'A lovely bit of squirrel': Paul Ritter's most memorable roles
Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 09.31 EDT Paul Ritter, who died on Monday at the age of 54, is destined to be remembered as the dad from Friday Night Dinner. And rightly so. If you think of Ritter, or Friday Night Dinner for that matter, one image will almost certainly be seared into your mind: Ritter, walking around with his top off like it was the most normal thing in the world, complaining about the heat, or enquiring after a “lovely bit of squirrel”. That role, and that image, brought Ritter a level of fame he had previously never achieved. Before the sitcom, which began in 2011, he h...