Richard Shaw (born "Max Shefsky" on 19th November 1920 in Pancras, London; died 11th April 2010 in Croydon) appeared on Coronation Street between March and May 1980 as lorry driver Dan Johnson, and love interest of both Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch.
He enjoyed a long career in film and television going back to the 1940s with very little experience on the stage. The films he appeared in during his first decade in the industry included Black Orchid, The Crooked Sky, Hidden Homicide and First Man into Space.
He first came to prominence in 1959 however, when he played a memorable supporting role as Sladden, an electrician who becomes possessed by extraterrestrial forces in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit. Thereafter, he worked a great deal for the BBC with another seven productions by the legendary Rudolph Cartier, director of the Quatermass serials, as well as series such as Z Cars, Doctor Who, Crossroads, Steptoe and Son, Freewheelers, numerous episodes of Dixon of Dock Green, and, for Granada Television, some of the final episodes of the Biggles series.