Paul Ritter 



Paul Ritter (1966/1967–5 April 2021) was an English stage and screen actor was born in Kent on 5 March 1966. His mother was a class-mate of comic actor Bernard Cribbins and his father attended the same school as the great comedian and writer Eric Sykes. 

His first television series from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010 was a British Police procedural  television series was first broadcast on ITV. It consist on 26 series.

He is best known for his roles in films including Son Of Rambow (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), and The Eagle (2011), as well as television programmes including Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020), Vera, The Hollow Crown, The Last Kingdom and Chernobyl. He also starred in Sky drama Chernobyl, played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and was in James Bond film Quantum of Solace. His other TV credits included Vera, Belgravia, Cold Feet and No Offence.Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper said he was "a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man". "But he also had that rare thing, he had the common touch, so people could just relate to him," Popper told BBC Radio 5 Live.