Actor David Daker, best known for playing Harry Crawford in ITV comedy-drama Boon, has died aged 90, his agent has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Daker, who was born in Bilston, died peacefully at his home on 30 April with no cause of death revealed as yet.<\/p>\n
He began in theatre, working at Oldham Rep in 1957 and then the Salisbury Playhouse, the Alexandra theatre in Birmingham, the Everyman in Cheltenham, and the Castle in Farnham before making his London debut at the Mermaid theatre.<\/p>\n
His on screen career included Z Cars, Dick Turpin, Coronation Street and Doctor Who before appearing Boon from 1986 until 1992.<\/p>\n
His television career started by appearing in more than 80 episodes of the BBC drama Z Cars as PC Owen Culshaw.<\/p>\n
After appearing in Chips With Everything, The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd, Holocaust and Dick Turpin he played a character in a 1982 episode of Only Fools And Horses.<\/p>\n
He had two roles in Coronation Street in the late 1960s and later appeared three times between 1981 and 1985.<\/p>\n
On film Daker appeared in Time Bandits and I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle, and also worked at the Royal Court and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in theatre.<\/p>\n
The actor, who initially training as a draughtsman after leaving school, married Stella Newton in 1957, having a son and a daughter, Pippa, who had multiple sclerosis and died in 1997.<\/p>\n
The couple later divorced and Daker is survived by his second wife, Hilary, their daughter, Rebecca, his son, Tim, and a sister, Hazel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor David Daker, best known for playing Harry Crawford in ITV comedy-drama Boon, has died aged 90, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652472","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=652472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}