Sidney Livingstone (born 29th March 1945 in Rochdale) appeared on Coronation Street in three roles:
- Mark Brittain Warehouse storeman Bob Skelton in May 1971
- Roy Thornley, business associate at Sylvia's Separates and seducer of the nineteen-year old Gail Potter, appearing between April and September 1976
- A stone cladding workman in February 1989.
He was an apprentice chef, salesman, plumber's merchant and engineer before he followed his ambition to act and joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1969.
His other credits include roles in Crown Court, Fox, The Squad, Minder, The Baker Street Boys, Johnny Jarvis, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Body in the Library, Casualty, The Bill, Wish Me Luck, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Jeeves and Wooster, Calling the Shots, Into the Fire, Annie's Bar, Midsomer Murders, Holby City, Doctors, Call the Midwife and Peterloo.
On stage, he appeared in productions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Sherlock Holmes, The Bewitched, Babies Grow Old, Afore Night Came, Hamlet, Man is Man, The Blue Angel and Brand for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works include Perkin Warbeck, Black-Eyed Susan, The Baker's Wife, Timon of Athens, Arcadia, Blood Wedding, Oklahoma!, The Jew of Malta, Sitty Pretty, Inherit the Wind, Hindle Wakes and The A-Z of Mrs P.
