Bruce Cabot

He died in Woodland Hills, California from lung cancer and throat cancer. Other comic roles include the lead role in sitcom The Peter Principle and occasional guest appearances in Not The Nine O'Clock News. He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa. He had originally been offered the lead role of Del Trotter in the series, but turned it down due to other commitments. Cabot's final film appearance was in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The character appeared in three episodes over an eight-year period. The eleven films in which they appeared together include The Comancheros (1961), The Green Berets (1968), The Undefeated (1969) and Chisum (1970). He is best known to television audiences as DCI Roy 'The Slag' Slater, an associate character in the enormously popular sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

A lifelong friend of Wayne, they first acted together in Angel and the Badman (1947). He is regarded as the one of the cinema's most reliable character actors and has a reputation of being very easy to work with. Cabot continued acting into the early 1970s, with many of his later performances being supporting roles in John Wayne films. 2001 proved to be a breakthrough year for Broadbent, who starred in three of the year's most succesful films: Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), Moulin Rouge (2001), for which he won a BAFTA and Iris (2001), for which won an Oscar for his portrayal of John Bayley. Among his other films are Fury (1936), The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Dodge City (1939), Susan and God (1940), The Quiet American (1965) and Cat Ballou (1966). He proved his ability as a character actor in films including The Crying Game (1992), Enchanted April (1992), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Borrowers (1997) and Little Voice (1998) before taking a leading role in another Mike Leigh film, Topsy-Turvy (1999). His most widely seen performance was in King Kong (1933) opposite Fay Wray. He went on to work with Stephen Frears (for television, and in The Hit (1984)) and Terry Gilliam (in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985)) before establishing himself in Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet (1990).

Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Cabot made his film debut in 1931 and during the course of his career appeared in almost one hundred feature films. He made his film debut in 1978 with a tiny role in Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout, and made his television debut the following year. Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 - May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. He also founded the comedy group, the National Theatre of Brent with Patrick Barlow. He graduated in 1972 and went on to work for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as acting in Ken Campbell's epic Illuminatus (1976). Born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the son of a furniture maker (his twin sister died at birth), he was educated at a Quaker school in Reading and briefly attended art college before transferring to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English television and film actor.