Wyllie Longmore

After graduation Longmore joined the Leeds Theatre-in-Education Company, and through this met theatre director David Thacker who gave him his first stage role as the nobleman Ross in Macbeth performing at The Old Vic in Waterloo, London. However many of Longmore's stage performances were in Manchester, playing Cutler in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Royal Exchange Theatre, and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, and Jesse in I Just Stopped By To See The Man, both at Bolton Octagon.^[2] He won two Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for his stage acting,^[2] winning an award for his performance in My Children! My Africa! by South African playwright Athol Fugard directed by Ian Forrest at the Octagon Theatre in 1995.^[11] Longmore also set up The Arden Drama School in Manchester, set up in association with The Royal Exchange Theatre where he was Head of Acting at the school,^[6] and until 1981 he taught in the Drama Department at Manchester University.^[11]

Longmore most famous screen role was on the soap opera, Coronation Street, starting in 1992, Longmore played Dr McKinnon, his character treated Don Brennan played by Geoffrey Hinsliff following Brennan's car accident.^[3] He also had a role in Love Actually (2003) as the associate of the Prime Minister, played by Hugh Grant. As well as performing in Coronation Street and Love Actually, Longmore appeared in The Bill, Between the Lines, Casualty, Merseybeat, Waking the Dead and Cold Feet.^[3]

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