Claude Close

Claude Close (16th August 1956 - 7th October 2011) appeared in Coronation Street in two roles: between October and November 1990 as Welsh tenor Tudor Parry-Jones who went on the books as one of Alec Gilroy's acts, and between August and September 2003 as Preston King, a customer of Mike Baldwin's.

A former environmental health inspector, he trained at the Manchester Polytechnic school of theatre and also appeared in Happy Families, All Creatures Great and Small, Dramarama, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Screen Two, Kavanagh QC, The Bill, Dalziel and Pascoe, Children's Ward, Cold Feet, At Home with the Braithwaites, Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere, ChuckleVision, Heartbeat and Sirens.

Stage roles include The White Devil, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Animal Farm, A Christmas Carol, A Ton of Jollity, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Crazy People, Dr Faustus and Richard III.

Radio work includes Madame Bovary, Can't Catch Me, Deadly Echo, Into The Dark, The Good Shepherd, I Should Be So Lucky, Chaos by Design, Brimstone, Stake Out, The Red Balloon and Heart - Attack.

External pages

 * Internet Movie Database entry for Claude Close
 * Theatricalia entry for Claude Close