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Teddy Turner

Acting Born Jun 13, 1917 Yorkshire, England, UK 17 credits

Biography

Teddy Turner (June 13, 1917 - August 29, 1992) was a Yorkshire-born English actor and comedian known as dustbin man Chalky Whiteley in the soap opera Coronation Street. He also played the part of the similarly named farmer Bill Whiteley in Emmerdale from 1989 to 1990. Other roles include Mrs. Pumphrey's manservant Hodgekin in All Creatures Great and Small, Gordon in Open All Hours, and Banks in the popular 1980s sitcom Never the Twain. Turner also made occasional appearances in Last of the Summer Wine. He died of emphysema in 1992 at the age of 75.

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Known for

Last of the Summer Wine

as Postman
Film

Rififi

as Jess Green

Never the Twain

as Banks

Full filmography

  • Last of the Summer Wine (1973) as Postman
  • All Creatures Great and Small (1978) as Hodgekin
  • Strangers (1978) as Jess Green
  • Never the Twain (1981) as Banks
  • The Sunday Drama (1977) as Head Waiter
  • Open All Hours (1976) as Gordon Stackpool
  • Dracula (1979) as Swales
  • Flickers (1980) as Eddy Marco
  • This Year Next Year (1977) as Ernest Shaw
  • Sounding Brass (1980) as Frank Oldfield
  • Brother to the Ox (1981) as Jack
  • It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976) as Judge
  • Ready When You Are, Mr McGill (1976) as Coach Driver
  • The Mayor's Charity (1977) as Councillor
  • The Danedyke Mystery (1979) as Warner Baxendale
  • Golden Gordon (1979) as Chairman
  • England's Greens and Peasant Land (1982) as Old Tom