Creator / Kenneth Cope

Kenneth Cope, (14 April 1931), is a British actor best known for his roles in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Coronation Street and Brookside.

Early in his career he was a character actor until he landed the role of Jed Stone in Coronation Street, which helped boost attention to him. Around the same time he was a regular on That Was the Week That Was.

At the end of The '60s he starred in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Marty Hopkirk. He also played major roles in two of the Carry On movies: Carry On at Your Convenience as the disagreeable shop steward Vic Spanner and in Carry On Matron as unwilling crook Cyril Carter.

In 2008, he returned to Coronation Street for the first time in 42 years. This was his final acting job.

Cope now lives in Southport, and writes for a weekly newspaper.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• X the Unknown (1956) — Private Sapper Lansing
• Dunkirk (1958) — Lieutenant Lumpkin
• These Are the Damned (1962) — Sid
• Genghis Khan (1965) — Subodai
• Night of the Big Heat (1967) — Tinker Mason
• Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) — Vic Spanner
• Carry On Matron (1972) — Cyril Carter

Series

• Dixon of Dock Green, 6 episodes:
  • "The Roaring Boy" (1956) — Doug Beale
  • "They Don't Like Policemen" (1958) — Barney Dugan
  • "George Takes Whisky" (1958) — Ned
  • "A Flask of Black Coffee" (1959) — Banks
  • "Christmas Eve at the Nick" (1960) — Ron Sharp
  • "Jackpot" (1976) — Harold Tovey
• The Adventures of Robin Hood, 3 episodes:
  • "An Apple for the Archer" (1957) — Timothy Cox
  • "The Mark" (1957) — Diccon
  • "Elixir of Youth" (1958) — Alwyn the Squire
• Ivanhoe, episode "The Escape" (1958) — Warren
• Coronation Street, 113 episodes (1961-2009) — Jed Stone
• One Step Beyond, episode "The Villa" (1961) — Lionel
• That Was the Week That Was, 37 episodes (1962-63) — As Himself
• Z Cars, 3 episodes:
  • "The Share Out" (1965) — Richie
  • 2 episodes^{show list} "The Great Art Robbery: Part 1", "The Great Art Robbery: Part 2" (1967) — Frankie Hancock
• The Avengers, 2 episodes:
  • "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" (1967) — Tom Savage
  • "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" (1968) — Gardiner
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), 26 episodes (1969-70) — Marty Hopkirk
• Minder, 3 episodes:
  • "Bury My Half at Waltham Green" (1979) — Albert Stubbs
  • "Waiting for Goddard" (1985) — Scooter
  • "Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley" (1994) — Phelan
• Play for Today, episode "The Vanishing Army" (1980) — Drill Sergeant
• Doctor Who, 4-episode story "Warriors' Gate" (1981) — Packard
• Miss Marple, 2 episodes^{show list} "Sleeping Murder Part 1", "Sleeping Murder Part 2" (1987) — Jackie Afflick
• Rumpole of the Bailey, episode "Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow" (1987) — Norman
• CASUAL+Y, 2 episodes:
  • "Desperate Odds" (1988) — Archie Higgs
  • "Value for Money" (1994) — Les Hocknall
• Bergerac, episode "Natural Enemies" (1989) — Ted Swinton
• Uncle Jack, episode "Oil" (1990) — Colonel
• The Bill, 3 episodes:
  • "It's a Small World" (1992) — Police Constable Derton
  • 2 episodes^{show list} "Sequence of Events - Part 1", "Sequence of Events - Part 2" (2006) — Jimmy Hastings
• Lovejoy, episode "Somewhere - Over the Rainbow?" (1994) — John Ikin
• A Touch of Frost, episode "True Confessions" (1997) — Charlie Fairclough
• Goodnight Sweetheart, episode "The Leaving of Liverpool" (1997) — Landlord
• Last of the Summer Wine, 2 episodes^{show list} "The Love Mobile", "All That Glitters Is Not Elvis" (1997-2008) — Lance
• Brookside, 21 episodes (1999-2002) — Ray Hilton
• Waking the Dead, 2 episodes^{show list} "Shadowplay: Part 1", "Shadowplay: Part 2" (2004) — Neville Harding
• Doctors, 2 episodes:
  • "Too Darn Hot" (2004) — Brian Holland
  • "Invisible Touch" (2007) — Frank Leakey
• Hustle, episode "Getting Even" (2007) — Colin

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