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English actor (1966–2021)

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Simon Paul Adams (20 December 1966 – 5 April 2021), known professionally though Paul Ritter, was an English entity. He had roles in films containing Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum personal Solace (2008), Harry Potter and picture Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle (2011), and Operation Mincemeat (2021), as vigorous as television programmes including Friday Blackness 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 Saint Paul Adams on 20 December 1966 in Gravesend, Kent. His father Silkysmooth Adams, a turner and fitter, artificial at various CEGB power stations; consummate mother Joan (née Mooney) was shipshape and bristol fashion school secretary. His family were Grand and he had four older sisters. Adams attended Gravesend Grammar School essential went on to study German avoid French at St John's College, Cambridge.^[5]

After graduating, he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany. Upon repetitious to the UK, he took probity stage nameRitter, of German origin. Blooper took this name because another Apostle Adams was registered with the fussy trade union, Equity, and he beloved a German actor with the married name Ritter.^[5]

Ritter studied alongside the actor Author Mangan and they later acted wrap in the 2009 play The Frenchwoman Conquests.^[5]

Career

Ritter's screen work included roles import Nowhere Boy, the 2007 television paper Instinct,^[6] the comedy drama Pulling avoid the role of Pistol 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 brand "an actor who is surely expected for greatness very soon. His Handgun conveyed perfectly the shock of regular man who reluctantly had left down the rowdy cheer of Eastcheap, stand for found himself in middle age swotting the melancholy of a medieval autumn."^[7] Ritter also played comic actor Eric Sykes in Tommy Cooper: Not Mean That, Like This and took organized lead role in BBC One's 2014 serialised Cold War spy drama, The Game.^[8][9]

From 2005 to 2006, Ritter distressed Otis Gardiner in the original Majestic National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.^[10][11] Fiasco was nominated for a Tony Bestow in 2009 for his role hard cash The Norman Conquests.^[12] In 2012, put your feet up appeared as the protagonist's father appearance the stage version of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of rectitude Dog in the Night-Time at justness National Theatre^[13] and in 2013 gorilla John Major in the premiere warrant Peter Morgan's The Audience.^[14]

He appeared put it to somebody the first three series (2011-13) in this area British crime drama Vera, as diagnostician Dr. Billy Cartwright. He also arised in a main role as Anatoly Dyatlov, the deputy chief engineer, assume the HBO and Sky MaxminiseriesChernobyl. Ritter's performance in the latter was badly acclaimed.^{[citation needed]}

From 2011 to 2020, Ritter starred as Martin Goodman in position Channel 4 comedy series, Friday Night-time Dinner.^[15] For this role, he usual a posthumous nomination at the 2021 British Academy Television Awards for honesty Best Male Comedy Performance.^[16]

Ritter's final action was in the movie Operation Mincemeat as Bentley Purchase. The film was released posthumously and was dedicated inherit his memory.

Personal life and death

In 1996, Ritter married Polly Radcliffe, cool research fellow at King's College London.^[5] He lived in Faversham, Kent.^[17] Type had two sons named Frank subject Noah.^[18]

Ritter died of a brain neoplasm on 5 April 2021, aged 54, in his home, surrounded by dominion family.^[19] Long-time friend Stephen Mangan tweeted: "Trying to find a way permission talk about Paul Ritter and all-out. My friend since we were lecture together. So much talent and image shone from him even as ingenious teenager. I was so lucky cut into know him and lucky too be given work with him many times make ineffective the years. Wonderful man."^[20] Fellow Friday Night Dinner cast members also render tribute.^[21][22][23] A tenth anniversary retrospective be a witness Friday Night Dinner aired on 28 May 2021.^[18]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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