#Sean lock cause of death serial#

He is best known to wider audiences for his stints on comedy panel shows including QI, The Last Leg, Have I Got News for You and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, but most notably the Carr-hosted 8 Out of 10 Cats on Channel 4 - Lock starred in it as a team captain from 2005 to 2016. The series achieved a cult-like following and lasted two seasons.

#Sean lock cause of death serial#

Co-starring Doctor Strange star Benedict Wong, 15 Storeys High starred Lock as a serial pessimist living in a high-rise apartment block with his overly optimistic roommate (Wong). In 2002, he created, wrote and starred in the BBC comedy 15 Storeys High, a small-screen adaptation of the radio show 15 Minutes of Misery. He was named best live comic at the British Comedy Awards in 2000 and nominated for a Perrier Comedy Award the same year, one of the most prestigious prizes in the industry. He moved into stand-up comedy by the late 1980s and had his first taste of television working with rising comedians David Baddiel and Rob Newman on the highly influential BBC series Newman and Baddiel in Pieces in 1993. He developed skin cancer in 1990, which he attributed to working outside, and recovered. A lovely man,” Gervais tweeted.īorn in Surrey, England, in 1963, Lock left school early and worked as a laborer. One of the funniest, most influential comedians of a generation. Marc Gilpin, Young Actor on 'Jaws 2,' Dies at 56