Raymond Young

Actor Raymond Young was born on 16th June 1918 in London. He had a long and successful career in film and television from the 1940s to the 1990s in productions such as The Silent Enemy and Drop Dead Darling while on the small screen many major drama series of the 1950s onwards used his talents including Danger Man, Department S and The Persuaders.

He appeared in Coronation Street in July 1965 as Mr Pepper, the owner of Pepper's Salon where Dennis Tanner had a job interview. In the same year he appeared in a first season episode of the spin-off Pardon the Expression as stand-in manager Mr Hammond and in the second season of the same series as Board of Trade representative Mr Bowman-Wallis.