John Laing appeared on Coronation Street in June 1988 as the photographer at the wedding of Don Brennan and Ivy Tilsley.
He also appeared in How We Used to Live, Emmerdale Farm, Watching, Bread, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Cloning of Joanna May, The Mixer, 10x10, Love and Reason and Heartbeat.
He is an occasional teacher at the Calderdale Theatre School.