Betty Driver Memorial Soapstar Superstar Thread

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Who were they we had Anne Kirkbride this year Bill Tarmey in 2012 and Betty Driver in 2011 but I can`t think of any others.I definitely think that Jean Alexander should have a place on next years list and Liz Dawn.

Maggie Jones. I was trying to think of the 4th myself but I'd forgotten about Bill Tarmey!

she died back in 2009.

Wow!! Feels more recent than that. In that case I've got no idea who Guest Guest is talking about!!

His definition of major must be rather loose but anne, bill, hibbard and sophia haqyes might be the four?

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Getting back on-topic. What's a pub doing employing an 86 year old? That job could go to a young unemployed person.

I have noticed that Betty's hotpot dosen't seem to be served in the Rovers anymore, it seems to have been phased out by sandwiches, maybe thats so when she actually does retire, no one will miss her, as there wont be anyone to make the hotpot, or will it be a case of a stranger wandering into the rovers and asking for a Betty's and getting a Fred's instead and then commenting on how things ain't what they used to be, will her hotpots live on after her, or will she just be forgotten?

 

You'd be amazed.

 

There's a pub near where I am at the moment (let's just say east Kent) that has had the same landlord since 1948. He's in his late 80s now.

 

His bed is around the corner of the bar, he doesn't believe in pumps so the beer comes from a tap in the barrell, the till is his pocket and the prices always change.

 

If you drink there late he leaves the keys and asks you to lock up and pop them through the door when you leave.

 

It's kitted out in genuine 1960s furniture, with 1970s glasses.

 

Oh, nobody ever goes there because the only sign that there is a pub is a handpainted bit of cardboard saying "ReAl aLE --- thIS wAy"

 

It's known as the pub you take somebody else's wife to...

 

 

 

Is this place still open, sounds perfect for a DL meet.

 

Liz Dawn does not expect to live another year. http://uk.tv.yahoo.c...-123306736.html Bit of a miss not having her on this years list esp after Bill Tarmeys death!

 

Yet she's still kicking a few years later.

 

 

I know it's in bad taste but of the big four foverer presents who'll go first? June Brown, William Roache, Eileen Derbyshire or Adam Woodyatt?

 

Is Eileen Derbyshire still on the Street? I thought she had left and then remembered that I was thinking of Thelma Barlow.

 

 

Yes, she's appearing less often these days but she's still around.

 

 

Yes I can see her lurking on your shadow list.

 

Sue Nicholls is worth paying attention to. She had a brush with cancer but more interestingly she is the only surviving 'ghost' from Rentaghost and she is married to Mark Eden (Alan Bradley) who will be 87 this year.

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Anyone have any health info on Leonard Fenton? He played Dr. Legg in Eastenders, but I remember him best as Erich Gottlieb from Shine On Harvey Moon.

[YoungWillz 19,054]

 

 

 

Who were they we had Anne Kirkbride this year Bill Tarmey in 2012 and Betty Driver in 2011 but I can`t think of any others.I definitely think that Jean Alexander should have a place on next years list and Liz Dawn.

Maggie Jones. I was trying to think of the 4th myself but I'd forgotten about Bill Tarmey!

she died back in 2009.

Wow!! Feels more recent than that. In that case I've got no idea who Guest Guest is talking about!!

 

Lyndam Gregory (Sammy Patel) was last year, but I'd hardly class him as major...

[Sean 5,997]

He wan`t major at all .To be classed as major I`d say you have to have been in it at least a decade or have been in some high powered iconic storyline like Richard Hillman or Alan Bradley.These are the only living cast members I would say are major and over 60:

Jean Alexander

Mark Eden

Thelma Barlow

Stephen Hancock

Irene Sutcliffe

Eileen Derbyshire

William Roache

Barbara Knox

Peter Baldwin

Roy Barraclough

Johnny Briggs

Amanda Barrie

Philip Lowrie

John Savident

Liz Dawn

Malcolm Hebden

Julie Goodyear

Sue Nicholls

Brian Capron

David Neilson

Helen Worth

Bruce Jones

 

The only major deaths in the last ten years have been:

Lynne Perrie(2006)

Jennifer Moss(2006)

Maggie Jones (2009)

Betty Driver(2011)

Bill Tarmey (2012)

Geoffrey Hughes (2012)-EDIT :That's probably the fourth!

