Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the roles Rik Mayall will be best remembered for is his show-stealing Lord Flashheart in the Blackadder television series.

SIR Tony Robinson has led tributes to his Blackadder co-star Patsy Byrne, who has died at the age of 80, just weeks after Rik Mayall. The actor and Time Team presenter joined Blackadder producer John ...

After the news of Rik Mayall's death, one of the most fondly recalled moments has been his cameo as Lord Flashheart in Blackadder. None of his characters left a stronger impression than that epitome ...

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British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56. He played obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones with his friend Adrian Edmondson. The pair later starred in the sitcom ...

Barbara Robbin, the widow of comic Rik Mayall, has said her husband died of an "acute cardiac event" following his morning run. Yesterday, a west London coroner said a post mortem had been ...

He had asked to be buried rather than cremated, joking in typically anarchic fashion that he fancied being “eaten properly” by the worms. And when it came to it, Rik Mayall’s send-off was as full of ...

Rik Mayall lived many lives. He was Rik, of course, and Richard “Richie” Richard. There was Sir Richard Dangerous, Alan B’Stard, Drop Dead Fred and Lord Flashheart. Then there was the actual Rik, ...

LONDON — Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, died at his London home on Monday. He was 56. He was best known for co-writing and performing ...

Rik Mayall, an irrepressible British comedy legend who was an equal master of brutally intense physical comedy and wry class satire, died at the tragically young age of 56 today of unspecified causes.

The actor and Time Team presenter joined Blackadder producer John Lloyd in hailing Byrne, who became well-known for playing Nursie in the second series of the hit 1980s’ comedy. Denville Hall, a care ...