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Geoffrey Hughes

1944 - 2012

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Geoffrey William Hughes DL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) and "Twiggy" in the sitcom The Royle Family, playing the part from 1998 to 2008. From 2001 to 2005 he played conman and rogue businessman Vernon Scripps in the ITV police drama Heartbeat, taking over as the show's main rogue from Bill Maynard's Claude Greengrass, and returning to the programme briefly in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Hughes is the 2,292nd most popular actor (up from 6,589th in 2019), the 2,322nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,833rd in 2019) and the 292nd most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Geoffrey Hughes ranks 2,292 out of 13,578. Before him are Shirley Jones, Elga Andersen, Katherine Heigl, Itziar Ituño, Vincent Perez, and Dany Boon. After him are Rosa Albach-Retty, David Janssen, Sarah Miles, Josh Dallas, Gig Young, and Guillaume Depardieu.

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Among people born in 1944, Geoffrey Hughes ranks 297. Before him are Peter Bieri, Robert Hanssen, Christine Chubbuck, Sandra Faber, Bo Larsson, and Lars Norén. After him are Jacques-Alain Miller, Rebecca Horn, Carlos Pachamé, Whitfield Diffie, Wolfgang Weber, and John McCook. Among people deceased in 2012, Geoffrey Hughes ranks 155. Before him are Han Suyin, Gae Aulenti, Daniel Inouye, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Eiko Ishioka, and Jiří Raška. After him are Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Bob Anderson, Maxim of Bulgaria, and George McGovern.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hughes ranks 2,322 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Byrne (1929), Thomas Otway (1652), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Peter Crouch (1981), Robert Maynard (1684), and Taliesin (518). After him are George Frederic Watts (1817), Sarah Miles (1941), William Kent (1685), Robert Kerr (1755), John Webster (1578), and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Hughes ranks 292. Before him are John Williams (1903), Riz Ahmed (1982), Michael Sheen (1969), Miranda Richardson (1958), Tom Courtenay (1937), and Jim Carter (1948). After him are Sarah Miles (1941), Murray Head (1946), Joan Hickson (1906), Rupert Grint (1988), Bob Anderson (1922), and Robert Donat (1905).

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