Tony Broughton

Actor Tony Broughton has played four roles in Coronation Street: in April 1993 as Les Curry, a fellow retail trader of Alf Roberts who suffered a heart attack in the Corner Shop; in March and May 1996 as a Court Clerk at the respective trials of Jim McDonald and later Steve and Vicky McDonald; in January 2003 as the Vicar at the funeral of Maxine Peacock and in November 2008 as Neville, a taxi fare of John Stape's who was a witness to the end of his kidnapping of Rosie Webster.

He has also appeared in G.B.H., The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, The Grand, Emmerdale and Unforgiven.

He is the son of Coronation Street original and much-loved cast member Arthur Leslie who played Rovers landlord Jack Walker for the first ten year's of the programme's transmission and it was Tony who had the sad duty of telephoning producer June Howson on the morning of Tuesday 30th June 1970 to inform her of his father's sudden death from a heart attack earlier that day.