RThere is a theory that the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 accelerated the collapse of the erstwhile Ussr in the late ‘80s, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, himself ratified this theory in one of his interviews in the mid-2000s. Over the past three decades, Chernobyl has remained a political and socio-economic zeitgeist, and the fact that every intricate detail about the nuclear disaster and its aftermath still piques our interest says a lot about its socio-cultural impact. In Craig Mazin’s deftly crafted mini-series for HBO, we are taken back in time when Chernobyl turned into humanity's worst nightmare overnight and the subsequent efforts to save millions of lives from the adverse effects of radiation.
- 6/7/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
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