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Corrie star Peter Armitage has died at the age of 78
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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 143403" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>Bill Webster was a lovely <em>Coronation Street</em> character, one who fell more into the "real" rather than "larger than life" category. The comparison with Len Fairclough is a good one, in that he was just always effortlessly believable as a normal bloke. And normality has become a rarer, more cherished quality now that soaps, in general, have become more extreme. I've also got two personal, if quite minor, memories of Peter Armitage. I remember seeing him one night in 1999 in Jimmy McGovern's powerful film <em>Dockers</em> on Channel 4:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]DgYkLWsEPZk[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>The very next day I was on the way to a job interview when I passed him in the street. I wanted to tell him how good he'd been the night before, but I was too chicken. The job interview turned out to be life-changing and so I've always sort of associated him with that.</p><p></p><p>Then years later, I ended up sharing a dressing room with him on <em>Doctors</em>. He was very chatty -- in fact, I couldn't get a word in. I did manage to say how much I'd liked him with Tyrone's Molly's Aunty Pam on <em>Corrie</em> and he said she'd been his favourite love interest on the show. I've just read that that <em>Doctors </em>episode was his last ever TV job so I feel even more fortunate for having run into him then.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bViZUVajspo/SuTi0e6pKGI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/a1XGhaNGV2E/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/PamBill.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><em>"Armitage was an actor I always liked, because he possessed a credible authenticity in the many working class roles he played. He never struck you as someone who seemed to be acting, you genuinely believed he could be the person he was playing"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><a href="http://randomramblingsthoughtsandfiction.blogspot.com/2018/12/rip-peter-armitage.html" target="_blank">http://randomramblingsthoughtsandfiction.blogspot.com/2018/12/rip-peter-armitage.html</a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 143403, member: 22"] Bill Webster was a lovely [I]Coronation Street[/I] character, one who fell more into the "real" rather than "larger than life" category. The comparison with Len Fairclough is a good one, in that he was just always effortlessly believable as a normal bloke. And normality has become a rarer, more cherished quality now that soaps, in general, have become more extreme. I've also got two personal, if quite minor, memories of Peter Armitage. I remember seeing him one night in 1999 in Jimmy McGovern's powerful film [I]Dockers[/I] on Channel 4: [MEDIA=youtube]DgYkLWsEPZk[/MEDIA] The very next day I was on the way to a job interview when I passed him in the street. I wanted to tell him how good he'd been the night before, but I was too chicken. The job interview turned out to be life-changing and so I've always sort of associated him with that. Then years later, I ended up sharing a dressing room with him on [I]Doctors[/I]. He was very chatty -- in fact, I couldn't get a word in. I did manage to say how much I'd liked him with Tyrone's Molly's Aunty Pam on [I]Corrie[/I] and he said she'd been his favourite love interest on the show. I've just read that that [I]Doctors [/I]episode was his last ever TV job so I feel even more fortunate for having run into him then. [IMG]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bViZUVajspo/SuTi0e6pKGI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/a1XGhaNGV2E/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/PamBill.jpg[/IMG] [I]"Armitage was an actor I always liked, because he possessed a credible authenticity in the many working class roles he played. He never struck you as someone who seemed to be acting, you genuinely believed he could be the person he was playing" [URL]http://randomramblingsthoughtsandfiction.blogspot.com/2018/12/rip-peter-armitage.html[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]
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