Johnny Hammond

Johnny Hammond (died July 2007) appeared in two role in Coronation Street: in October 1981 as a Nightwatchman in a Hartlepool factory that folded when doing business with Baldwin's Casuals and he returned as Tommy Figg, an old friend of Bet Lynch's in March 1985.

His main occupation after service in the Second World War was as comedian and he was a winner of talent show New Faces in 1976. He subsequently appeared for Granada Television in The Comedians as well as The Jim Davidson Show as well as writing material for the latter and Hale and Pace and Roy "Chubby" Brown, and performing several times at the London Palladium and on stage in Las Vegas.