1977
Search results
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 . Early life.
John Comer was born on 1 March 1924 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Last of the Summer Wine (1973), The Family Way (1966) and Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (1977). He died on 11 February 1984 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
- January 1, 1
- Manchester, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
THE family of the late John Comer – who played cafe-owner Sid in the long-running BBC series Last of the Summer Wine – is to donate £245,000 to a cancer hospice.
John Comer was born on March 1, 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 February 11, 1984 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
- March 1, 1924
- February 11, 1984
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.
John Comer was born on 8 December 1960 in Galway, Ireland. He is an actor, known for EuroTrip (2004), Man on a Ledge (2012) and Pride and Glory (2008).
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.
