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EastEnders star dies as tributes are paid to actor's 'decades-long career' that included Footballers' Wives


EastEnders actor Nicholas Ball, famed for playing gang lord Terry Bates in the BBC soap, has passed away at the age of 78 - with tributes pouring in for the accomplished actor

He made a number of appearances in EastEnders between 2007 and 2009, where his character caused chaos in the Queen Vic, and event attacked the iconic Peggy Mitchell (played by the late Dame Barbara Windsor). He appeared in a number of other TV shows, including Red Dwarf, Jonatan Creek, Hustle, Holby City, and the BBC daytime soap Doctors. And prior to the sad news of his passing, Nicholas had been expected to reprise his role as David Willis in Trafficking 2, and was going to voice the narrator in the upcoming The Loneliest Cow animation.

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