Steptoe and Son writer dies aged 88
Ray Galton STEPTOE and Son and Hancock’s Half Hour comedy writer Ray Galton has died aged 88.
Galton and partner Alan Simpson created some of the nation’s best-loved sitcoms in a 70-year career.
Steptoe starred Harry H Corbett as frustrated rag and bone man Harold with Wilfrid Brambell his “dirty old man” dad Albert.
They also wrote for Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Peter Sellers and Ken Dodd.
Galton’s family said he died on Friday night after “a long and heartbreaking battle with dementia.”
Star and friend David Walliams called their work “some of the greatest TV comedy ever written”.
The duo met in hospital when both had TB as teenagers. Simpson died of lung disease last year at 87. Jason Van Dyke