Two years before his death, Ewen MacIntosh gave an indication that all wasn’t well with him. In February 2022, he shared a picture of himself in what appeared to be a hospital bed and wrote, “Bad times for me I’m afraid chums. [Stay] strong out there.” Fans wished MacIntosh well and made references to his character’s love of Scotch eggs. “Let me know where you are, I’ll send scotch eggs. X,” one replied. “Where should I send the edible arrangement of scotch eggs?” another wrote. Over the course of his time on “The Office,” MacIntosh ate a lot of the fried hard-boiled egg. In an interview with Vice, he shared, “My first scene with Martin [Freeman], where I eat the Scotch egg — we had trouble doing that for some reason. It took ages to get that done. I got through a lot of Scotch eggs.”
While MacIntosh has endeared himself to “The Office” fans for his portrayal of Keith Bishop, he had a successful career following the end of the show. He reunited with Ricky Gervais for the Netflix show “After Life” with a brief cameo as a man who gets thrown out of an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. “I think a lot of actors do get type-cast one way or another. You kind of, you have to play to your strengths really,” MacIntosh told Actors Anonymous UK in 2021. He added with the humor fans have grown to love, “We can’t all be Benedict Cumberbatch, you know.”