COMEDY star Reg Varney has died at the age of 92, his daughter has announced.Varney was probably best known as the star of the long-running ITV sitcom On The Buses, in which he played driver Stan Butler, during the early 1970sThe sitcom also spawned a number of big-screen spin-offs.
COMEDY star Reg Varney has died at the age of 92, his daughter has announced.
Varney was probably best known as the star of the long-running ITV sitcom On The Buses, in which he played driver Stan Butler, during the early 1970s
The sitcom also spawned a number of big-screen spin-offs.
He had been an entertainer since the second world war, but it was only with his role in On the Buses that he really became a household name.
His wife died in 2002 but leaves a daughter, two grandchildren, and a great grandchild.
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