‘Handsome, boyish – and he can cook!’ Richard O’Sullivan landed on TV like a lovable alien

<p>It was taken as read in the 1970s that all women, given the chance, would go out with him. But the star wasn’t just a new man – he was a radical presence</p><p>Richard O’Sullivan, who has died at the age of 82, arrived in acting by accident. As a boy, he’d come back from a famil