Dudley Sutton obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor who found fame as Tinker Dill in the BBC series LovejoyBrimming with mischief, the gloriously uproarious Dudley Sutton was an actor who epitomised the Elizabethan view of thespians as rogues and vagabonds, “cony-catchers and bawdy-baskets”. His face provided theatre critics with years of poetic inspiration.They described him as “a debauched cherub” and “a fallen angel”; the Guardian’s Michael Billington admired his “b