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BURT KWOUK, WHO played martial arts expert, Cato, in the Pink Panther films has died.
The 85-year-old actor is said to have “passed peacefully” today according to his agent, Jean Diamond.
She did not give the cause of death.
Kwouk is most famous for his role in the Pink Panther films opposite Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clousseau.
In 1964 Blake Edwards cast him in A Shot in the Dark, a comedy set around Sellers’ character Clousseau.
He starred as Cato, Clousseau’s manservant who attacked his employer regularly to keep him alert.
He starred in half a dozen more Pink Panther films throughout his life.
In 2011 he was awarded with an Order of the British Empire in London.
Kwouk was born in Northwest England but raised in Shanghai.
His breakout role came in 1958 in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
He also appeared in two James Bond films, Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice.
Tributes have been posted on social media since the news of his death.
His agent Diamond said his funeral would be a private affair.
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Getting worse at alarming rate :(
@Willy Malone: Expect that to continue Willy, possibly accelerate.
Billions to bail out their banking friends. A paltry few million to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis, official Ireland fails our people again.
Please more affordable homes, not more social housing. The squeezed middle earn too much for a corpo house and not enough for the bank to give a mortgage. I’m sick listening to the left parties constantly moaning about getting more social housing, no one speaking for those who work hard, pay tax and claim nothing and can’t buy a home
@Blah blah: the problem is that the politicians want a fast and easy solution. Big developers aren’t going to deliver. If many small builders were helped to build a few houses in patches of redeveloped land it would have a greater impact.
So they spent a large portion of the low cost housing budget getting infrastructure in for their developer mates to make a killing. Low cost housing and developers don’t mix as it means low profits.
Just build social housing and get on with it. Stop with the neoliberal agenda of always making the rich richer.
This is just all down to bad politics. There’s always been people in society who earn so little they can’t afford to rent or buy a house and in the past, the gov built council houses to accommodate them. Present govs are refusing to do this, then compounding the problem by increasing taxes on people who could afford to rent or buy, pushing them out of the market. Add to this, gov refusing to let developers build high density in city centers. Add to this the gov increasing taxes on developers to the point of not making it profitable for the developer to build. But coveney and his ilk who offer no credible solution will no doubt be out asking for your vote again in the next election.
@Adrian: the government are going into overdrive building council housing at the moment! Beside me they were original due to build 25 houses for council housing in a derelict land, now they are squeezing in 74 units, all council housing, creating a ghetto. No one house going to the private market, those people will just be driven further out the commuter belt
Well if you get 20,000 homes at €400,000 it means 20,000 rental units are not needed by those occupiers. Surely this is a positive thing.
@KerryBlueMike: What average earners say on 35k could afford 400k?
@Joe Keogh: average earners are 45k in Ireland. Why settle for being average though? There’s plenty of work for those that want it.
@alphanautica: 23% of the population are in jobs earning no more than 20,000 a year. What hope do they have of ever owning their own home, or paying the exorbitant rents around the country.
@KerryBlueMike:
Your figures are completely squeyeways. Developers will never do this.
@alphanautica:
You must live in Royal Dublin.
@alphanautica: @alphanautica and what about those that can’t work…the disabled, the old the carers. Should they just look for a cardboard box on the side of the road? Or maybe it would be better in your world if they all just died and stopped being a drain on ‘society’. Your constant whine that they are creator’s of their own situations is disgusting.
Rubbish. There’s no housing crisis. Hundreds of migrants from all over the world come here and they are all found accommodation,no problem.
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