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Ray Brooks
Ray Brooks
Actor Ray Brooks, who starred in some of the UK's best-known programmes in a television career spanning five decades, has died aged 86.
Brooks narrated the classic 1970s children's show Mr Benn and played the male lead in the ground-breaking 1960s BBC drama Cathy Come Home.
He also starred in primetime 1980s programmes Big Deal, in which he played loveable rogue gambler Robbie Box, and Running Wild, as the comic lead Max Wild.
Brooks also became one of few actors to appear in both Coronation Street and EastEnders. He played Norman Philips in the ITV soap in the 1960s, and arrived in Albert Square 40 years later to portray Joe Macer, who infamously murdered his wife Pauline Fowler.
He died on Saturday after a short illness, his family told the BBC.
10 August 2025
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