# Andy Devine (English actor) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andy_Devine_(English_actor) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andy_Devine_(English_actor).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Devine_(English_actor) > Source revision: 1329520004 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English actor (1942–2022) Not to be confused with American actor [Andy Devine](/source/Andy_Devine). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Andy Devine" English actor – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Andy Devine Born (1942-02-28)28 February 1942 Manchester, Lancashire, England Died 27 January 2022(2022-01-27) (aged 79) Southport, Merseyside, England Occupation Actor Years active 1963–2011 Known for Emmerdale Queer as Folk **Peter Devine** (stage name **Andy Devine**, 28 February 1942 – 27 January 2022) was a British actor primarily on television, whose best known role was [Shadrach Dingle](/source/Shadrach_Dingle) on one of [ITV](/source/ITV_(TV_network))'s long-running [soap operas](/source/Soap_opera), *[Emmerdale](/source/Emmerdale)*. He played Shadrach on and off starting in 2000 and made his final appearance in July 2010. His credits have occasionally been confused with those of the American actor [Andy Devine](/source/Andy_Devine) (1905–1977). Devine served in the Royal Navy for eight years after joining at aged 17 in 1959.[1] He was also a classical actor before going into the soaps. ## Career Devine began his acting career in 1963.[2] He mainly had minor roles, such as an uncredited Draconian Guard in several episodes of the *[Doctor Who](/source/Doctor_Who)* story *[Frontier in Space](/source/Frontier_in_Space)*. He also had a memorably prominent role as a gay man in the [Channel 4](/source/Channel_4) series *[Queer As Folk](/source/Queer_as_Folk_(British_TV_series))*, and he appeared in an episode of *[Linda Green](/source/Linda_Green)*, playing the eponymous lead character's abrasive and lecherous boss Syd Jenkins. He also performed his *[Emmerdale](/source/Emmerdale)* character [Shadrach Dingle](/source/Shadrach_Dingle) character on the [ITV](/source/ITV_(TV_network)) show *[Harry Hill's TV Burp](/source/Harry_Hill's_TV_Burp)*. On 23 July 2010, Devine left *Emmerdale* after over ten years on the soap, when Shadrach was killed off in an emotional storyline related to [alcohol abuse](/source/Alcohol_abuse). ## Personal life and death Devine died in [Southport Hospital](/source/Southport_and_Formby_District_General_Hospital) on 27 January 2022, at the age of 79, as a result of "hospital-acquired pneumonia", following a fall at his home.[3][4] ## Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1963 Comedy Playhouse Unknown Episode: "A Clerical Error" Maigret Extra Episode: "Peter the Lett"; uncredited 1967 Softly, Softly Chief Constable Episode: "Selection"; uncredited 1969 Z-Cars Warder Episode: "Alibi: Part 1" Callan Brezhevski Episode: "The Little Bits and Pieces of Love" 1970 Doomwatch Man Episode: "Spectre at the Feast"; uncredited 1972 Emma Cole's Manservant TV mini-series Villains Man Episode: "Belinda"; uncredited Warder Episode: "Billy Boy"; uncredited 1973 Doctor Who Draconian Guard 4 episodes; uncredited 1992 The Girl From Tomorrow Mr. Corbett Episode: "A Primitive and Dangerous Time" 1993 Three Seven Eleven Mr. Pudsey 2 episodes Cracker Guard on Train Episode: "The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1" 1994 In Suspicious Circumstances George Barnard Episode: "The Boaster" 1995 Coronation Street Photographer Episode #1.3924 1996 Cardiac Arrest Eric Episode: "The Body Electric" Out of the Blue Jackson Hanley Series 2: Episode 5 Prime Suspect Gravefaced Reporter Episodes: "Errors of Judgement: Parts 1 & 2" Hillsborough Additional Cast Television film The Moonstone Landlord 1997 Where the Heart Is Dougie Walford Episode: "Summoned by Bells" The Lakes Bus Driver Series 1: Episode 4 My Son the Fanatic Comedian Film 1998 Emmerdale Baz Bradstone 2 episodes The Cops Minibus Driver Series 1: Episode 3 1999–2000 Queer as Folk Bernard Thomas All 10 episodes 1999 Dockers Meat Salesman Television film 2000, 2002–2010 Emmerdale Shadrach Dingle Series regular; 645 episodes 2000 Coronation Street Jason Ross 5 episodes 2001 Merseybeat Bobby Miller Episode: "Step by Step" Linda Green Syd Jenkins Episode: "Sexual Harassment" 2002 An Angel for May Drunken Man Television film 2003 Grease Monkeys Len Episode: "The Cut and Shut" 2007 Harry Hill's TV Burp Shadrach Dingle Series 6: Episode 3 2011 Monroe Mr. Ashton Series 1: Episode 3 Doctors Dennis Dowling Episode: "Footsteps" ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hayward, Anthony (2 June 2022). ["Andy Devine obituary"](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/02/andy-devine-obituary). *The Guardian*. London. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0261-3077](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077). Retrieved 28 February 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Andy Devine | BFI](https://web.archive.org/web/20170113163203/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb687b996) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Andy Devine: Emmerdale actor died after accidental fall, coroner concludes"](https://news.sky.com/story/andy-devine-emmerdale-actor-died-after-accidental-fall-coroner-concludes-12624791). Sky News. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Gazette_4-0)** ["Deceased Estates: Peter Devine"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4075180). *The London Gazette*. 20 May 2022. 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