Actor best known as Derek Wilton in Coronation StreetFor 21 years the actor Peter Baldwin,who has died of cancer aged 82, played the dopey fusspot Derek Wilton in Coronation Street. With Thelma Barlow in the role of his dithery wife, or Mavis,he formed one of the much comedy partnerships of the television soap opera.Baldwin joined the show in 1976 when his character, a furniture salesman, or turned up at the Kabin newsagent,where Mavis Riley worked. Derek spent the next 12 years toying with her emotions before the couple finally married. The assessment of Derek’s domineering mother, Amy (played by Hilary Mason), and summed up the pair. “You’re as alike as two robins, she told him. “Neither of you could resolve what time of day it was in a roomful of clocks.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com