WE’RE OUT OF SOAP!
NOSEY Norris kept watch on the antics of his Coronation Street neighbours for 27 years and they will be raising a glass or two to his memory at the Rover’s Return.
His soap exit was made quietly off-screen this week with Ken Barlow, Rita and Mary arriving at the hospital only to be told he had passed away half an hour earlier.
Actor Malcolm Hebden, who played Norris Cole, is now 81 and suffered a heart attack in 2017. He briefly returned to Corrie a few years later and his character was last seen enjoying life at Stillwaters retirement complex.
Malcolm has notched up more than 1,600 episodes of Coronation Street but first played another role on the soap before landing the iconic role of Kabin owner Norris. He first appeared on the cobbles in 1974 as Carlos, the Spanish boyfriend of Thelma Barlow’s Mavis Riley.
Brookside’s Beth Jordache, played by Anna Friel, also died in hospital when she made a sudden exit from the Channel 4 soap in 1995. She passed away from a prewith mum Mandy existing heart condition just hours before she was due to appear in court to appeal her conviction for murdering her abusive dad Trevor Jordache.
One of Coronation Street’s most memorable deaths was when the villain Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) met his maker in 1989 after being run over by a Blackpool tram, while chasing his ex-partner Rita Fairclough (Barbara Knox). Mark was later invited to unveil a plaque at the seaside resort at the tram stop where the scene was filmed because so many fans wanted to visit the scene of his demise.
Mark, who passed away in Janu
Malcolm Hebden played Norris for nearly
Jean Alexander ary at the age of 92, once said: “I was only allowed to film Alan’s last moments running away as they insisted on a double for the scene under the tram wheels. I gather 26 million viewers watched those final moments.”
Queen Vic landlady Angie Watts (Anita Dobson) was last seen in Albert Square in 1988, but her off-screen death was only announced 14 years later in 2002. It was said the Eastenders favourite had drunk herself to death and died from cirrhosis of the liver.
When Janine Butcher pushed Barry Evans (Shaun Williamson) off a cliff in Eastenders, it really was a cliff-hanger. He fell to his death on New Year’s Day 2004 while they were on honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands. Janine plotted to marry Barry for his money after he told her he was terminally ill. However, in a twist of fate, Barry learned he was not dying after all and shared the news with a horrified Janine. The result was RIP Barry. He banged his head on a rock after falling and the scheming gold-digger took a seat and waited for him to die.
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Frank Tate watches the devastation as a plane falls on Emmerdale
Barry the push in Eastenders
Read all about it. Jonathan Pryce played baddie media mogul Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies. Carver insisted: “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Robert Shaw, right, played a SPECTRE assassin who nearly got the better of Sean Connery’s Bond in a fight on board the Orient Express in From Russia With Love. The Bolton-born actor went on to play Quint in Jaws.
Scottish actor Robert Carlyle turned up to cause trouble for Pierce Brosnan as villain Renard in The World Is Not Enough. Renard taunted Bond saying “You can’t kill me, I’m already dead.”
Enjoy the view. Christopher Walken played villain Max Zorin in the James Bond movie A View To A Kill opposite Sir Roger Moore’s 007. He once said: “I don’t need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.”
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