The death has been announced of the actor Geoffrey Hinsliff, best known for playing Coronation Street's Don Brennan. He was 87.
It is reported that Hinsliff died earlier this week.
He played Don Brennan in the ITV soap from 1987 to 1997 and was at the centre of one of the show's biggest storylines when he kidnapped Alma (played by Amanda Barrie) and drove the car in which they were travelling into a canal.
Don and Alma both survived, and he then tried to kill Alma's husband Mike (played by Johnny Briggs) by driving a car at him - killing himself in the process.
Paying tribute, Hinsliff's former co-star Helen Worth, who plays Gail Platt, said: "Geoff was a lovely, quiet man who will be sadly missed by us all.
"His partnership with Lynne Perrie (who played his on-screen wife Ivy) was something rather special and they gave the viewers huge pleasure for many years."
Leeds-born Hinsliff's many other credits included the series Doctor Who, Heartbeat, The Professionals, and I, Claudius, and the films A Bridge Too Far and O Lucky Man!.
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