Torchwood star Murray Melvin has died on the age of 90, with Russell T Davies and John Barrowman main tributes to the "wonderful" actor. 

His demise was introduced on Friday by a buddy, who stated Melvin had "never fully recovered" from a fall in December.

The actor was greatest identified for the 1961 movie A Taste Of Honey, by which he performed a homosexual textile design pupil who befriends a pregnant teenage woman.

He additionally starred within the Doctor Who spin-off sequence Torchwood, which aired from 2006 to 2011.

The present's creator Russell T Davies stated he was a "wonderful villain" within the sequence as he highlighted his lengthy and assorted profession.

He wrote on Instagram: "He lived through a century that saw the understanding of his identity change so profoundly, and he did so with dignity, class and wit.

"His final electronic mail to me ended, 'Take care, we nonetheless can not afford to take probabilities.' Oh he was smart. Night, Murray."

John Barrowman, who played the show's lead, wrote: "Murray Melvin, he at all times introduced a cheeky heat smile to the Torchwood set and had the facility to make us all chuckle."

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Melvin's shut buddy, inventive director Kerry Kyriacos Michael, confirmed the actor died at St Thomas' Hospital in London on Friday.

Posting a photograph on Twitter of Melvin ingesting a cup of tea, he wrote that it was with "great sadness" he was saying the demise of the "actor, director and theatre archivist".

He added: "He was one of my closest friends and will be missed by so many of us who had the privilege to know him."

Born on 10 August 1932, Melvin had movie roles within the 2004 musical movie The Phantom Of The Opera and the comedies A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg within the Nineteen Seventies and Smashing Time in Nineteen Sixties.

He additionally starred in a number of Nineteen Seventies Ken Russell movies together with musical comedy The Boy Friend and historic drama The Devils together with Stanley Kubrick's 1975 interval drama Barry Lyndon.

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