Actor Bill Cashmore, who appeared in a number of classic comedy shows, has died. He was 56.

Cashmore appeared in various sketches in the Stewart Lee and Richard Herring BBC series Fist of Fun in 1994 & 1995, most notably as "The Piemaster". 

He also appeared in Brass Eye, The Day Today, Men Behaving Badly and the children's series Knightmare, in which he played Honesty Bartram, Snapper-Jack and Bhal-Shebah.