Actor and writer:
Born: May 4, 1923; Died: July 4, 2012.
Eric Sykes, who has died aged 89, was an immensely likable comic actor who found a huge audience for humour that was rooted in slapstick, in a love of silliness and in a more innocent time when comedy was not dominated by smut and cruelty.
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