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- Maggie Jones was born on 21 June 1934 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), The Forsyte Saga (1967) and Sense and Sensibility (1971). She was married to John Oliver Stansfield. She died on 2 December 2009 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
- Jill Summers was best known to British TV viewers for her role as the gravel-voiced battleaxe Phyllis Pearce in ITV's Coronation Street but before winning fame in the soap she had a long career as a singer in revue and variety.
Born in Eccles, Lancashire, the daughter of actress Marie Santoni, her father worked in a circus as a tightrope walker. Summers had four sisters and a brother and at the age of six she toured with them, singing and dancing in small scale revues where she was singled out by producers as a budding comedienne. In her early twenties she formed a song and comedy act with her brother Tom.
She toured with ENSA during World War Two entertaining the troops and after the war returned to variety where she worked as a solo act on bills with such stars as Tommy Trinder, Max Wall, Dick Emery and Arthur Askey.
As variety theatres began to close in the 1950s she appeared in summer seasons and pantomimes but in 1972 was offered the role of Bessie Procter, Hilda Ogden's (Jean Alexander) lady friend in Coronation Street. Ten years later she first appeared as Phyllis Pearce expecting the role to last only two weeks. She appeared in more than 500 episodes of the soap although poor health in later years kept her appearances to a minimum. Serious health worries first surfaced when she collapsed with angina on the set of This Is Your Life when host Michael Aspel handed her the famous red book.
Commenting on her role as Phyllis Pearce she said, "Phyllis just grew on me and grew as a character. I love the part." - He was in a play at Stockport's Theatre Royal when he met 'Teddy', who had been training at the Manchester Ballet School, and had gone back stage . They were married some months later when he was in rep in Halifax. He was called up for war service in June 1940, just after their 3rd child had been born, and spent 5 years with the 1st Battalion Loyals Regiment serving in North Africa and Demobbed as a corporal he returned to rep but with productions often not being forth coming was forced to take other work such as working on building sites, and in an ice cream factory, 3 years delivering bread and a year running a Manchester pub, which was a disaster. In between he managed to get small parts on television then in 1958 he got a staff job with Granada Television as an announcer and did the first announcement for the opening episode of Coronation Street little knowing that some years hence he would be appearing in it. He's married with 5 children - Brian,Ann,Peter, Diana and Michael. His father was a diamond cutter with a jewellery firm.
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John Irwin was born on 13 December 1912 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a producer and editor, known for Badger's Green (1949), A Piece of Cake (1948) and Kaleidoscope (1946). He was married to Philippa Hiatt. He died on 23 October 1976 in Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.- Tony Harwood was born on 17 December 1929. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Billion Dollar Brain (1967) and BBC Play of the Month (1965). He died on 11 August 2005 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
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Iris Sharples was born in 1934 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Boy A (2007), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Off Their Rockers (2013). She was married to George Sharples. She died on 22 November 2013 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.- Actor
Terence Downing was born on 23 December 1897 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. He was an actor. He died in 1960 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.- Sophie Lancaster was born on 26 November 1986 in Lancashire, England, UK. Sophie died on 24 August 2007 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
- Natasha Reddican was a TV producer who died by suicide on 27 February 2020 at the age of 31. Natasha "such impressive potential", died nine months after the ITV show The Jeremy Kyle was axed following the suicide of Steve Dymond, who had appeared on the show as a guest days earlier; the episode was never broadcast.
Reddican's boyfriend and colleague on the show , Mackenzie Hanafan said the circumstances of the program being taken off air were "something that weighed on her mind a lot".
Senior Coroner for Manchester West, Timothy Brennand, said at the inquest into Natasha's death that the motivations for her actions appeared "multi-faceted" but he noted that it had been described to him that her job on The Jeremy Kyle Show was seen as "being a family at work such was the close-knit community of those involved". Mr Brennand continued it was a "tragic and harrowing case" involving a young woman with "such impressive potential. She was a local girl made good with a high work ethic who worked her way up from a modest post to become a producer on a well-known television production." - Pat Bonna was born on 11 November 1914 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Comedy Playhouse (1961) and Last of the Summer Wine (1973). She died on 21 April 2011 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
- Chaim Ferscer died on 7 February 2017 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK.