Overview
- Best known as Frank Blakey in early Emmerdale Farm, including the soap’s first wedding to Janie Harker, before leaving in January 1974.
- Portrayed Bert Fry on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers for roughly 25 years after joining in 1997, with final appearances in 2020.
- Trained at RADA after returning from Canada at 18, following a childhood in Yorkshire and Wolverhampton.
- Worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and led Mike Leigh’s debut feature Bleak Moments, alongside TV credits such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Coronation Street.
- He is survived by his wife, Susan, and their two children, while one report citing The Telegraph states he died on February 8.