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Jul 30, 2012 · Given the chance, Hughes was a versatile actor, but he could wander from one production to another playing the same type, and it is that role of Eddie Yeats which defined him.
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Jul 30, 2012 · In a remarkable career, Geoffrey Hughes – although playing major roles in many of television’s most popular programmes – never became typecast.
In 1974, Hughes was cast as binman Eddie Yeats in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street. [4] Over the next nine years he became, with Stan Ogden (as played by Bernard Youens), a foil for Stan's long-suffering wife Hilda (Jean Alexander).
YearTitleRole1967Party Boy1967Builder1968Pvt. Samuel (cook)1968Jul 30, 2012 · He felt typecast, and his weekly trips to the Granada studios in Manchester were keeping him away too long from his family and his 240-acre farm in Northamptonshire. Hughes believed acting was...
Jul 30, 2012 · IN A remarkable career, Geoffrey Hughes – although playing major roles in many of television’s most popular programmes – never became typecast.
Jul 30, 2012 · Geoffrey Hughes, one of the true British comedy greats, was also known to many over the years for his supporting role as Twiggy in The Royle Family, Vernon, in Heartbeat and binman, Eddie Yeats, in Coronation Street during the 1970’s and 80’s.
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Whilst often typecast as the "loveable rogue" type character, he was a superb actor. Whether as the slowish Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances (1990), Twiggy in the The Royle Family (1998), or the affable Vernon Scripps in Heartbeat (1992), Hughes was a man who knew how to win the affection of television audiences.
