28 Facts About Bryan Mosley

Bryan Mosley was a British actor, best known for his role as grocer Alf Roberts in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

Bryan Mosley attended Leeds Central High School and made his stage debut, aged 10, as the back end of a cow in the pantomime Cinderella.

Bryan Mosley modelled for clothes catalogues and held a childhood ambition to become a missionary.

Bryan Mosley worked in a bookshop, as a drama teacher and sold encyclopaedias door-to-door.

In 1952, after national service in the RAF, working in air traffic control just outside Newcastle and in Scotland, Bryan Mosley trained as an actor at the Bradford Civic Theatre and Esme Church's Northern Theatre School.

Bryan Mosley then toured with the New Pilgrim Players, playing in churches, abbeys, pubs and prisons, before working in repertory theatre in York, Perth, Derby and Harrogate.

Bryan Mosley joined the cast of Coronation Street in February 1961, and made recurrent appearances until 1963, as Post Office worker Alfred "Alf" Roberts, a colleague of Frank Barlow.

Bryan Mosley returned to the series briefly in 1967, before re-joining as a regular cast member in 1971.

Bryan Mosley's character was married three times: initially to Phyllis Plant, who did not appear onscreen; secondly to Renee Bradshaw ; and latterly to Audrey Roberts, from 1985 onwards.

Bryan Mosley received a standing ovation from the cast on set.

Bryan Mosley recorded his final scenes on 4 December 1998, and died just over nine weeks later from a heart attack.

Bryan Mosley made his screen debut in the film A Kind of Loving.

Bryan Mosley appeared in Get Carter playing local gangster Cliff Brumby.

Bryan Mosley is famously killed by Jack Carter, who beats him up and throws him from the roof of the Trinity Square multi-storey car park in Gateshead, after discovering Brumby's involvement in his brother's death.

Bryan Mosley played alien dignitary Malpha and a Prop Man on a film set in the Doctor Who serial The Daleks' Master Plan in 1965 and made two appearances in The Avengers.

Bryan Mosley had small roles in Z Cars, Crossroads, A Family at War and as the pub landlord in Queenie's Castle.

Bryan Mosley was joined by the cast of Coronation Street.

Bryan Mosley fenced with Terence Stamp in the film Far from the Madding Crowd, and taught fencing in schools around Leeds.

Bryan Mosley was a founder member of the Society of British Fight Directors, intended to regulate fighting on stage and screen, and he arranged the Get Carter fight with Caine.

Bryan Mosley endowed a fencing award at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Bryan Mosley married schoolteacher and childhood sweetheart Norma Bowes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on 25 July 1956.

Bryan Mosley was a practising Roman Catholic who had made at least one pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Bryan Mosley was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Bradford.

Bryan Mosley was a keen painter and trained at the Leeds College of Art.

Bryan Mosley was an honorary member of the British Watercolours Society, Ilkley, where he regularly exhibited his work.

On 9 February 1999, Bryan Mosley collapsed in the street outside the Market Hall, Westgate, near his home in Shipley.

Bryan Mosley's wife was by his side and he was immediately taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary, but died on arrival from a heart attack, aged 67.

Bryan Mosley's funeral took place a week later, on 16 February 1999, at St Mary and St Walburga Church, Shipley, attended by relatives and close friends, including Eileen Derbyshire.