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Coronation Street and The Crown legend James Laurenson has died aged 84 after a 50-year career.
He first appeared in the long-running Manchester-based soap in 1968 as the Reverend Peter Hope.
More recently he played Scottish physician and homeopath Doctor Weir in the hit Netflix series The Crown.
Laurenson also famously performed the first gay kiss with Sir Ian McKellen in an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in 1970, just three years after homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK.
Coronation Street and the Crown star James Laurenson has died aged 84
Laurenson as Richard Crossdyke in The Cry alongside Sarah Lancashire
He appeared as Scottish physician and homeopath Doctor Weir in Netflix series The Crown
The Olivier award nominated actor first appeared in Coronation Street in 1968
He is survived by second wife Cari Haysom and his son Jamie, from his previous marriage to actress Carol Macready.
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