Derek Royle

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Derek Stanley Royle (7 September 1928 – 23 January 1990) was a British actor. His face was probably better known than his name to British viewers, but he acted in films and TV from the early 1960s until his death.<ref name=bfi/> He had a supporting role in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour in 1967, as well as a minor one with Cilla Black in the film Work Is a Four-Letter Word a year later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Most of his film appearances were in comedy films such as Tiffany Jones (1973), Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! (1974) and Confessions of a Sex Maniac (1974).<ref name=bfi>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Stage and television roles

He appeared in a children's TV comedy series, Hogg's Back (1975) as Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner (GP); in 2016, this series appeared on Talking Pictures TV.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Royle acted with Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs over two series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hog's Back is a ridge of hills in Surrey.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Royle played the hotel guest who dies in his room in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Kipper and the Corpse".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also was the first actor to portray Monsieur Ernest Leclerc in the sixth series of 'Allo 'Allo! (replacing Jack Haig, who had portrayed Ernest's brother Roger),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and had a supporting role in a remake of Indiscreet (1988) and a new BBC version of a Lord Peter Wimsey story.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As a stage actor he was a mainstay of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces company.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He specialised in absent minded characters and used his acrobatic skills to fall down stairs and immediately get up again as if nothing had happened.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Theatre critic Michael Coveney called him "simply one of the funniest men on the English stage".<ref name=guardian/>

Personal life and death

Derek Stanley Royle was born in Reddish on 7 September 1928, and graduated from RADA in 1950.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name = Telegraph>Template:Cite news</ref> He was married to make-up artist Jane Royle (née Short) and their daughters Amanda and Carol Royle became actresses.<ref name=guardian>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Royle died from cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London on 23 January 1990, aged 61.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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