Grange Hill star Terry Sue-Patt has died at the age of 50.
The actor - best known for playing Benny Green - was found dead on Friday (May 22) at his home in London. The cause of his death is currently unknown.
Police have confirmed that they are not treating Sue-Patt's death as suspicious at this stage.
They said in a statement: "At 12.42pm on Friday we were alerted to concerns for the welfare of a man in Walthamstow. At 1.44pm officers forced entry to a flat, and found the body of a man, aged in his 50s, inside the flat. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Next of kin have been informed. At this early stage, the death is not believed to be suspicious."
Having been discovered playing football, Sue-Patt launched his acting career with a four-year-long stint on Grange Hill, one of the longest-running drama series in British television.
The actor - best known for playing Benny Green - was found dead on Friday (May 22) at his home in London. The cause of his death is currently unknown.
Police have confirmed that they are not treating Sue-Patt's death as suspicious at this stage.
They said in a statement: "At 12.42pm on Friday we were alerted to concerns for the welfare of a man in Walthamstow. At 1.44pm officers forced entry to a flat, and found the body of a man, aged in his 50s, inside the flat. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Next of kin have been informed. At this early stage, the death is not believed to be suspicious."
Having been discovered playing football, Sue-Patt launched his acting career with a four-year-long stint on Grange Hill, one of the longest-running drama series in British television.
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One afternoon in 1973, Terry Sue-Patt got on a bus with some friends from a community theatre and travelled to a river on the outskirts of London. Here, the 10-year-old would unwittingly star in one of the scariest public information films of all time. "We all thought it was a lovely day out," he remembers. "We were just told to jump up and down near the water, play with sticks, mess about. When I saw the finished film, and saw a man in a black cape standing behind us, I had quite a different reaction."
Forty years after their heyday, British public information films continue to haunt the memories of those who saw them – and those who appeared in them. In 90 short seconds of Lonely Water,...
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