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Paul Eddington was a tall, debonair actor who achieved international success in the 1970s with The Good Life (1975), a popular television series about a young couple farming their backyard in a London suburb. He played the supporting role of neighbor Jerry Leadbetter. It was the hit comedy series Yes Minister (1980), and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister (1986), in the 1980s that brought him television stardom as the inept politician Jim Hacker. The actor's performances as an incompetent government minister were so admired by Margaret Thatcher that she awarded him the honor of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Despite suffering from skin cancer, he continued to perform on stage and television, concealing his illness, until the tabloid press began suggesting that he had AIDS.

Paul Eddington in Yes, Prime Minister (1986)

People abroad tended to play safe and treat me as a minister, just in case.

A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be &#39;He did very little harm&#39;. And that&#39;s not easy -- most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.

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