英国演员里克·玛雅逝世

British comedian and actor Rik Mayall, who found fame in the TV series “The Young Ones,” died on Monday at age 56, his management company said.

    The star, whose portrayal of the anarchist* Rick in BBC’s “The Young Ones” endeared* him to a generation of viewers in the 1980s, became one of Britain’s best-known comic actors.

    He also appeared in “Blackadder,” alongside Rowan Atkinson, as a cynical conservative politician in “The New Statesman” and was reunited with his “Young Ones” co-star Ade Edmondson in “Bottom.”

    Police said officers were called to a house in the upmarket southwest London district of Barnes and “a man, aged in his 50s” was pronounced dead at the scene. The death is not believed to be suspicious, the spokesman added.

    In 1998, Mayall survived a potentially fatal accident on a quad bike*, but he had been working until recently.(SD-Agencies)Rik Mayall