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Archie Lyndhurst alongside with his father, Nicholas, and mother Lucy Smith
CBBC smartly-known person Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Finest Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, has died on the age of 19 after a transient illness.
He was most efficient known for taking half in Ollie Coulton within the comedy account for So Awkward.
CBBC head of say Cheryl Taylor talked about he was “such a gifted younger actor”, adding: “All of us at BBC Kid’s are devastated.
“He’ll be a good deal left out by us all and our deepest condolences jog out to his family and chums at the present.”
Archie started his performing profession on the Sylvia Young Theatre School on the age of 10.
In 2013 his father Nicholas told the BBC that his son had inherited the “performing gene”.
Archie seemed in So Awkward, a sitcom following the lives of a community of chums in secondary college, from its first series in 2015.
Nicholas seemed alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.
Archie Lyndhurst with father Nicholas Lyndhurst in So Awkward
Channel X North, the honest production company that makes So Awkward, talked about it was “deeply horrified and saddened” by the recordsdata.
“He was an extremely gifted performer and his contribution to So Awkward, on and off show conceal conceal, is per chance no longer forgotten,” it talked about in a assertion.
“Moreover hilarious, he was a generous, form-hearted younger man who we had the dignity to work with on the account for for seven years.
“Our tips are alongside with his family and chums at the present.”
John Challis, who conducted Aubrey “Boycie” Boyce in Finest Fools, talked about Archie’s loss of life was “the saddest recordsdata of all”.
He talked about Archie was “just real initiating out on his chosen profession in performing” and that his “coronary heart aches for Slit and Lucy”.
Steve Clark, author of an first price history of the long-running BBC sitcom, furthermore paid tribute on Twitter.
He talked about he knew “just real how proud” Lyndhurst and his partner have been of Archie, adding: “I will no longer commence to imagine what they’re going by arrangement of.”
Archie’s assorted roles included recurring appearances as a youthful incarnation of comic Jack Whitehall in quite a lot of TV programmes.
These included BBC Three sitcom Wicked Education, wherein he was considered as a youthful model of Whitehall’s Alfie Wickers personality.
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