Australian actor Bill Kerr dies at 92

Australian actor Bill Kerr, "the boy from Wagga Wagga" who became one of Tony Hancock's radio sidekicks in the 1950s, has died in Perth aged 92, BBC News reports.

Born in Cape Town in June 1922, he was raised in Australia and became a radio and vaudeville star before moving to the UK in 1947 to further his career.

Appearances in Hancock's Half Hour, The Dam Busters and Doctor Who followed, as did a role in 1960s TV drama Compact.
Returning to Australia in 1979, he had a key role in 1981 film Gallipoli.

His voice is the first to be heard in Peter Weir's World War One epic, exhorting its young sprinter hero to run "as fast as a leopard".

He went on to be seen in TV mini-series Anzacs, horror film Razorback and the 2003 version of Peter Pan.

According to family members, Kerr was watching television at his home in western Australia when he passed away.

"Mum said she could hear him laughing to Seinfeld," his son Wilton told ABC News. "That was one of his favourite shows."