Dustin Diamond as Screech in Saved By The Bell Credit: Getty The bell has rung for Screech one last time. To a generation who grew up during the Nineties, actor Dustin Diamond will forever be Samuel "Screech" Powers from hit US high school sitcom Saved By The Bell, a fixture of Saturday morning TV. That same generation will have been saddened by news that Diamond - whose adult life proved eventful, even by Hollywood child star standards - has died from cancer, aged just 44. Saved By The Bell followed a group of pupils at the fictional Bayside High School in suburban California. As the endearingly awkward sidekick to popular school heartthrob Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), this curly-haired nerd was the show’s scene-stealing comic relief. Screech became an instant fan favourite.