Anne Kirkbride(2015)

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Thanks Shaun for next years theme team.

[Bibliogryphon 8,657]

He wan`t major at all .To be classed as major I`d say you have to have been in it at least a decade or have been in some high powered iconic storyline like Richard Hillman or Alan Bradley.These are the only living cast members I would say are major and over 60:

Jean Alexander

Mark Eden

Thelma Barlow

Stephen Hancock

Irene Sutcliffe

Eileen Derbyshire

William Roache

Barbara Knox

Peter Baldwin

Roy Barraclough

Johnny Briggs

Amanda Barrie

Philip Lowrie

John Savident

Liz Dawn

Malcolm Hebden

Julie Goodyear

Sue Nicholls

Brian Capron

David Neilson

Helen Worth

Bruce Jones

 

The only major deaths in the last ten years have been:

Lynne Perrie(2006)

Jennifer Moss(2006)

Maggie Jones (2009)

Betty Driver(2011)

Bill Tarmey (2012)

Geoffrey Hughes (2012)-EDIT :That's probably the fourth!

Anne Kirkbride(2015)

Ken Morley (aged 72)?

[YoungWillz 19,054]

Ros na Run actor Diarmuid Mac An Adhastair has died at the age of 71. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/ros-na-runs-diarmuid-mac-an-adhastair-dies-686033.html

[Sean 5,997]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3134312/Former-Coronation-Street-star-Bruce-Jones-reveals-blew-1million-benefits-axed-soap.html Former Coronation Street star Bruce Jones is now living on benefits.Given his alcoholism and previous suicide attempts he might well be worth keeping an eye on.He is the sort of guy you can`t imagine seeing old bones.

[Sean 5,997]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bill-treacher-leaving-role-arthur-5169707 :Found this from February.Bill Treacher who played Arthur Fowler is now 85 and wheelchair bound due to a disease called Ataxia which basically is neurological damage of some sort.He also notes that he left Eastenders due to migraines most likely linked to stress which is probably high blood pressure.Doesn`t look like he is in immediate danger but certainly not getting any younger.

[YoungWillz 19,054]

David McAlister, UK stage, screen and voice actor who played Dennis Richardson in Hollyoaks, died on 26 June aged 64 from cancer. He was also in The Archers. https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2015/obituary-david-mcalister/

 

Just checked IMDB: You can add Triangle (in which he played a doctor), Doctors and Holby City. But more importantly he was the Megara voice in the Tom Baker story Stones of Blood for Dr Who.

 

With all those doctor parts/shows, you'd have thought he would have had longer. RIP.

[Sean 5,997]

 

Not a comprehensive list I admit as I did it in about an hour or so .Feel free to note any mistakes /absences

 

Oldest living soap actors and actresses 80+:

 

 

 

Sheila Mercier 1/1/19 (96) Emmerdale 1972-94 1995,1996 ,2009

June Spencer 14/6/19 (96) The Archers (950,1951-53 ,1962-Present

Elizabeth Kelly 29/5/21 (94) -Coronation Street 1971 ,Eastenders 1993-90,2000

Vivean Gray 20/7/24 (91)-Neighbours 1986-88

William Lucas 14/4/25 (90) Eldorado 1992-93, Corronation Street 1971, 1996

Doreen Keogh 2/5/25 (90) -Coronation Street 1960–64, 1967, 1972, 1975

Ysanne Churchman 14/5/25(90) -The Archers 1950.1951-55)

