Colin Edwynn (23 September 1933 – 31 October 2018) was an actor who appeared as
PC Jimmy Conway in the British television soap opera ''
Coronation Street'' between 1967 and 1972.
Career
He appeared in several episodes of the long running BBC Radio comedy ''
The Clitheroe Kid
''The Clitheroe Kid'' was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the North of England. The pilot show, pil ...
'' as Mr Humphrey Brocklebank and worked with
Les Dawson
Leslie Dawson Jr. (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.
Early life
Les Dawson w ...
in his long-running radio show ''
Listen to Les''.
He has also appeared in the television series ''
Bergerac'', ''
Out of the Blue'', ''
Wycliffe'' and ''
Heartbeat''. Edwynn also made an appearance in one episode of the
sitcom
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''
Dinnerladies''.
From 1981 he ran the Queen's Head pub in
Tebworth, Bedfordshire.
Personal life
Born as Colin Edwin Thompson, on becoming an actor he changed his name to Colin Edwynn - his surname made up of the name of his idol actor
Ed Wynn
Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian. He was noted for his ''Perfect Fool'' comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a d ...
.
In 1959 he married Elizabeth Quickfall. They had two sons together. His wife predeceased him. Edwynn died in
Luton
Luton () is a town and unitary authority with borough status, in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 census, the Luton built-up area subdivision had a population of 211,228 and its built-up area, including the adjacent towns of Dunstable a ...
,
Bedfordshire
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on 31 October 2018 aged 85.
References
External links
English male soap opera actors
2018 deaths
1933 births
Male actors from Manchester
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