In the mid-1970s, director Richard Lester collaborated with writer George MacDonald Fraser to adapt Alexander Dumas's seminal novel The Three Musketeers to the big screen. While the result was questionable in terms of its authenticity to the source text, the movies were nevertheless popular endeavours, not least on account of the performances from a fantastic cast including Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston and Faye Dunaway. Reuniting much of the original cast in 1989, Lester directed The Return of the Musketeers, based loosely on Dumas's Twenty Years Later. British character actor played the role of Planchet in both the original movies as well as the later sequel - a much loved screen presence for fans of British cinema, The Return of the Musketeers was to be his final movie. After falling from a horse and breaking his pelvis, Kinnear died of a heart attack after being treated in a Spanish hospital. His death led director Richard Lester to quit the film industry.
