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  • The Oldie

    TELEVISION ROGER LEWIS

    Jun 02, 2021 3 minutes

    I was shocked to learn Paul Ritter had gone to his reward, at the age of 54. I’d assumed he’d be around for decades more.

    Everyone enjoyed him as the father in Friday Night Dinner (‘A lovely bit of squirrel, Jackie’), and personally I appreciated him as the pathologist in Vera and as the sneering physicist in Chernobyl. Ritter was very good impersonating Jimmy Perry in a Dad’s Army biopic, discussing constipation-alleviating techniques with Arthur Lowe.

    He was one

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