Creator / Kenneth Cope

Kenneth Cope, (14 April 1931), is a British actor best known for playing Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Jed Stone in Coronation Street.

Early in his career, he was a character actor until he landed the role of Jed Stone in Coronation Street, which helped boost attention to him. Around the same time, he was a regular on That Was the Week That Was.

At the end of The '60s, he starred in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Marty Hopkirk. He also played major roles in two of the Carry On films, in Carry On at Your Convenience as the disagreeable shop steward Vic Spanner and in Carry On Matron as unwilling crook Cyril Carter. He also starred in The Movie version of George & Mildred.

He wrote for the children's TV series Striker in the mid-'70s, and in 1984, starred in the Britcom Bootle Saddles as Percy James, who worked in a themed cowboy village. He also played Ray Hilton in Brookside from 1999 to 2002.

In 2008, he returned to Coronation Street for the first time in 42 years. This was his final acting job, and now Cope lives in Southport and writes for a weekly newspaper.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• X the Unknown (1956) — Private Sapper Lansing
• Dunkirk (1958) — Lieutenant Lumpkin
• These Are the Damned (1962) — Sid
• Genghis Khan (1965) — Subodai
• Night of the Big Heat (1967) — Tinker Mason
• Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) — Vic Spanner
• Carry On Matron (1972) — Cyril Carter

Series

• Dixon of Dock Green, 6 episodes:
  • "The Roaring Boy" (1956) — Doug Beale
  • "They Don't Like Policemen" (1958) — Barney Dugan
  • "George Takes Whisky" (1958) — Ned
  • "A Flask of Black Coffee" (1959) — Banks
  • "Christmas Eve at the Nick" (1960) — Ron Sharp
  • "Jackpot" (1976) — Harold Tovey
• The Adventures of Robin Hood, 3 episodes:
  • "An Apple for the Archer" (1957) — Timothy Cox
  • "The Mark" (1957) — Diccon
  • "Elixir of Youth" (1958) — Alwyn the Squire
• Ivanhoe, episode "The Escape" (1958) — Warren
• Coronation Street, 113 episodes (1961-2009) — Jed Stone
• One Step Beyond, episode "The Villa" (1961) — Lionel
• That Was the Week That Was, 37 episodes (1962-63) — As Himself
• Z Cars, 3 episodes:
  • "The Share Out" (1965) — Richie
  • 2-episode story "The Great Art Robbery" (1967) — Frankie Hancock
• The Avengers, 2 episodes:
  • "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" (1967) — Tom Savage
  • "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" (1968) — Gardiner
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), 26 episodes (1969-70) — Marty Hopkirk
• Minder, 3 episodes:
  • "Bury My Half at Waltham Green" (1979) — Albert Stubbs
  • "Waiting for Goddard" (1985) — Scooter
  • "Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley" (1994) — Phelan
• Play for Today, episode "The Vanishing Army" (1980) — Drill Sergeant
• Doctor Who, 4-episode story "Warriors' Gate" (1981) — Packard
• Miss Marple, 2-episode story "Sleeping Murder" (1987) — Jackie Afflick
• Rumpole of the Bailey, episode "Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow" (1987) — Norman
• CASUAL+Y, 2 episodes:
  • "Desperate Odds" (1988) — Archie Higgs
  • "Value for Money" (1994) — Les Hocknall
• Bergerac, episode "Natural Enemies" (1989) — Ted Swinton
• Uncle Jack, episode "Oil" (1990) — Colonel
• The Bill, 3 episodes:
  • "It's a Small World" (1992) — Police Constable Derton
  • 2-episode story "Sequence of Events" (2006) — Jimmy Hastings
• Lovejoy, episode "Somewhere - Over the Rainbow?" (1994) — John Ikin
• A Touch of Frost, episode "True Confessions" (1997) — Charlie Fairclough
• Goodnight Sweetheart, episode "The Leaving of Liverpool" (1997) — Landlord
• Last of the Summer Wine, 2 episodes^{show list}"The Love Mobile", "All That Glitters Is Not Elvis" (1997-2008) — Lance
• Brookside, 21 episodes (1999-2002) — Ray Hilton
• Waking the Dead, 2 episodes^{show list}"Shadowplay: Part 1", "Shadowplay: Part 2" (2004) — Neville Harding
• Doctors, 2 episodes:
  • "Too Darn Hot" (2004) — Brian Holland
  • "Invisible Touch" (2007) — Frank Leakey
• Hustle, episode "Getting Even" (2007) — Colin

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