Former Coronation Street actor Geoff Hinsliff dies at 87

Actor who played dastardly Don Brennan in ITV soap is remembered by family as ‘restless, adventurous and funny’

Geoff Hinsliff, the former Coronation Street star, has died aged 87 after a short illness.

Hinsliff, who also had minor roles in the films O Lucky Man and I, Claudius and played a wireless operator in Richard Attenborough’s epic A Bridge Too Far, won the role of Don Brennan on the soap after previously appearing in one episode a decade earlier, in 1977, as a minor character named Eric Baile.