Paul Ritter
Paul Ritter was born in Kent, England, United Kingdom on December 20th, 1966 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 54, Paul Ritter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Paul Ritter (born 5 March 1966) is an English stage and film actor.
He is best known for his appearances in Quantum of Solace, Son of Rambow, Harry Potter, and the Half-Blood Prince, as well as television programs such as Vera, Friday Night Dinner, Peredur in Chernobyl, and Anatoly Dyatlov in Chernobyl. Ritter's film appearances include appearances in Nowhere Boy, the 2007 television series Instinct, the comedy thriller Pulling, the role of Pistol in Henry IV, Part II of BBC Two's cycle of William Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown, comedian Eric Sykes, and a lead role in BBC Two's serialised Cold War spy drama The Game.
Ritter was described by the Daily Telegraph as "an actor destined for greatness right away."
His Pistol evoked perfectly the agony of a man who had largely left behind the raucous of Eastcheap and discovered himself in middle age contemplating the melancholy of a medieval autumn. Ritter played Otis Gardiner in Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy's first Royal National Theatre production from 2005 to 2006.
In 2009, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his work with The Norman Conquests.
In 2012, he appeared as the protagonist's father in Mark Haddon's book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the National Theatre, and in 2013 as John Major in Peter Morgan's The Audience premiere.
Early life
Ritter was born in Gravesend, Kent, on December 20, 1966. Ken Adams, a toolmaker, worked at various power stations; his mother Joan (née Mooney) was a school secretary. His family was Roman Catholic, and he had four older sisters. Adams obtained an A Level in Theatre Studies at Gravesend Grammar School. At St John's College, Cambridge, he continued to study Modern Languages.
He then moved to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany, after graduating. On returning to the United Kingdom, he adopted the stage name Ritter, which is of German origins. He adopted this name because another Simon Adams was named with Equity, and he admired a German actor with the surname Ritter.
Ritter trained with actor Stephen Mangan and then appeared in The Norman Conquests, a film released in 2009.
Personal life and death
Ritter married Polly Radcliffe, a research fellow at King's College London, in 1996. He lived in Faversham, Kent. Frank and Noah were his two sons.
Ritter died of a brain tumor in his home on April 5, 2021, surrounded by his family. "I'm trying to find a way to discuss Paul Ritter and he's having trouble." Stephen Mangan, a long-time friend, wrote: "Trying to find a way to talk about him and being ill." Since we were teenagers together, my friend has been a mentor. So much talent and it shone from him even as an adolescent. I was so lucky to know him and was lucky enough to work with him many times over the years. "I'm a natural performer." The fellow actors from Friday Night Dinner also paid tribute. Tamsin Greig wrote in The Guardian that she was "eternally grateful" to have known Ritter. Simon Bird said he always aspired to be like him, but Tom Rosenthal called him a "absolute professional."
On the tenth anniversary of the Friday Night Dinner, a retrospective was shown on television.
Career
Ritter's film work included appearances in Nowhere Boy, the 2007 television series Instinct, the comedy revival Pulling, and Henry IV, Part II and Henry V in BBC Two's cycle of William Shakespeare's history plays. His Pistol evoked the horror of a man who had been left behind the raucous juggling of Eastcheap and found himself in middle age contemplating the melancholy of a medieval autumn." Eric Sykes, a comic actor in Tommy Cooper: Not Like This, Like This, and was a lead actor in BBC One's 2014 serialised Cold War spy drama The Game, a video game in which Ritter appeared as an observer.
Ritter appeared in the original Royal National Theatre performance of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award from 2005 to 2006. In 2009, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his work in The Norman Conquests. In 2012, he appeared as the protagonist's father in Mark Haddon's book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Theatre, and as John Major in Peter Morgan's The Audience premiere.
Dr. Billy Cartwright, a pathologist, appeared in the first three series (2011-13) of the famous British crime drama Vera.
Ritter appeared as Martin Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner from 2011 to 2020. He received a posthumous award at the Best Male Comedy Awards in 2021 for his work in this role.