Andy Merchant has been a stuntman on 58 episodes of Coronation Street since October 2016, the initial 4 of them as a stunt double and the remainder since then as a stunt co-ordinator.
A former member of the British judo team, he has performed similar roles on The Way We Live Now, The Long Firm, Monarch of the Glen, Fat Friends, See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Spooks, Vincent, The Marchioness Disaster, Shameless, Scott & Bailey, Merlin, Doctors, Utopia, Whitechapel, Game of Thrones, Da Vinci's Demons, Downton Abbey, Citizen Khan, Happy Valley, Sherlock, No Offence, Doctor Who, Girlfriends, Benidorm, The Innocents, Ackley Bridge, Victoria, Last Tango in Halifax, We Hunt Together and All Creatures Great and Small.
His long list of film work includes Beautiful Creatures, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Phantom of the Opera, Casino Royale, Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum, Mamma Mia!, The Boat That Rocked, Clash of the Titans, Warhorse, The Dark Knight Rises, Maleficent, Legend, Pan, The Legend of Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast and Wonder Woman.
Episodes with stunts by Andy Merchant[]
2010s[]
2016 (2 episodes)
- Episode 9017 (21st October 2016) (Stunt double)
- Episode 9018 (21st October 2016) (Stunt double)
2018 (5 episodes)
- Episode 9346 (5th January 2018) (Stunt double)
- Episode 9418 (30th March 2018) (Stunt double)
- Episode 9494 (29th June 2018) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9495 (29th June 2018) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9622 (26th November 2018) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2019 (5 episodes)
- Episode 9839 (5th August 2019) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9854 (21st August 2019) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9881 (23rd September 2019) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9901 (21st October 2019) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 9902 (21st October 2019) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2020s[]
2020 (3 episodes)
- Episode 10002 (10th February 2020) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10190 (9th December 2020) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10191 (11th December 2020) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2021 (1 episode)
- Episode 10416 (30th August 2021) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2022 (14 episodes)
- Episode 10552 (1st February 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10579 (6th March 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10582 (9th March 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10626 (29th April 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10671/2 (22nd June 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10701 (27th July 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10727 (26th August 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10730 (29th August 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10732 (31st August 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10751 (23rd September 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10777 (24th October 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10812 (30th November 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10824 (16th December 2022) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2023 (18 episodes)
- Episode 10857 (20th January 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10861 (25th January 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10871 (6th February 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10880 (17th February 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10912 (27th March 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10929 (14th April 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10936 (24th April 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 10979 (14th June 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11006 (14th July 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11007 (17th July 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11009 (19th July 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11055 (11th September 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11079 (9th October 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11081 (11th October 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11084 (13th October 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11119 (24th November 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11125 (1st December 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11138 (15th December 2023) (Stunt co-ordinator)
2024 (10 episodes)
- Episode 11174/5 (24th January 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11184 (11th February 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11222/3 (25th March 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11246 (22nd April 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11266/7 (15th May 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11269 (17th May 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)
- Episode 11274 (24th May 2024) (Stunt co-ordinator)