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 who also 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.
