Teddy Turner
June 13, 1917 (107 years old) in Yorkshire, England, UK
Teddy Turner was a Yorkshire-born English actor and comedian who played dustbin man Chalky Whiteley in the soap opera Coronation Street. He also played the part of the similarly named farmer Bill Whiteley in Emmerdale from 1989 to 1990. In the late 1970s (and all the way up to the final series in 1990) he played the part of Mrs. Pumphrey's manservant Hodgekin in All Creatures Great and Small, Gordon in Open All Hours and subsequently the part of Banks in the popular 1980s sitcom Never the Twain. He also made occasional appearances in Last of the Summer Wine. He died of emphysema in 1992 at the age of 75.
Known For
Credits
- 1982 · England's Greens and Peasant Land as Old Tom
- 1981 · Never the Twain as Banks
- 1980 · Flickers as Eddy Marco
- 1979 · Golden Gordon as Chairman
- 1979 · Dracula as Swales
- 1979 · The Danedyke Mystery as Warner Baxendale
- 1978 · All Creatures Great and Small as Hodgekin
- 1977 · The Mayor's Charity as Councillor
- 1977 · This Year Next Year as Ernest Shaw
- 1976 · It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet as Judge
- 1976 · Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Coach Driver
- 1973 · Last of the Summer Wine as Postman
- 1973 · Last of the Summer Wine as Edgar