LONDON (AP) � Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, who appeared in the “Harry Potter� franchise and played a key figure behind nuclear disaster in “Chernobyl,� has died at 54.
Ritter agent said the actor died at home on Monday evening and had been suffering from a brain tumor.
Ritter was a familiar face to British television viewers, famous as eccentric patriarch Martin Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.�
He also played ill-fated nuclear engineer Anatoly Dyatlov in the HBO drama “Chernobyl� and the wizard Eldred Worple in “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince.� Ritter also appeared as a devious political operative in the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace� and had frequent stage roles.
