Paul Eddington

Paul Clark Eddington, CBE, was an English actor. He appeared in the television sitcoms The Good Life and Yes MinisterYes Prime Minister. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, known as mycosis fungoides, when he was 28.

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Summary Paul EddingtonPaul Clark Eddington, CBE, was an English actor. He appeared in the television sitcoms The Good Life and Yes MinisterYes Prime Minister. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 New Year Honours. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, known as mycosis fungoides, when he was 28. His last roles included Guy Wheeler, a corrupt property developer in the Minder episode The Wrong Goodbye; as Richard Cuthbertson alongside Good Life co-star Felicity Kendal in the TV dramatisation of The Camomile Lawn; the voice of Badger in The Adventures of Mole and Justice Shallow in Henry IV ; a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV,.

He died midway through the BBC Radio series This Sceptred Isle; he had been asked to read extracts from Sir Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples for the award-winning BBC Radio show.