John Sessions has died at the age of 67
Image Source/ Evening Standard
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The comedian-and-actor passed away on Monday (02.11.20) after having a heart attack and the tragic news was confirmed by his agent Alex Irwin who released a statement that revealing that he “died at his home in South London from a heart condition”.
Sessions was best known for his appearances on various TV comedy shows such as Have I Got News For You, Whose Line is it Anyway? and QI and he was the co-writer and star of cult mockumentary style BBC series Stella Street which depicted a host of American and British celebrities, including Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Mick Jagger, Roger Moore and Michael Caine living on the fictional street of the title in Surbiton, south-west London.
Sessions also voiced several puppets in the original run of satirical series Spitting Image and his more recent TV appearances came in shows such as Friday Night Dinner, Mr. Selfridge and Skins.
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The actor was born in Ayshire, Scotland, in 1953 and studied alongside Sir Kenneth Branagh at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in the late 1970s and as well as his television work he also starred in numerous movies, including Kray Twins drama Legend, Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady and The Bounty.
Since the news of his passing, tributes have been paid to Sessions as a man and as a performer.
His friend Ronni Ancona – who starred in Stella Street with him and co-creators Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson – told The Telegraph:
‘He was that rare commodity, a towering intellect who was able to translate his vast intelligence into highly-accessible, unadulterated comedy’.
Describing his acting, she compared it to “watching a high-wire act without a net – the equivalent of chomping into a dangerous Japanese fish”.
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