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Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

Monday 09 June 2014 17:15 BST

Actor Rik Mayall arrives at the UK Film Premiere of the classic novel by Jules Verne 'Around The World In 80 Days' at Vue West End in London, 2004

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

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Rik Mayall 'The Last Hurrah' CD signing, Falmouth Bookseller in Cornwall, 2013

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British actor and comedian Rik Mayall being interviewed in January 1985

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Rik Mayall with his wife

Rik Mayall attends the Olivier Awards at the Dominion Theatre in London, 1989

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Rik Mayall and Dave Allen

Rik Mayall and Dave Allen at the British Comedy Awards party in London, 1993

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Rik Mayall in 'Rik Mayall Presents', 1995

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Rik Mayall in 1999

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

Rik Mayall with his wife

Rik Mayall with his wife Barbara in 2000

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

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Rik Mayall in 2003

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

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Actor Rik Mayall arrives at the UK Film Premiere of the classic novel by Jules Verne 'Around The World In 80 Days' at Vue West End in London, 2004

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

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Rik Mayall at the National TV Awards in Royal Albert Hall in London, 2005

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

Rik Mayall and Marsha Fitzalan

Rik Mayall and Marsha Fitzalan pose as their comic 1980's TV characters Alan and Sarah B'Stard in London, 2006

Rik Mayall: Career in pictures

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Actor Rik Mayall is asked to move on by police as he poses as his comic 1980's TV character Alan B'Stard to launch the four-month UK tour of the stage adaptation of the satirical TV series outside the Houses of Parliment in London, 2006

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Rik Mayall auditioning actors for the parts of Tony and Cherie Blair for his play 'The New Statesman - Alan B'Stard's Extremely Secret Weapon', Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall in London, 2006

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Rik Mayall standing on a Saltire painted cow outside the Scottish Parliament, 2006

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Rik Mayall and Alan Yentob

Rik Mayall jokes with television executive and broadcaster Alan Yentob at the British Comedy Awards in London, 2011

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