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Terence Longdon (born "Hubert Tully Longdon" on 14th May 1922 in Newark, Nottinghamshire; died 23rd April 2011 in Oxford) appeared on Coronation Street intermittently between December 1981 and March 1982 as Wilf Stockwell, a wholesale buyer of Baldwin's Casuals goods and love interest of Elsie Tanner.

He graduated from RADA in 1948 and made his stage debut in Sheffield, soon moving to the West End and then the Shakespeare Memorial Company at Stratford-on-Avon. His long list of stage credits included productions of Medea, Treasure Hunt, As You Like It, The Sound of Murder, Golden Rivet and a run for several years in The Secretary Bird.

On film, he played a straight part in four of the earlier Carry on... series and appeared as Drusus in the 1959 multi-Oscar winning epic Ben Hur. That same year he began a four-year run of Biggles-type adventures in the BBC Saturday series Garry Halliday and also appeared in Danger Man, Emergency-Ward 10, No Hiding Place, Redcap, The Avengers and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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