Former Coronation Street actor Geoff Hinsliff dies at 87
by Daniel Lavelle from World news | The Guardian on (#6QVWK)
Actor who played dastardly Don Brennan in ITV soap is remembered by family as restless, adventurous and funny'
Geoff Hinsliff, the former Coronation Street star, has died aged 87 after a short illness.
Hinsliff, who also had minor roles in the films O Lucky Man and I, Claudius and played a wireless operator in Richard Attenborough's epic A Bridge Too Far, won the role of Don Brennan on the soap after previously appearing in one episode a decade earlier, in 1977, as a minor character named Eric Baile.
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