Tributes pour in for Diane Keaton after Oscar-winning actress dies aged 79<\/a><\/p>\nThe family added: \u201cWe would like to thank the NHS staff at Eastbourne District General Hospital for their incredible care during his final hours, and to everyone at Eastbourne Gardens nursing home for the care and compassion they have given dad over the past two months.\u201d<\/p>\n
They ended their statement saying they request privacy \u201cat this extremely difficult time\u201d.<\/p>\n
During Caunter\u2019s time playing Roy, one of the headline-making EastEnders storylines involved Pat\u2019s affair with her ex, Frank Butcher, played by Mike Reid.<\/p>\n
His on-screen son was car dealer Barry Evans, played by Shaun Williamson, who was pushed off a cliff in a dramatic episode of the British soap.<\/p>\n
In a social media post Williamson said: \u201cRIP Tony Caunter. He was like a second father to me and taught me so much about acting and life. A great actor and a great man. I will miss him so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caunter\u2019s other acting roles included Pennies From Heaven, Tumbledown, and TV series Juliet Bravo.<\/p>\n
He also appeared in the TV drama series Boon, which starred EastEnders\u2019 Michael Elphick.<\/p>\n
A statement from EastEnders, posted to Instagram, said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Tony Caunter.<\/p>\n
\u201cTony will forever be loved and respected by everyone at EastEnders for his warmth, kindness and humour as well as being greatly remembered by all those at home who instantly took Roy to their hearts.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoy will always be remembered for his great love of Pat, despite him famously declaring his distaste in her choice of earrings, which gave us all one of Walford\u2019s greatest love affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cTony will never be forgotten by all those who worked alongside him for many years and everyone at EastEnders sends their love and condolences to Tony\u2019s family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the comments of the Instagram post, Patsy Palmer, who played Bianca Jackson, said: \u201cBeautiful memories of a beautiful man.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo kind and funny in a time when my career was full of creativity and kindness and freedom. Godbless you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dean Gaffney, who played Robbie Jackson, called him a \u201clegend\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Caunter and Pam St Clement in 1998. Picture: Alamy Actor Tony Caunter, who played Roy Evans in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-200493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}