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Bryan Mosley OBE (25 August 1931 - 9 February 1999) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, known best as grocer 'Alf Roberts
Alf Roberts

Alfred Sidney "Alf" Roberts was a fictional character in Coronation Street. He ran a grocery shop at number 15 Coronation Street and was heavily involved in local politics, including two spells as mayor of Weatherfield....
' in the long-running ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Coronation Street
Coronation Street

Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
.

in Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, he attended Leeds Central High School and Leeds College of Art. He then did national service in the RAF, working in Air Traffic Control, before training as an actor at the Bradford Civic Theatre and Esme Church Northern Theatre School.

ppeared in Coronation Street in 1961 and 1963, then from 1971 onwards.






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Bryan Mosley OBE (25 August 1931 - 9 February 1999) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, known best as grocer 'Alf Roberts
Alf Roberts

Alfred Sidney "Alf" Roberts was a fictional character in Coronation Street. He ran a grocery shop at number 15 Coronation Street and was heavily involved in local politics, including two spells as mayor of Weatherfield....
' in the long-running ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Coronation Street
Coronation Street

Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
.

Early life

Born in Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, he attended Leeds Central High School and Leeds College of Art. He then did national service in the RAF, working in Air Traffic Control, before training as an actor at the Bradford Civic Theatre and Esme Church Northern Theatre School.

Coronation Street

He appeared in Coronation Street in 1961 and 1963, then from 1971 onwards. His appearances in the soap opera became less frequent following a serious heart attack in 1991 and he died just weeks after his character was permanently written out of the series in 1999.

Other notable roles

Mosley made his screen debut in A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving (film)

A Kind of Loving is a 1962 United Kingdom film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in 1960s Lancashire....
 (1962). He also appeared in Get Carter
Get Carter

Get Carter is a 1971 in film crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a mobster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother in a series of unrelenting and brutal killings played out against the grim background of derelict urban housing in the northern English city of Newcastle upon Tyne....
 (1971) playing local gangster Cliff Brumby. He is famously killed by Jack Carter (Michael Caine
Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
) who beats him up and throws him from the roof of the infamous multi-storey car park
Multi-storey car park

A multi-storey car park or a parking garage is a building which is designed specifically to be for automobile parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place....
, Trinity Square, in Gateshead
Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne, England, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Gateshead town centre and Newcastle city centre are very close to one another, and together they form the urban core of Tyneside....
, after discovering Brumby's involvement in his brother's death. He also starred in two stories in the series Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 in 1965 and 1966 and made two appearances in The Avengers
The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s United Kingdom. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman....
. Mosley also had a small role as the pub landlord in Queenie's Castle
Queenie's Castle

File:Queenie's Castle.jpgQueenie's Castle was a United Kingdom sitcom set in early 70's Leeds, West Yorkshire that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972....
.

Fight arranger

He was also a fencer and a stage and film fight arranger. He fenced with Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp

Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise....
 in the film Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)

Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 in film feature film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy....
. He was also a founder member of the Society of British Fight Directors and he arranged the Get Carter fight with Caine.

Bryan Mosley was sometimes credited as Buddy Windrush.

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