Robert Fyfe 19/6/25 (90) Coronation Street 2012

Honor Blackman 22/8/25 (89) Coronation Street 2004

June Whitfield 11/11/25 (89) Coronation Street 2010,Eastenders 2015

Jean Alexander 24/2/26 (89) Coronation Street 1964-87

Leonard Fenton 29/4/26 (89) Eastenders 1985–97, 2000, 2004, 2007

Doreen Mantle 1926 (88/89) Coroantion Street 2011

June Brown 16/27 (88) Coronation Street 1970 Eastenders 1985-1993,1997-Present

Heather Chasen 20/7/27 (88) Crossroads 1982-86 ,Eastenders 2011

Freddie Jones 12/9/27 (87) Emmerdale 2005-Present

Mark Eden 14.2.28 (87) Coronation Street 1986-89

Bernard Cribbins 29/12/28 (86) Coronation Street 2003

Colin Skipp 1928 (86/87) The Archers 1967-2013)

Thelma Barlow 19/6/29(86) Coronation Street (1971-1997)

Stephen Hancock 1929 (85/86) Coronation Street 1967,1969-1978

Frank Mills 1929 (85/86) Coronation Street 1995-1997

Rosemary Prinz 4.1.30 (85) As the world turns 1956-2000

Paula Tilbrook 16/1/30 (85) Coronation Street 1977,1978-80,1991-93 Emmerdale 1994-2015

Andrew Sachs 7/4/30 (85) Coronation Street 2009

Bill Treacher 4/6/30 (85) Eastenders 1985-96

Edward Kelsey June 1930 (85) The Archers 1985-Present

Irene Sutcliffe 12/7/30 (85) Coronation Street 1968-75

Kenneth Cope 14/6/31 (84) Coronation Street 1961-63,66,2009 Brookside 1999-2002

Eileen Derbyshire 6/10/31 (Some sources state 1929 and 1930) Coronation Street 1961-Present

Antony Booth 9/10/31 (83)Coronation Street 1960,Eastenders 2003,Emmerdale 2007

Patricia Green 1931 (83/84) The Archers 1957-Present

Lionel Blair 11/12/31 (83) Emmerdale 2008 (as himself)

William Roache 25/4/32 (83) Coronation Street 1960-Present

Prunella Scales 22/6/32 (83) Coronation Street 1961

Edward de Souza 4/9/32 (82) Coronation Street 2008-09

Robert Vaughn 22/11/32 (82) Coronation Street 2012

Roland Curram 1932 (82/83) Eldorado 1992-93

Dudley Sutton 6/4/33 (82) Easrenders 2004 Emmerdale 1997,2014

Derek Martin 11/4/33 (82) Eastenders 2000-11 ,2013

Peter Baldwin 29/7/33 (81) Coronation Street 1976-97

Eileen Fulton 13/9/33 (81) As The World Turns 1960-2010

Barbara Knox 30/9/33 (81) Coronation Street (1964,1972-Present)

Jamila Massey 7/1/34 (81)Albion Market 1985, Brookside 1989, Eastenders 1997,Coronation Street 2010-11

Don Hastings 1/4/34 1960-2010 As the world turns 1960-2010

Keith Barron 8/8/34 (80) Coronation Street 2007

Timothy West 20/10/34 Coronation Street 2013 Eastenders 2014-15

Peter Martin 1934 (80/81) Emmerdale 2001-07

Lesley Saeward 1934 (80/81) The Archers 1953-Present

Anne Reid 28/5/35 (80) Coronation Street 1961,1962-71)

Roy Barracluogh 12/7/35 (80) Coronation Street 1972, 1975, 1986–92, 1995–98

Mona Hammond 1935 (79/80_ Eastenders 1994-97,2010

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Not a comprehensive list I admit as I did it in about an hour or so .Feel free to note any mistakes /absences

 

Oldest living soap actors and actresses 80+:

 

 

 

Sheila Mercier 1/1/19 (96) Emmerdale 1972-94 1995,1996 ,2009

June Spencer 14/6/19 (96) The Archers (950,1951-53 ,1962-Present

Elizabeth Kelly 29/5/21 (94) -Coronation Street 1971 ,Eastenders 1993-90,2000

Vivean Gray 20/7/24 (91)-Neighbours 1986-88

Doreen Keogh 2/5/25 (90) -Coronation Street 1960–64, 1967, 1972, 1975

Ysanne Churchman 14/5/25(90) -The Archers 1950.1951-55)

