Actor Dennis Waterman has died. He was 74.
A statement said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved Dennis passed away very peacefully in hospital in Spain."
Waterman was best known for his hard man role in The Sweeney and more recently New Tricks, but he was a versatile actor who was known for his light comedy, most notably in Minder alongside George Cole.
He also starred in the traditional sitcom On The Up. Waterman played Tony Carpenter, a self-made millionaire from a working-class background who finds that money doesn't solve everything when he has to deal with a snobbish wife, a tearaway daughter, and an eccentric domestic staff.
Stay Lucky was a comedy-drama series starring Waterman and Jan Francis (Just Good Friends). It ran for four series between 1989 and 1993, notching up 27 episodes along the way. The series revolves around a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire.
Sketch show Little Britain famously sent him up as a tiny actor who always wanted to "wrote the them tune, sing the them tune." He joined them for a special Comic Relief performance in 2006
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