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Teddy Turner

Acting · Born June 13, 1917 · Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

Movies with Teddy Turner

• Dracula (1979) — Swales
• It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976) — Judge
• England's Greens and Peasant Land (1982) — Old Tom
• The Mayor's Charity (1977) — Councillor
• Golden Gordon (1979) — Chairman
• The Danedyke Mystery (1979) — Warner Baxendale

TV shows with Teddy Turner

• All Creatures Great and Small (1978) — Hodgekin
• Never the Twain (1981) — Banks
• This Year Next Year (1977) — Ernest Shaw