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John Comer (1 March 1924 – 11 February 1984) was a British comic actor. He was best known for his roles in Coronation Street as Mr Birtles, then as a taxi driver, and later as Wilf Jones, in Emmerdale Farm as Ernie Shuttleworth, Les Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared, and cafe owner Sid in Last of the Summer Wine .
John Comer was born on 1 March 1924 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Last of the Summer Wine (1973), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and The Family Way (1966). He died on 11 February 1984 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
- January 1, 1
- Manchester, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
John Comer, who played Sid in the BBC comedy series, died of throat cancer in 1983 and his family recently donated £245,000 to the Trinity Hospice in Blackpool. He was also part of a comedy double act with his brother Tony and starred in the film A Taste of Honey.
John Comer was a British actor who appeared in Last of the Summer Wine, Emmerdale Farm and The Family Way. He was born in Manchester in 1924 and died in Blackpool in 1984.
- March 1, 1924
- February 11, 1984
John Comer (died 1984) was a British comic actor. He starred in the television series I Didn't Know You Cared, Last of the Summer Wine and All Our Saturdays. Born and brought up in Stretford, Lancashire, Comer gained an engineering apprenticeship at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park.
For John Comer's last ever appearance, in the 1983 feature-length Christmas special, "Getting Sam Home", illness caused by cancer affected his speech, and so his lines were dubbed over by another actor, Tony Melody. Comer died two months later in February 1984.
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