a break in filming of the fifth series, he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France. The programme continued to the end of series five and for a sixth series, to tie up the storylines, with Colbourne's character being written out of the scripts. Filmography References External links Maurice Colbourne on Stages of Half Moon 1939 births 1989 deaths 20th-century English male actors Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors Male actors from Sheffield