Jack Kirkbride was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who played Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1972 to 2014.
10 Facts About Jack Kirkbride
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Jack Kirkbride served from 1942 as a transport driver with the Royal Army Service Corps.
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Jack Kirkbride fought in the Normandy Campaign in 1944 and was demobbed in 1946.
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Jack Kirkbride sold his first cartoon to a national paper in 1953 and later sold to most national papers and magazines, including Punch and The Oldie.
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Jack Kirkbride's work appeared in the German press under the name of Jacki.
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Jack Kirkbride became the Oldham Evening Chronicle's regular cartoonist in 1958 and went full-time in the 1970s.
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Jack Kirkbride was a founder member of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain and his work was published across Europe.
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Jack Kirkbride won first prize at the Waddington's International Cartoon Festival.
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Jack Kirkbride's hobbies included listening to classical music, renovating his 18th century farmhouse on the edge of Saddleworth Moor and playing the pianola.
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Jack Kirkbride died of an aneurysm at his home in Oldham, at the age of 83.