Ray Brooks, British actor and voice of Mr Benn, dies aged 86 | Television

British actor Ray Brooks, who starred at Easenders, came home Cathy, the drama of Ken Loach, and told the 1970s Children’s TV show Mr. Benn, died at the age of 86.

According to a statement shared by the BBC and his family, Brooks died peacefully with his loved ones in his bed after a short illness on Saturday.

The statement also announced that Brooks has lived in the last few years with dementia.

Brooks’s sons Will and Tom said, “Three real love was a family (there was a daughter who died in 2003), Fulham Football Club and Brighton, where he was born.”

The cartoon Mr. Benn, described by Brooks, follows the character traveling to new places that enter a magical costume shop and based on costumes he wore.

Only 13 episodes have been released, but the cartoon was well known with children for generations because the episodes have been repeated twice a year for more than 21 years.

In 2017, Brooks added Guardian’s Guardian and said, “Mr. Benn – Mr. Benn – Mr. Benn – Rupert The Bear, including the worst thing I have ever done, I was taking a few pints, including Rupert The Bear.

Brooks, ITV’s Coronation Street and Norman Phillips, played a series of different primime television shows, and his wife played the long -standing character Pauline Fowler Joe Magar.

Brooks also took part in the BBC comedy drama Bigs Ana, who followed a gambler Robbie Box while trying to protect his relationship with Jan Duce, trying to make a living by betting.

Brooks won a series of film loans, including a role in Knack… And how to win the 1965 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

A year later, he took part in Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home, a BBC drama taken like a documentary investigating the influence of Britain’s residential famine in the late 1960s. In 2000, a British Film Institute survey of 100 industry figures was ranked as the second best British television program ever built after FawLto Towers.

Press Association contributed to this report.