'Chernobyl' and 'Harry Potter' entertainer Paul Ritter kicks the bucket at 54

 

LONDON (AP) — Versatile British entertainer Paul Ritter, whose jobs went from a hapless rural patriarch in sitcom "Friday Night Dinner" to a Soviet specialist who helps cause an atomic calamity in "Chernobyl," has kicked the bucket, his representative said Tuesday. He was 54 and had been experiencing a cerebrum tumor. 

A recognizable face to British audience members and theatergoers, Ritter played Martin Goodman, the unusual dad of a London Jewish family, in the astringent yet warm Channel 4 sitcom "Friday Night Dinner." 

He likewise played doomed atomic specialist Anatoly Dyatlov in the Emmy-winning HBO show "Chernobyl;" the wizard Eldred Worple in "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince;" and a mischievous political employable in the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace." 

The individuals who worked with Ritter in his most well known jobs evaluated him profoundly. Robert Popper, the maker of "Friday Night Dinner," said Ritter "was a dazzling, superb individual. Kind, interesting, overly mindful and the best entertainer I at any point worked with." 

"Chernobyl" screenwriter Craig Mazin said on Twitter that Ritter was "perhaps the most delicate, thoughtful and splendid individuals I've at any point known, considerably less worked with. We lost him today, and dreadfully soon. I wish his family and friends and family harmony and solace as they grieve the death of this excellent man." 

Ritter was a convincing stage entertainer, a continuous and essential cast part in creations at Britain's National Theater, including "Every one of My Sons," "Coram Boy" and "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time." He additionally showed up in "Workmanship" at London's Old Vic and on a West End stage as Prime Minister John Major, performing inverse Helen Mirren's Queen Elizabeth II in the illustrious dramatization "The Audience." 

The entertainer was designated for a Tony Award in 2009 for his presentation in Alan Ayckbourn's joke "The Norman Conquests" on Broadway. 

Entertainer Russell Tovey said Ritter was "one of the most pleasant and best entertainers you'll at any point meet." 

Entertainer humorist Rob Delaney tweeted that Ritter had "took it out of the PARK in Chernobyl. Watching it I deliberately thought, 'Goodness, we have another celebrity.' Between that and how amusing he was in Friday Night Dinner... simply stunning ability." 

Office Markham, Froggatt and Irwin said Ritter passed on Monday night "calmly at home with his significant other Polly and children Frank and Noah close by." 

"Paul was an uncommonly gifted entertainer playing a gigantic assortment of parts in front of an audience and screen with unprecedented ability," the office said. "He was wildly canny, kind and exceptionally interesting. We will miss him extraordinarily.