Jonathan Lipnicki has had a lot of costars in his long career, but four in particular stick out.
Comedian and actor Tony Slattery, who has died aged 65, showed youthful promise in the Cambridge Footlights troupe - alongside a host of future household names.
The London-born star was best known for appearances on comedy shows Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Just A Minute and Have I Got News For You ...
The Whose Line Is It anyway star has been called the "gentlest, sweetest soul" despite his battle with drugs and alcohol.
Other members of the group included Hugh Laurie and Dame Emma Thompson ... including a hosting stint TX, a children's television show. Acting never left the star's blood and he would go on ...
Born November 9, 1959, Slattery was the contemporary of Dame Emma Thompson, Sir Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie at the University ... and is the fifth and last child of Irish immigrants.
The comedy-drama The Full Monty (1997), starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Hugo Speer was filmed on location in Sheffield ...
and contemporary of Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry ... to O.T.T., Saturday Stayback (1983), while also appearing for children in Behind the Bike Sheds and the Saturday-morning show ...
Jennifer Saunders, Hugh Laurie, Emma Freud ... and on television he presented the children’s programme TX and had bit parts in The Lenny Henry Show, Boon and The Bill. Although normally a ...