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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-06-13

Place of Birth

Yorkshire, England, UK

Teddy Turner

Biography

Teddy Turner (June 13, 1917 - August 29, 1992) was a Yorkshire-born English actor and comedian known as dustbin man Chalky Whiteley in the soap opera Coronation Street. He also played the part of the similarly named farmer Bill Whiteley in Emmerdale from 1989 to 1990. Other roles include Mrs. Pumphrey's manservant Hodgekin in All Creatures Great and Small, Gordon in Open All Hours, and Banks in the popular 1980s sitcom Never the Twain. Turner also made occasional appearances in Last of the Summer Wine. He died of emphysema in 1992 at the age of 75.

Known for

Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

Never the Twain

Never the Twain

Simon Peel and Oliver Smallbridge are former business partners turned bitter rival antique dealers whose shops and homes are right next door to each other. Their rivalry stems partly from Oliver having an affair with Simon's wife, but now tensions are escalating as Oliver's daughter, Lyn, has fallen in love with Simon's son, David, and plan to marry.

Strangers

Strangers

Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

Open All Hours

Open All Hours

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

The Sunday Drama

The Sunday Drama

Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

Sounding Brass

Sounding Brass

Drama series about the Ettaswell Brass Band and its musical director H.G. Bestwick.

This Year Next Year

This Year Next Year

Public relations consultant Harry Shaw has to face the challenge of starting afresh in his mid-forties. Disillusioned with the values of city life, he returns to his father's farm in Yorkshire to think over his future.

Dracula

Dracula

In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.

Yanks Go Home

Yanks Go Home

Yanks Go Home is a British sitcom about U.S. Army Air Forcemen stationed in Lancashire, England in the Second World War. It was produced and directed by Eric Prytherch for Granada Television and broadcast on ITV between 1976 and 1977. The series ran for 2 series and 13 episodes in total before its cancellation.

Flickers

Flickers

Arnie Cole and his wife Maud are an odd couple, having entered into the state of matrimony for purely practical reasons. However, their marriage of convenience gives way to genuine partnership as Maud becomes caught up in Arnie's ambitions to start his own film production company.

Coming Home

Coming Home

Donald Maddocks is happy with his disorganised life but his wife, Sheila, is fed up with having to make all the decisions in their marriage.

Brother to the Ox

Brother to the Ox

Life as a farmboy whose father had died. An adaptation of Fred Kitchen's 1940 book.

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.