Peter Adamson
Peter Adamson was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on February 16th, 1930 and is the Soap Opera Actor. At the age of 71, Peter Adamson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Peter George Adamson, who appeared on Len Fairclough in Coronation Street from January 1961 to May 1983, was an English actor best known for his appearances on Len Fairclough.
Early life
Peter George Adamson was born in Kensington, Liverpool, as the youngest of six children. His father was the owner of a menswear store. When World War II broke out, Adamson and his older brother were evacuated to Wales. He left school at the age of 14 and joined a solicitor's practice before embarking on a career as a commercial artist.
Personal life
In 1953, Adamson married Jean Leo Smith on the 2nd of December. They had two sons. Jean, who suffered with rheumatoid arthritis since her youth, died of septicaemia at Wrightington Hospital in Wigan on September 26, 1984, age 52.
Career
Adamson started attending LAMDA in London but then left after two months. He returned to the North West after spending many years in repertory theatre, where he met his wife Jean. He formed his own rep theatre company, directing and appearing in plays and summer shows at Weston-super-Mare. He appeared on London's West End and first appeared in a variety show in 1956. He appeared in television dramas including Granada Television's Skyport and Knight Errant Limited before being cast as Len Fairclough in Granada's fledgling soap opera Coronation Street. In January 1961, his character first appeared on television.
In the Emlyn Williams play Someone's Waiting, Adamson took two months away from Coronation Street to play Mr Fenn in September 1970. He was in New Zealand from November to December 1972, appearing as Gus in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. He appeared in the play Nightfall in 1973.
In December 1981, he was honoured in an episode of This Is Your Life when Eamonn Andrews was pleasantly surprised in London's Leicester Square.
Adamson, who confessed to having a drink problem and was heavily involved in bar brawls, earned a reputation as a hellraiser off-screen. After being arrested for drunk driving, he was fined £30 and barred from driving for a year.
He stopped drinking alcohol after being banned from the show unpaid for a week, and the Rossendale General Hospital in the Rossendale Valley began drying out in July 1969. Adamson was missing from episodes 921 to 935. He attended Alcoholics Anonymous and remained sober for 15 years, but after his wife's death, he rediscovered alcoholism again.