Death
In January 1993 Cadell suffered a near-fatal heart attack after giving a recital with Joanna Lumley at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in London. The doctors singled out smoking as a contributory cause - at one stage Cadell smoked 80 cigarettes a day - but he was back at work playing in Travels with My Aunt (for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance) at the Wyndhams Theatre four months after a triple bypass operation. In September the same year, cancer was detected.
On 6 March 1996 Cadell died at the age of 45, 12 weeks before his best friend Jeremy Sinden also died of lung cancer, who had been born 5 weeks before him and whose father, Donald Sinden, had been a client of Cadell's father John, for over 30 years.
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