Pickle and as the caretaker Rocko in Spirited. He also appeared in the 2004 film Love's Brother and in the 2016 Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! His final appearance was with his daughter Lisa Bluthal in her 2018 short film By Any Other Name, a comedy about a daughter dealing with her father's Alzheimer's. Personal life and death Bluthal married actress Judyth Barron in 1956. Together they had daughters Nava and Lisa, but later separated. Barron died in 2016. Bluthal's agent confirmed on 16 November 2018 that the actor had died, aged 89, in New South Wales, Australia. Following his death, fellow The Vicar of Dibley actor Dawn French said "Tons of happy laughs remembered today. Cheeky, naughty, hilarious. Bye darlin' Bluey." On 22 December 2018, BBC One aired The Vicar of Dibley'''s December 1996 episode "The Christmas Lunch Incident" with a caption at the end remembering Bluthal's death. Similarly the final episode of the lockdown edition of The Vicar of Dibley'' ended with a tribute just before the closing credits reading, "In loving memory of Liz, John, Emma and Roger", paying tribute to him and also three other deceased Dibley cast members (Liz Smith, Emma Chambers and Roger Lloyd-Pack). Bluthal's sister Nita married Stephen Murray-Smith, making Joanna Murray-Smith his niece. Filmography Film TV series References External links John Bluthal at Filmreference John Bluthal at BBC Comedy Guide 1929 births 2018 deaths Australian emigrants to England Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent British male film actors British male radio actors British male stage actors British male television actors British male voice actors British people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish Australian male actors Jewish British male actors People from Ternopil Oblast Polish emigrants to Australia Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom University of Melbourne alumni 20th-century British male actors 21st-century British male actors