Actor best known as Derek Wilton in Coronation StreetFor 21 years the actor Peter Baldwin, who has died of cancer aged 82, played the dopey fusspot Derek Wilton in Coronation Street. With Thelma Barlow in the role of his dithery wife, Mavis, he formed one of the great comedy partnerships of the television soap opera.Baldwin joined the show in 1976 when his character, a furniture salesman, turned up at the Kabin newsa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:21PM on October 25, 2015