Oliver Beamish appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly appearing intermittently between September 1992 and March 2011 as Newton & Ridley manager/director, Richard Willmore; and he returned to the programme in September 2003 as Sgt Wilkinson, who questioned and detained Eileen Grimshaw on suspicion of theft.
He trained at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.
His other credits include roles in Poirot, The Darling Buds of May, Stay Lucky, Emmerdale and The Royal.
On stage, he appeared in productions of The Night They Raided Minskys, Blood Brothers, Twelfth Night, Fuenta Ovejuna, Ghetto, Blue Murder, Round the Horne... Revisited, The Hypochondriac, 'Allo 'Allo, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd and Billy Bishop Goes to War.
