ACTOR Peter Childs, who played the hard-nosed detective Ronnie Rycott
in the television series Minder, has died aged 50 from leukemia. He was
forced to stop working in May and was in and out of hospital up to his
death in the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, Surrey.
His agent, Bruna Zanelli, said yesterday: ''The leukemia was diagnosed
about two years ago but he did not let it bother him. It took hold
earlier this year and became acute around May, and he had not been able
to work since then.''
Childs, who was married with two grown-up daughters, appeared in
episodes of Juliet Bravo and Bergerac, as well as the television drama
Ellis Island with the late Richard Burton. On stage, he appeared with
Nicholas Lyndhurst in the West End play The Foreigner, playing a Cockney
bomb-disposal expert.
The agent for Minder star George Cole, Ms Joy Jameson, said: ''George
is obviously very shocked. He regarded Peter not only as a very
excellent actor, but also as a really nice man.''
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