British TV Soap Operas

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Index lists for actors in British television soap operas.

The primary focus is on notable deceased actors with or without a Wikitree page, to aid with research, but any actor appearing in the show can be included, even if they only appeared in the background in one scene.

Use these lists to:

• Research and build profiles for actors who do not have them
• Connect actors who have profiles but are unconnected
• Index/categorise actors who have profiles but are not categorised
• Index actors who appeared in the show but do not have profiles

Anyone can add to, edit, modify, improve or extend this page as they see fit, in the collaborative spirit of Wikitree. If anyone thinks they might spend a lot of time here, please ask to be added to the Trusted List.

This page will show in the Categories for shows it includes (if they have their own categories). It is not necessary for this page to be categorised under "Television Shows" - too many pages make important indexes difficult to find.

For the purpose of this page, a soap opera is a continuing drama (no season endings, continuing year-round), broadcast at least once per week.

In the United Kingdom, the "Big Four" soap operas were traditionally:

• Coronation Street (1960-)
• Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale (1972-)
• Eastenders (1985-)
• Brookside (1982-2003)

Crossroads (1964-88 and 2001-03) is also sometimes included. Hollyoaks (1995-) is also usually regarded as a soap, though it has a predominantly younger cast and may be difficult to research for a few decades.

Radio drama The Archers is indexed at BBC Radio.

Australian soaps Neighbours and Home and Away have (more or less) been broadcast daily in the UK since the 1990s. Many actors in the shows have gone on to greater fame in the US. Until/unless they get their own Australia-focused Freespace index page these shows are included here.

Several other less successful attempts to launch soap operas have been made over the years and they can also be included here.

We should not omit Take The High Road which has its own Freespace page already. Or Pobol y Cwm which is respectfully deferred to the Wales Project.

Shows like Casualty which can have 40+ weekly episodes a year but do have season breaks are not considered soap operas (at least not on this page, for now!).

The indexes will be built up into tables showing profile/connection status over time.

Contents 1 Coronation Street 2 EastEnders 3 Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale 4 Brookside 5 Crossroads 6 Hollyoaks 7 Neighbours 8 Home & Away

Coronation Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street
Category: Coronation Street

• Peter Adamson as Len Fairclough
• Peter Armitage as Bill Webster
• Jean Alexander as Hilda Ogden, connected
• Peter Baldwin as Derek Wilton
• Thelma Barlow (Living) as Mavis Wilton
• Amanda Barrie (Living) as Alma Halliwell
• Roy Barraclough as Alec Gilroy
• Johnny Briggs as Mike Baldwin, N/C
• Margot Bryant as Minnie Caldwell
• Neville Buswell as Ray Langton
• Violet Carson as Ena Sharples, connected
• Liz Dawn as Vera Duckworth connected
• Betty Driver as Betty Turpin, connected
• Noel Dyson as Ida Barlow, N/C
• Geoff Hinsliff (wiki) as Don Brennan
• Jack Howarth as Albert Tatlock, connected
• Geoffrey Hughes as Eddie Yeats
• Bill Kenwright as Gordon Clegg
• Arthur Lowe as Leonard Swindley, connected
• Anne Kirkbride as Dierdre Barlow
• Bryan Mosley as Alf Roberts
• Helene Palmer as Ida Clough
• Lynne Perrie as Ivy Brennan
• Pat Phoenix as Elsie Tanner, connected
• John Savident as Fred Elliott, connected
• Doris Speed as Annie Walker
• Jill Summers (wiki) as Phyllis Pearce
• Bill Tarmey as Jack Duckworth
• Bill Waddington as Percy Sugden
• Bernard Youens as Stan Ogden, connected

EastEnders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastEnders
Category: East Enders

• John Bardon as Jim Branning
• Hywel Bennett as Jack Dalton
• Hilda Braid as Nana Moon
• June Brown as Dot Cotton
• Ross Davidson as Andy O'Brien
• Michael Elphick as Harry Slater
• Leonard Fenton as Dr Legg
• Gretchen Franklyn as Ethel Skinner
• Leslie Grantham as Den Watts
• Christopher Hancock as Charlie Cotton
• Anna Karen as Sal Martin
• Sandy Ratcliffe as Sue Osman
• Mike Reid (wiki) as Frank Butcher
• Wendy Richard as Pauline Fowler Not Connected
• David Scarboro as Mark Fowler (I)
• Roberta Taylor (wiki) as Irene Raymond 1948-2024
• Bill Treacher as Arthur Fowler
• Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchell (II)
• Anna Wing as Lou Beale

Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerdale
Category: Emmerdale

• Frazer Hines (Living) as Joe Sugden
• Clive Hornby as Jack Sugden
• Ronald Magill as Amos Brearley
• Sheila Mercer as Annie Sugden, connected
• Arthur Pentelow as Henry Wilks
• Stan Richards as Seth Armstrong
• Richard Thorpe as Alan Turner
• Paula Tilbrook (wiki) as Betty Eagleton

Brookside

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside_(TV_series)
Category: Brookside

• Marcia Ashton (Living) as Jean Crosbie
• John Burgess as David Crosbie
• Katrin Cartlidge as Lucy Collins
• Bill Dean as Harry Cross
• Vince Earl (LIving) as Ron Dixon
• Louis Emerick (Living) as Mick Johnson
• Sue Johnston (Living) as Sheila Grant
• Bernie Nolan as Diane Murray
• Brian Regan (Living) as Terry Sullivan
• Michael Starke (Living) as Sinbad
• Dean Sullivan as Jimmy Corkhill
• Ricky Tomlinson (Living) as Bobby Grant
• Paul Usher (Living) as Barry Grant

Crossroads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(British_TV_series)
Category: Crossroads

• Ronald Allen as David Hunter
• John Bentley as Hugh Mortimer
• Heather Chasen as Val Pollard
• Ann George as Amy Turtle
• Noele Gordon as Meg Mortimer
• Angus Lennie as Shughie McFee
• Sue Lloyd as Barbara Hunter
• Terence Rigby as Bomber Lancaster
• Jane Rossington (Living) as Jill Chance
• Albert Shepherd as Don Rogers
• Kathy Staff as Doris Luke

Hollyoaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks

• Kristian Ealey as Matt Musgrove (same actor/character in Brookside)

Neighbours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours

• Stewart Adam as Aaron Barkley
• Janet Andrewartha 1951-2024 as Lyn Scully
• MIranda Fryer as Sky Mangel
• Cathy Godbold as Sondra Pike
• Vivean Gray as Mrs Mangel
• Myra de Groot as Eileen Clarke
• Anne Haddy as Helen Daniels

Home & Away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_and_Away

• Dieter Brummer as Shane Parrish
• Ben Unwin as Jesse McGregor
• Jessica Falkholt as Hope Morrison (16 episodes)
• Cornelia Frances as Morag Bellingham
• Johnny Ruffo as Chris Harrington
• Heath Ledger as Scott Irwin (10 episodes)