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Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 - 20 September 1988) was a British character actor. He played the father of spoiled rich girl Veruca Salt in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

On 19 September 1988, Kinnear fell from a horse during the making of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, and sustained a broken pelvis. He was taken to a hospital in Madrid but died from a heart attack the next day. He was 54 years old. He is buried in East Sheen Cemetery.

Interestingly, he and James Fox were both in the same film, Anna Pavlova, as fellow actors.

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