Comedy leg end dies

[Kahnee]

From PA:

 

Comedy veteran John Junkin has died at the age of 76, it was announced today.

Junkin, who was in the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night and appeared in EastEnders, had been suffering from lung cancer.

The comedian worked with comedy legends such as Morecambe and Wise, Ronnie Barker and Spike Milligan.

In the Seventies, he appeared in the likes of The Goodies, Terry And June, and Till Death Us Do Part.

An actor, comedian and script writer, Junkin was a veteran of radio and TV.

Five years ago he made a TV comeback in EastEnders, playing Ernie, a mysterious stranger who suddenly appeared in the Queen Vic.

Junkin's friend, former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis, said: "John Junkin died at 1.30 this morning at the Florence Nightingale House in Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

"He had been suffering from lung cancer, emphysema and asthma."

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