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'Fawlty Towers' actor David Kelly dies

Irish actor David Kelly, who played Charlie's Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and faced the ire of Mrs. Fawlty as the inept builder O'Reilly in the second episode of "Fawlty Towers," has died in his native Dublin. He was 82.

Kelly's vast stage, TV and film career saw him become a theater luminary early on, with what The Irish Times called a "legendary" 1959...

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