Paul Copley (born 25th November 1944 in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire) appeared on Coronation Street in three roles:
- A photographer in September 1972
- Ivor Priestley, an ex-husband of Angela Hawthorne, appearing between August and December 2007
- Arthur Medwin, a former love interest of Evelyn Plummer, appearing intermittently between March 2020 and January 2021.
Originally a teacher of English and Drama, he joined the in-education department of Leeds Playhouse Theatre.
His other credits include roles in Days of Hope, Trinity Tales, Treasure Island, After Julius, Juliet Bravo, World's End, The Gathering Seed, The Bright Side, The Mistress, Gruey, Grange Hill, The Bill, Heartbeat, Rides, Cracker, A Pinch of Snuff, Roughnecks, Peak Practice, Casualty, This Life, The Lakes, Queer as Folk, The Worst Witch, Relative Strangers, Silent Witness, Holby City, In Deep, Best Friends, Dead Man Weds, Johnny and the Bomb, Torchwood, Doctors, Downton Abbey, White Heat, In with the Flynns, Last Tango in Halifax, Suspects, Tracks, Broken, Trust Me and Emmerdale.
On stage, he appeared in productions of For King and Country, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Other Worlds, Making Noise Quietly, King Lear, Prin, The Servant, When We Are Married, The Contractor, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Breathing Corpses and In Extremis.
