Editing Bill Owen (actor) (section)

== Illness and death ==
While filming the ''Last of the Summer Wine'' French special for the millennium of 2000, Owen fell ill but insisted on continuing despite being in pain; when he got back to England, he was confirmed as having pancreatic and bowel cancer.

He continued working right up to his death from pancreatic cancer in [[Westminster]], London,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp|title=Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006|website=Findmypast.com|access-date=26 October 2018|archive-date=23 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823064352/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref> on 12 July 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/13/guardianobituaries1|title=Bill Owen|website=The Guardian|access-date=27 December 2018|author=Dennis Barker|date=13 July 1999}}</ref> Owen is buried in the churchyard of St John's Parish Church, [[Upperthong]], near his beloved town of [[Holmfirth]] in [[Yorkshire]], the home of ''Last of the Summer Wine''. His co-star Peter Sallis was buried next to him after his death aged 96 in June 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/last-summer-wine-star-peter-14103261 |title=Last of the Summer Wine star Peter Sallis is laid to rest next to co-star Bill Owen in Holmfirth |newspaper=[[Huddersfield Examiner]] |date=2 January 2018 |access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref>