| birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[Irish Free State|Ireland]] | nationality = Irish

{{Short description|Northern Irish actor (1925–2009)}} ...in Russia|Russian-Jewish]] father and an [[History of the Jews in Ireland|Irish-Jewish]] mother; he once claimed he was the only [[Jews|Jew]] ever born in

...erviceman [[Percy Sugden]] in [[Granada Television]]'s long-running [[soap opera]] ''[[Coronation Street]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Hayward|first=A ...16 September 2000|title=Cantankerous pensioner in 'Coronation Street'|work=Irish Times}}</ref>

...play ''Cosmos the Mystic Dog''. In 2004, he made an appearance in the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' for sixteen episodes, playing [[Wilfred Atkins]], a conm ...eb.archive.org/web/20121006043441/http://www.promonews.tv/2012/01/04/clock-opera-once-and-for-all-by-ben-strebel/ |date=6 October 2012 }}, ''Promo News'', 4

...7|access-date=26 September 2017}}</ref> His mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and his father was a merchant seaman during [[World War II]] and C ...1986, Booth appeared as pub landlord Ted Pilkington in the short-lived ITV soap ''[[Albion Market]]''.<ref name="Shameless"/> He starred in the 1998 short

...television presenter. He played the role of [[Frank Butcher]] in the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' and hosted the children's game show ''[[Runaround (UK ga ...y of [[Northern England|Northern English]] and [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irish]] comedians, Reid stood out. As a comedian, Reid's well-known catchphrases

...cers.<ref name="telegraph"/> His first television role was in the BBC soap opera ''The Newcomers'' in 1967. Another early television role, also in 1967 was ...from Only Fools musical: John Challis told me to carry the torch |website=Irish Independent |quote=Jeff Nicholson met Challis, who died from cancer on Sund

...grown up in [[British India]], played Kevin O'Grady, a half-Pakistani half-Irish man who comes to work in a British factory and ends up boarding with his in [[Category:British male comedy actors]]

...r soap opera as a rival to ''[[Coronation Street]]''. ''[[Crossroads (soap opera)|Crossroads]]'', much derided but ultimately a serious challenge to Granada ..., 25 November 1966, p. 12</ref> While many of Grade's series used American actors in lead roles (''[[The Baron (TV series)|The Baron]]'' and ''[[Man in a Sui

...eila]] and [[Bobby Grant (Brookside)|Bobby Grant]], in [[Liverpool]]-based soap ''[[Brookside (television programme)|Brookside]]''. ...s next door to the Royles with her husband Joe and daughter Cheryl. She is Irish, and is portrayed as a talkative busybody (in direct contrast to her husban