George Waring obituary

A versatile character actor, he had five roles in Coronation Street Such was his versatility as a character actor that George Waring, who has died of cancer aged 84, took five different roles in the ITV soap Coronation Street. Of these, he will be best remembered as Arnold Swain, the bigamist husband of Emily Bishop. Arnold, a pet-shop owner, came knocking on the door in 1980, when the timid widow Emily and Deirdre Langton, whose marriage to Ray had broken up, formed the Coronation Street Secretarial...