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Leslie Grantham

Actor

Born - 30 April 1947, Camberwell, London, England
Died - 15 June 2018

Fluffily dark-haired actor who leapt to fame as 'Dirty Den' Watts in the long-running TV soap EastEnders. After serving 10 years for the murder of a taxi driver in 1966, he turned to acting, entering TV in 1982. Occasional film appearances include those in Morons from Outer Space (1985), Waiting for Godot (1991), Shadow Run (1998), The Wedding Tackle (2000), Lava (2001), Charlie (2004), Deadtime (2011), The Factory (2013), Mob Handed (2016), Jack Southeast (2018) and The Krays: Dead Man Walking (2018), his last. Married to (but separated from) Australian actress Jane Laurie, he died from cancer.