Dean Sullivan, actor who played Jimmy Corkhill for 17 years in the Channel 4 soap Brookside – obituary
Dean Sullivan, who has died aged 68, played the loveable rogue Jimmy Corkhill, one of the longest-serving characters in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, from 1986 until it ended in 2003; so committed was he to the programme that five years after it finished he tried to buy several of the houses with a view to reviving the show.
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