Mayall starred in numerous sitcoms including The Young Ones, Blackadder, The New Statesman and Bottom and the big screen in comedy films Drop Dead Fred and Guest House Paradiso.
Brunskill Management announced their client’s death earlier on today. The comic met wife Barbara, a make-up artist, while working on a show for BBC Scotland.
She quickly became pregnant with their eldest daughter Rosie, now 27, and, after they got married in Barbados, they went on to have Sid, 25 and Bonnie, 20.
