Actor. He was born in Sunderland in 1926, and was a journalist working in Newcastle, Fleet Street and Cairo for the Reuters News Service until he caught the acting bug. He changed his name to Alan Browning, and made his TV debut in the BBC TV series The Newcomers, alongside Pat Phoenix, who he would later marry. He appeared in the 1964 film Guns At Batasi and in 1969 he joined the cast of Coronation Street as garage owner Alan Howard. Being a chronic alcoholic, he died of liver failure at the age of 53 in Stockport. Film credits: Guns At Batasi (1964); Julius Caesar (1970) as Marillus TV credits: The Newcomers (BBC, 1965 - 1968) as Ellis Cooper; The War of Darkie Pilbeam, Coronation Street.
Actor. He was born in Sunderland in 1926, and was a journalist working in Newcastle, Fleet Street and Cairo for the Reuters News Service until he caught the acting bug. He changed his name to Alan Browning, and made his TV debut in the BBC TV series The Newcomers, alongside Pat Phoenix, who he would later marry. He appeared in the 1964 film Guns At Batasi and in 1969 he joined the cast of Coronation Street as garage owner Alan Howard. Being a chronic alcoholic, he died of liver failure at the age of 53 in Stockport. Film credits: Guns At Batasi (1964); Julius Caesar (1970) as Marillus TV credits: The Newcomers (BBC, 1965 - 1968) as Ellis Cooper; The War of Darkie Pilbeam, Coronation Street.
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