Alan Thompson

Alan Thompson appeared in Coronation Street in September 1976 as Mr Smedley who was concerned that his daughter, Cheryl was attending a children's group at the Community Centre run by career criminal Eddie Yeats.

An actor since the 1950s, he has also appeared in No Hiding Place, The Marriage Lines, Adam Adamant Lives!, I, Claudius, The Sandbaggers, The Other 'Arf, Smuggler, Enemies of the State, The Nation's Health, Angels, Minder, Miracles Take Longer, Screen Two, Howards' Way, Bergerac, The Bill, Jonathan Creek, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Life Begins, Doctors and EastEnders.

He appeared in films in Dance With a Stranger, Girl from the South and Jen.

Stage roles include Rookery Nook.

Radio work include Children's Hour, The Long-Distance Piano-Player, The Imposters, Afternoon Theatre, The Afternoon Play, Saturday-Night Theatre, Father Brown Stories, The Gold of the Conqueror, XPD, The Day of Reckoning, The Fosdyke Saga, After Henry, The Monk, Thirty-Minute Theatre, The Betrothed, The Last Days of Socrates, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Old Law, Mr Finchley Takes the Road and The Oldest Member.

External pages

 * Internet Movie Database entry for Alan Thompson