Johnny Briggs played Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street for 30 years. More recently, John Challis played Monty Staines in the ITV show Benidorm. Boycie was so popular with viewers that he and his long-suffering wife Marlene ended up in their own spin-off show – The Green Green Grass – when Only Fools and Horses ended its long run. Co-star Sir David Jason described John Challis as “a wonderful actor” and “a gentleman in the true sense of the word”. Played unscrupulous second-hand car dealer Terrance Aubrey Boyce – better known as Boycie – in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Only Fools and Horses actor John Challis (l) with Roger Lloyd Pack, Sir David Jason and Kenneth MacDonald His other TV credits included Vera, Belgravia, Cold Feet and No Offence. A familiar face elsewhere on stage and screen, Paul Ritter also starred in Sky drama Chernobyl and played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The show’s creator, Robert Popper, described him as “a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man” who also had “the common touch”. Played dad Martin Goodman in the popular Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner. He played many of the great Shakespearean roles, from King Lear to Shylock – but it was his portrayal of Richard III as a villainous hunchback on crutches which won him an Olivier Award in 1985. Raised in South Africa, he had elocution classes in his early teens, which helped him overcome the shyness he had felt as a boy.
Widely regarded as one of the country’s finest contemporary classical actors, Sir Antony Sher had a long association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. “I don’t know how anyone even starts summing up that career – Till Death Us Do Part, Fawlty Towers, the incomparable Aunt Sally in Worzel Gummidge… and, of course, the irreplaceable heart and soul of Sherlock.” “Just about the kindest, nicest, funniest person you could meet,” wrote the show’s creator, Steven Moffat, in tribute. Her last major role was in the BBC drama Sherlock as landlady Mrs Hudson. She went on to star in some of the best-loved shows on British TV. Till Death Us Do Part, Worzel Gummidge and Sherlock actressĪ much-loved team captain on ITVs long-running game show Give Us A Clue – opposite Lionel Blair, who also died earlier this year – Una Stubbs found fame in Cliff Richard’s 1963 film Summer Holiday. Her husband, the actor Damian Lewis, paid tribute to her “fearlessness, wit, curiosity, talent and beauty”. She played Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders and Narcissa Malfoy in three Harry Potter films. Known for her long and acclaimed career on stage, film and television, Helen McCrory was described by the National Theatre’s artistic director Rufus Norris as “unquestionably one of the great actors of her generation”.
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