Robert Fyfe 19/6/25 (90) Coronation Street 2012

Honor Blackman 22/8/25 (89) Coronation Street 2004

June Whitfield 11/11/25 (89) Coronation Street 2010,Eastenders 2015

Jean Alexander 24/2/26 (89) Coronation Street 1964-87

Leonard Fenton 29/4/26 (89) Eastenders 1985–97, 2000, 2004, 2007

Doreen Mantle 1926 (88/89) Coroantion Street 2011

June Brown 16/27 (88) Coronation Street 1970 Eastenders 1985-1993,1997-Present

Heather Chasen 20/7/27 (88) Crossroads 1982-86 ,Eastenders 2011

Freddie Jones 12/9/27 (87) Emmerdale 2005-Present

Mark Eden 14.2.28 (87) Coronation Street 1986-89

Bernard Cribbins 29/12/28 (86) Coronation Street 2003

Colin Skipp 1928 (86/87) The Archers 1967-2013)

Thelma Barlow 19/6/29(86) Coronation Street (1971-1997)

Stephen Hancock 1929 (85/86) Coronation Street 1967,1969-1978

Frank Mills 1929 (85/86) Coronation Street 1995-1997

Rosemary Prinz 4.1.30 (85) As the world turns 1956-2000

Paula Tilbrook 16/1/30 (85) Coronation Street 1977,1978-80,1991-93 Emmerdale 1994-2015

Andrew Sachs 7/4/30 (85) Coronation Street 2009

Bill Treacher 4/6/30 (85) Eastenders 1985-96

Edward Kelsey June 1930 (85) The Archers 1985-Present

Irene Sutcliffe 12/7/30 (85) Coronation Street 1968-75

Kenneth Cope 14/6/31 (84) Coronation Street 1961-63,66,2009 Brookside 1999-2002

Eileen Derbyshire 6/10/31 (Some sources state 1929 and 1930) Coronation Street 1961-Present

Antony Booth 9/10/31 (83)Coronation Street 1960,Eastenders 2003,Emmerdale 2007

Patricia Green 1931 (83/84) The Archers 1957-Present

Lionel Blair 11/12/31 (83) Emmerdale 2008 (as himself)

William Roache 25/4/32 (83) Coronation Street 1960-Present

Prunella Scales 22/6/32 (83) Coronation Street 1961

Edward de Souza 4/9/32 (82) Coronation Street 2008-09

Robert Vaughn 22/11/32 (82) Coronation Street 2012

Dudley Sutton 6/4/33 (82) Easrenders 2004 Emmerdale 1997,2014

Derek Martin 11/4/33 (82) Eastenders 2000-11 ,2013

Peter Baldwin 29/7/33 (81) Coronation Street 1976-97

Eileen Fulton 13/9/33 (81) As The World Turns 1960-2010

Barbara Knox 30/9/33 (81) Coronation Street (1964,1972-Present)

Jamila Massey 7/1/34 (81) Coronation Street 2010-11

Don Hastings 1/4/34 1960-2010 As the world turns 1960-2010

Keith Barron 8/8/34 (80) Coronation Street 2007

Timothy West 20/10/34 Coronation Street 2013 Eastenders 2014-15

Peter Martin 1934 (80/81) Emmerdale 2001-07

Lesley Saeward 1934 (80/81) The Archers 1953-Present

Roy Barracluogh 12/7/35 (80) Coronation Street 1972, 1975, 1986–92, 1995–98

Mona Hammond 1935 (79/80_ Eastenders 1994-97,2010

 

Roland Curram 1932 (82/83) Eldorado 1992-93

William Lucas 14/4/25 (90) Eldorado 1992-93, Coronation Street 1996

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Also to add to that list

 

Jamaila Massey - 7/1/34 (81) Albion Market 1985, Brookside 1989, Eastenders 1997, Coronation Street 2010

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A lot of these names were on my radar often from other sources but many of the Coronation Street and Archers ones were new to me.

