Revered co-creator of Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son bows out at the age of 88 after long illness
Ray Galton, one half of a hugely influential writing team with Alan Simpson that was regularly voted the funniest in sitcom history, has died this weekend at the age of 88. The scriptwriter died peacefully on Friday night after a “long and heartbreaking battle with dementia”, his family said.
Galton worked throughout his 60-year career with Simpson, who died in February last year, aged 87. Most famously, they created Hancock’s Half Hour, the radio and television comedy that established Tony Hancock as the quintessential disappointed British antihero of the postwar years.
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