In Twice Round the Daffodils (1962), Ronald had appeared alongside Kenneth Williams, who later committed suicide. When Lewis committed suicide by taking a barbiturate overdose at a boarding house in Pimlico,[14] Williams recorded in his diary entry for 12 January 1982: "The paper says Ronald Lewis has taken an overdose! He was declared bankrupt last year! Obviously nobody offered him work & he was driven to despair. I remember Ronnie... and that drinking session at the White Horse all those years ago... he was a kind boy & people used him. He was 53