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Actor talks about dying in Goblet of Fire At 82, Eric Sykes is a comedy legend and national treasure. Eric is one of the last survivors of a golden generation of comedians, and later became one of the nation's best loved performers, particularly in the classic BBC TV sitcom Sykes. Virtually deaf and registered blind, Eric is honoured with a special profile in next Sunday's edition of ITV1's The South Bank Show in the UK, which bills him as the last great British vaudevillian. Later this year he'll be seen in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, playing gardener Frank Bryce. He said, "I learned more on Harry Potter than I think I have in my whole career in films. "There were one or two comments on Harry Potter that I was the best person they'd ever seen die. And I said it wasn't the first time I'd died on stage. "It was so enjoyable. I thought it was all going to be shot in half a day and it went on for a couple of weeks. They kept adding little bits until it's my scene coming down the stairs, and that's the opening of the picture.
"They wanted him to be so well known so that when he dies after the first five minutes, all the audience would go, 'Ahhh'."
from an article in The Manchester Evening News, thanks to Harry Potter Fan Zone)
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