Teddy Turner

{{Short description|British actor (1917–1992)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{for|other people with similar names|Ted Turner (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox person |image =  | name = Teddy Turner | caption = | birth_name = Joseph Edward Turner | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|06|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|8|29|1917|6|13|df=y}} | death_place = Horsforth, Yorkshire, England | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | othername = | occupation = Television actor | yearsactive = | spouse = | domesticpartner = | children = | website = }} '''Joseph Edward Turner''' (13 June 1917 – 29 August 1992) was a Yorkshire-born English actor and comedian who played 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teddy Turner |url=http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/turner_teddy.html |url-status=live |website=Corrie.net}}</ref> In the late 1970s (and all the way up to the final series in 1990) he played the part of Mrs. Pumphrey's manservant Hodgekin in ''All Creatures Great and Small''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teddy Turner |url=https://moviedude.co.uk/Teddy%20Turner.htm |url-status=live |website=Movie Dude}}</ref>'','' Gordon in ''Open All Hours'' and subsequently the part of Banks in the popular 1980s sitcom ''Never the Twain''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slade |first=Brian |date=27 March 2020 |title=Never the Twain |url=https://televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/never-the-twain |url-status=live |website=Television Heaven}}</ref> He also made occasional appearances in ''Last of the Summer Wine''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last Of The Summer Wine: Series 4, Episode 7 - A Merry Heatwave |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/last_of_the_summer_wine/episodes/4/7/ |url-status=live |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=20 December 2020 |title=Last of the Summer Wine – Small Tune On a Penny Wassail (26th December 1978) |url=https://archivetvmusings.blog/2020/12/20/last-of-the-summer-wne-small-tune-on-a-penny-wassail/ |website=Archive Television Musings}}</ref> He died of emphysema in 1992 at the age of 75.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 September 1992 |title=Ex-street actor dies aged 75 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19920902/037/0005 |url-status=live |work=Newcastle Journal |pages=5}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1975 |''Coronation Street'' |Caretaker |1 episode |- | rowspan="3" |1976 |''Hadleigh'' |First Man |Episode: "Favours" |- | ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet''|| Judge ||Film |- |''Yanks Go Home'' |Mr. Clegg |2 episodes |- | rowspan="3" |1977 |''Crown Court'' |Charles Hunt |3 episodes |- |''Play for Today'' |Councillor |Episode: "The Mayor's Charity" |- |''This Time Next Year'' |Ernest Shaw |9 episodes (mini-series) |- | rowspan="5" |1978 |''Emmerdale'' |Tom Hawker |3 episodes |- |''Last of the Summer Wine'' |Edgar/ Postman |2 episodes |- |''Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt'' |Postman |3 episodes |- |''The Onedin Line'' |Barnabus |Episode: "No Smoke Without Fire" |- |''Strangers'' |Jess Green |Episode: "Paying Guests" |- |1978 – 1990 |''All Creatures Great and Small'' |Hodgkin |13 episodes |- | rowspan="2" |1979|| ''Dracula'' || Swales ||Film |- |''Ripping Yarns'' |Chairman |Episode: "Golden Gordon" |- | rowspan="2" |1980 |''Flickers'' |Eddie Marco |2 episodes |- |''Sounding Brass'' |Frank Oldfield |6 episodes |- |1981 – 1982 |''Open All Hours'' |Gordon Stackpool |2 episodes |- |1981 – 1988 |''Never the Twain'' |Banks |35 episodes |- |1982 |''Play for Today'' |Old Tom |Episode: "England's Green and Pleasant Land" |- |1982 – 1983 |''Coronation Street'' |Chalkie Whiteley |60 episodes |- |1985 |''The Practice'' |Willie Wilson |4 episodes |- |1986 |''Screen Two'' |Old Man |Episode: "The Insurance Man" |- |1987 |''Bulman'' |Blind Jack |Episode: "W.C. Fields Was Right" |- |1989 – 1990 |''Emmerdale'' |Bill Whiteley |31 episodes |}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0877899}}

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