Peter Hill

Peter Hill was born on 9th March 1932 in London and died on 29th December 1995.

He first started acting on television in the 1960s and one of his first credited roles was as Doctor Harris in a November 1968 episode of Coronation Street. He returned to the series in November 1976 as Sergeant Cottam who investigated the disappearance of Stan Ogden went he went missing (having walked out on Hilda when he was sick of her nagging).

In the same year he became a regular in the period serial The Cedar Tree but had also made a few appearances in Crossroads as Arthur Brownlow. He returned to that series as a regular in the part in 1979 and it is for this role that he is best remembered today, even though he only played the character until 1982.

He also appeared in many other television series including Doctor Who, Target and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.