“It is with great sadness to report that my client Kenneth Colley passed away Monday 30th June at around 5:30pm in hospital in Ashford, Kent. He was 87,” Owen wrote. “He had been admitted after a fall with an injured arm, however he quickly contracted Covid which developed into Pneumonia.”

The veteran British actor worked often with Ken Russell and members of Monty Python and played a Soviet colonel in Clint Eastwood's 'Firefox.'

The "Star Wars" and "Monty Python's Life of Brian" actor "passed away peacefully" following COVID, pneumonia diagnoses