Actor Harold Hopkins passed away from Mesothelioma

Harold Hopkins, 69 year old  Australian actor dies  in Neringah Private Hospital in Wahroonga, north Sydney on 11 December 2011, following  a  battle with mesothelioma cancer. His family thinks that he was exposed to asbestos fibres without protective clothing or masks on his  first job after he finished high school. Harold took up asbestos sheeting as an apprentice carpenter in Queensland, in the early 1960s.