David Wall, who became the youngest principal dancer in the history of the Royal Ballet (as of 1966) and was ranked beside Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell in leading male roles of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday at his home in London. He was 67.

The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden confirmed his death. The cause was cancer, according to British press reports.

Mr. Wall, a handsome redhead widely known as Ginger, created roles by the choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor and, most notably, Kenneth MacMillan. Some of those roles — especially that of Crown Prince Rudolf in MacMillan’s three-act “Mayerling” (1978) — remain exceptional in today’s repertory.

He was also a superlative partner to many ballerinas, including Margot Fonteyn, Lynn Seymour, Natalia Makarova and Alessandra Ferri.