Simeon Lindsey Andrews (born 1956 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire; died 27th February 2018 in Oxfordshire) appeared on Coronation Street in August 1995 as Father Donnelly, the priest from a religious retreat who broke the news of the death of Ivy Brennan.
He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
His credits included roles in Into the Labyrinth, Bird of Prey, Danger: Marmalade at Work, The Bill, My Husband and I, Brass, EastEnders, A Certain Justice, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Inspector Morse, Casualty, Ultimate Force and Cast Me.
On stage, he appeared in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Great White Hope, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Beaux' Stratagem for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works included Guys and Dolls, The Devils, Very Tragical Mirth, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Habeas Corpus, Anna Karenina, The Danube, Mill on the Floss and War and Peace.
As a political activist on the left-wing, he was the secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, a group campaigning for a return to more socialist values in the Labour movement and a parliamentary consultant to a number of trade unions and the press officer and organiser of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.