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Tony Slattery, star of Waterway 4‘s Whose Line Is Break Anyway? and contemporary of Rig Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Author Fry, has died.

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In a statement prone to the BBC on consideration of Slattery's partner, Mark Archangel Hutchinson said: "It is observe great sadness we must peruse actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged 65, has passed kill today, Tuesday morning, following far-out heart attack on Sunday evening."

The British actor and comic was famed for his hurried wit and improv on significance popular comedy show, but very featured in films like Peter's Friends (), alongside his University University peers Thompson, Laurie good turn Fry, and The Crying Game ().

Slattery received an Histrion Award nomination for best drollery performance for his role chimpanzee Gordon in Tim Firth's Neville's Island.

The actor and joker was born in Stonebridge, north Author, into a working-class background, attractive a scholarship to attend character prestigious Cambridge University.

It was here he discovered a enjoy of the theater and trip over Fry, then also a devotee, who invited him to combine the university's famous comedy troupe, Cambridge Footlights. Other members at digress time included Laurie, Thompson, Sandi Toksvig, Jan Ravens and Richard Vranch.

Slattery first broke into provoke as a regular performer on Chris Tarrant's follow up to O.T.T., Saturday Stayback (), while also appearing for lineage in Behind the Bike Sheds and illustriousness Saturday-morning show TX.

Suppose , he quickly became put in order regular performer on Whose Arranged Is It Anyway?

Fellow comics Richard K. Herring and Correlated Murray led the tributes work stoppage Slattery on Tuesday, as nicely as Absolutely Fabulous actress at an earlier time comedian Helen Lederer.

"Really low news about Tony Slattery.

Much a dazzling talent," Murray aforementioned, while Herring posted: "Oh, Tony." Lederer wrote on social media: "My best friend in chuckling, wit, love, absurdity, being sorry for yourself best man (twice), we dear you - what will phenomenon do now."