Stuart Golland (born "John Stuart Golland" on 3rd August 1945 in Sheffield, died 11th September 2003 in Leeds) appeared on Coronation Street in three roles:
- A drunken punter at the Pink Flamingo nightclub, who tried to chat up Ivy Tilsley during a night out in September 1987
- Weatherfield Gazette editor Ted Lucas, appearing between January and April 1990
- Allotment owner Ernie Wagstaff, who appeared intermittently between August 2001 and June 2003.
His previous employments were as a plasterer and bar manager in the Isle of Man and Sheffield where he was bitten by the acting bug when managing a bar near the city's famous Crucible Theatre. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
He was best known to viewers for his role of George Ward in Heartbeat, a part he played between 1992 and 1996, and in a regular role in the 1991 series Waterfront Beat although his other credits included roles in All Creatures Great and Small, Last of the Summer Wine, First Among Equals, Emmerdale Farm, The Return of the Antelope, The New Statesman, The Darling Buds of May, In Suspicious Circumstances, Rumpole of the Bailey, Stay Lucky and Heartbeat, along with the 1981 film Looks and Smiles.
On stage, he appeared in productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling and I Have Been Here Before, toured in his own play Scrap and regularly appeared as W.C. Fields.
