Colin Prockter

Colin Prockter (born 4th June, 1946) is an actor and TV writer who has played four minor roles in Coronation Street: Solicitor John Halpern in September 1992 and January 1993; Newton & Ridley relief manager Rodney Bostock in 1995; butcher Eddie Maddocks in 2005 and finally in July 2008 he played Adrian Clarkson, an old university friend of Ken Barlow.

Other TV and film credits spanning six decades include Z Cars, A Family at War, Budgie, New Scotland Yard, Ransom, The Sweeney, Play for Today, Dempsey and Makepiece, Minder, The Famous Five, Grange Hill, Kavanagh QC, Trial & Retribution, Casualty, My Family, Afterlife, The Bill, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Doctors, Heartbeat, Rock & Chips, Doctor Who, Toast and Mount Pleasant.

Prockter also co-wrote TV series Luna in the mid-1980s alongside Colin Bennett.