Actor David Burke, known for playing Dr Watson in the classic Sherlock Holmes ITV series as well as appearing in Coronation Street, has died aged 91.
Burke’s passing was announced on Friday by his agent Scott Marshall Partners, who said the actor died on May 10 and was survived by fellow actors wife Anna Calder-Marshall and son Tom Burke.
Liverpool-born Burke won a scholarship to Oxford to read classics in the 1950s, feeling out-of-place having been brought up as a working-class boy, and harnessed a wish to become the next Laurence Olivier.
Burke later trained at drama school Rada, secured after an audition
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