Eric Sykes - a life in pictures

Eric Sykes 1923-2012 Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Eric Sykes (right) and Frankie Howerd playing the piano at Howerd's home in Kensington, London. They were appearing together in the show Pantomania in 1956 Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Richard Wattis, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes in Sykes And A Salesman (1961) Photograph: BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Photograph: BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Eric Sykes in 1964 Photograph: Bob Webb/Rex Features Eric Sykes, Terry Thomas, Stuart Whitman in Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965) Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox/The Ronald Grant Archive Tony Curtis, Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes in Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features Eric Sykes, Henry Cooper, Diana Dors, Reg Varney and Arthur Lowe pose for The Plank, 1967, directed by Eric Sykes Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Eric Sykes as Brassett and Jimmy Edwards as Mr Spettigue in Charley's Aunt, 1977 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy and Eric Sykes in the film The Others (2001) Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/MIRAMAX Eric Sykes as Frank Bryce in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Photograph: Warner Bros/The Ronald Grant Archive Eric Sykes playing an old man who has his home ransacked in TV drama The Bill Photograph: British Film Institute Eric Sykes after receiving his CBE from the Queen in June 2005 Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA Eric Sykes at his office in Bayswater in London in 2006 Photograph: Ben Smith/Rex Features David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Eric Sykes as Fullerton in Agatha Christie: Poirot, Halloween Party (2010) Photograph: ITV/Rex Features