Actor known for his roles as clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic charactersThere is a great tradition in the rotundity of actors, and Roger Hammond, who has died aged 76 of cancer, stands proudly in a line stretching from Francis L Sullivan and Willoughby Goddard through to Roy Kinnear, Desmond Barrit and Richard Griffiths, though he was probably more malleably benevolent on stage than any of them.He reeked …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PM on April 18, 2016