car accident whilst driving his Honda CRX, during the Burns' Day Storm on 25 January 1990. Although he could not remember any details of the incident, he retained a scar on his forehead from a piece of wooden advertising hoarding that had smashed through the car windscreen. Writing in his memoirs, 'Allo 'Allo! co-writer Jeremy Lloyd said he visited Kaye in hospital, adding, "I believe part of his recovery was due to his agent getting a video and showing reruns of '''Allo 'Allo! to remind him who he was." While recovering in hospital from emergency brain surgery to treat injuries sustained in the accident, Kaye was photographed and interviewed by two Sunday Sport journalists, Gary Thompson and Ray Levine. On Kaye's behalf, his agent Peter Froggatt, sued the newspaper, but the Court of Appeal held, in Kaye v Robertson, that there was no remedy in English law for an invasion of privacy. Death Kaye suffered from dementia and spent the last two years of his life in a care home in Knaresborough, where he died, on 23 January 2017, at the age of 75. His funeral was held at Huddersfield Parish Church on 17 February. His co-stars from 'Allo 'Allo! Vicki Michelle, Sue Hodge and Kim Hartman attended, as did Ken Morley, also from Coronation Street, who gave a tribute. The unofficial Yorkshire anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" was sung at the service. Filmography Books René and Me: An Autobiography, co-written with Hilary Bonner, Sidgwick & Jackson, September 1989, References External links Gorden Kaye at bfi.com 1941 births 2017 deaths People educated at King James's School, Almondbury Male actors from Huddersfield 20th-century English male actors Male actors from Yorkshire English male stage actors English male soap opera actors English gay actors English gay musicians Gay comedians British male comedy actors People involved in road accidents or incidents 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people British LGBT comedians