Paul Seed began off on Coronation Street within the 70s and 80s earlier than turning into a famend director of British TV dramas.
Former Coronation Street star Paul Seed has died aged 78
A former Coronation Street star and TV director behind a few of Britain’s best-known dramas has died, it has been revealed.
Paul Seed started his profession as an actor within the Nineteen Seventies enjoying the position of Father Harris in Corrie, showing between 1979 and 1981. During his time on the cleaning soap he officiated the wedding of Helen Worth‘s character Gail and Christopher Quinten‘s Brian.
The character additionally oversaw the christening of their son Nick Tilsley on the fictional St. Boniface Church in Lower Broughton, the real-life suburb of Salford that was used for a few years for the opening titles.
The Guardian reviews that Devon-born Paul died of most cancers aged 78 on 7 March and is survived by his spouse Elizabeth Cassidy, who he met whereas engaged on the BBC police drama Z Cars, and their two sons, Jack and Sean.
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Paul left performing within the Eighties after finishing the BBC’s administrators’ course and went on to form among the largest exhibits on TV from behind the digicam. He turned a massively profitable director of dramas, together with the BBC political thriller House of Cards and ITV’s A Touch of Frost and Doc Martin.
His obituary remembers that not lengthy after graduating he was supplied his first telly drama, 1982’s Too Late to Talk to Billy, which marked Kenneth Branagh’s first look on TV. He additionally directed a younger Liam Neeson the next 12 months in Across the Water.
He went on to win two BAFTAs, one for Best Single Drama for A Rather English Marriage and one other for Best Drama for the 2010 collection of Just William whereas aired on BBC One, starring Outnumbered actor Daniel Roche as William and Rebecca Front as his mum.
Paul’s different performing roles included appearances in Doctor Who, Pretenders and Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected, whereas his directing credit additionally embody Auf Widersehen, Pet, Lark Rise to Candleford and New Tricks.
He additionally appeared within the Victoria Wood TV play Nearly a Happy Ending in 1980, showing alongside the comic and common co-star Julie Walters within the present, set throughout a “dismal salesmen’s party” in a lodge in Manchester.
On stage, he appeared in productions of The Merchant of Venice, The Birthday Party, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet, amongst others.
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