 

Thanks for the research.

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You know what, I'd like to see Doreen Keogh on the DL in a tribute to this forum managing to get her Wikipedia entry changed from "dead" to "living". Surely a run behind the bar at the Rovers' Return in the 60s, plus her standout appearance in that Father Ted episode, should see her qualify as DL-suitable?

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You know what, I'd like to see Doreen Keogh on the DL in a tribute to this forum managing to get her Wikipedia entry changed from "dead" to "living". Surely a run behind the bar at the Rovers' Return in the 60s, plus her standout appearance in that Father Ted episode, should see her qualify as DL-suitable?

 

Not forgetting regular appearances as next-door neighbour Mary in The Royle Family.

[Bibliogryphon 8,657]

 

You know what, I'd like to see Doreen Keogh on the DL in a tribute to this forum managing to get her Wikipedia entry changed from "dead" to "living". Surely a run behind the bar at the Rovers' Return in the 60s, plus her standout appearance in that Father Ted episode, should see her qualify as DL-suitable?

 

Not forgetting regular appearances as next-door neighbour Mary in The Royle Family.

 

 

Doreen Keogh's Wiki entry is only four lines long but I have a feeling she is the sort of person who should get an Obit and possibly the introduction to an article about the early cast of Coronation Street.

 

They did a Grange Hill Where are they now? when Terry-Sue Patt died

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I think, because she was the first ever barmaid in the Rovers, she might even sneak a quick 10 second mention before the break on News at 10 assuming its a quiet day.

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You know what, I'd like to see Doreen Keogh on the DL in a tribute to this forum managing to get her Wikipedia entry changed from "dead" to "living". Surely a run behind the bar at the Rovers' Return in the 60s, plus her standout appearance in that Father Ted episode, should see her qualify as DL-suitable?

 

Not forgetting regular appearances as next-door neighbour Mary in The Royle Family.

 

 

Doreen Keogh's Wiki entry is only four lines long but I have a feeling she is the sort of person who should get an Obit and possibly the introduction to an article about the early cast of Coronation Street.

 

They did a Grange Hill Where are they now? when Terry-Sue Patt died

 

 

Hopefully her death would inspire a re-run of some of the really early corrie episodes.

[Sean 5,997]

I concur with spade she should make the news however briefly but she is a shoe in for the BBC website the mail and the guardian. She was in Corrie on and off for 15 years which should cement her chances. After all Lyndam Gregory and Sophia Haque got fairly wide online coverage and they wheren`t in the show very long .Does anyone here remember her being on the street? I know a fair bit about the show but can`t gage how important she was to the show at the time.

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I concur with spade she should make the news however briefly but she is a shoe in for the BBC website the mail and the guardian. She was in Corrie on and off for 15 years which should cement her chances. After all Lyndam Gregory and Sophia Haque got fairly wide online coverage and they wheren`t in the show very long .Does anyone here remember her being on the street? I know a fair bit about the show but can`t gage how important she was to the show at the time.

 

I only remember her from clips of the show when they ran tributes for other actors that were in it about the same time such as Pat Phoenix

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I concur with spade she should make the news however briefly but she is a shoe in for the BBC website the mail and the guardian. She was in Corrie on and off for 15 years which should cement her chances. After all Lyndam Gregory and Sophia Haque got fairly wide online coverage and they wheren`t in the show very long .Does anyone here remember her being on the street? I know a fair bit about the show but can`t gage how important she was to the show at the time.

 

I only remember her from clips of the show when they ran tributes for other actors that were in it about the same time such as Pat Phoenix

 

 

I might have remembered her - the character's name is certainly familiar - but my parents' TV only got BBC, so I never saw Coronation Street until the telly eventually died and was replaced.

[YoungWillz 19,054]

Former Brookside actor Sean McKee, 54, epileptic fit. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tributes-paid-former-brookside-actor-6168547

[Dead Wait 1,096]

In memory of the late Deidre Barlow this thread should be renamed as the Anne Kirkbride memorial thread......