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• Left school at the age of 15 and started working for the Manchester Evening News newspaper.
• Changed his name to Warren in the 1960s because his girlfriend at the time had a crush on actor Warren Beatty.
• Played Huckleberry Finn in a 1965 Liverpool Playhouse production of Tom Sawyer.
• Played two separate characters on Coronation Street.
• The last scene he ever filmed was his character Charles Poldark's death in Poldark, two weeks before his own death in November 2014.