British actor Kenneth Cope, a popular TV and film star in the 1960s and ’70s thanks to leading appearances in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Coronation Street, has died. He was 93.
Cope’s former agent Sandra Chalmers, of The Artists Partnership, announced that he died at his home in the northern seaside town of Southport in Sefton, Liverpool, the area where he was born in 1931.
Renny Lister, Cope’s wife of 63 years, and family members, including actor daughter Martha Cope, were by his side. He is also survived by children Nick and Mark.
Chalmers said Cope was an “incredible icon of British TV & film.” Cope and Lister met in 1961 when they both joined the cast of long-running ITV soap Coronation Street. He played petty crook Jed Stone as a semi-regular through the early and mid-1960s. He later returned to the role after an absence of 42 years.
He honed his...
Cope’s former agent Sandra Chalmers, of The Artists Partnership, announced that he died at his home in the northern seaside town of Southport in Sefton, Liverpool, the area where he was born in 1931.
Renny Lister, Cope’s wife of 63 years, and family members, including actor daughter Martha Cope, were by his side. He is also survived by children Nick and Mark.
Chalmers said Cope was an “incredible icon of British TV & film.” Cope and Lister met in 1961 when they both joined the cast of long-running ITV soap Coronation Street. He played petty crook Jed Stone as a semi-regular through the early and mid-1960s. He later returned to the role after an absence of 42 years.
He honed his...
- 9/12/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Last summer I reported on news Syfy were planning to remake Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), the supernatural crime drama about a private investigator who receives help from his dead business partner. The show ran from 1969-70 in the UK, before it was renamed My Partner The Ghost and aired in syndication across the Us in 1972. A British remake was produced in 2000 for the BBC, starring comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, but was axed in 2001.
Syfy now have the rights to the series, having bought them from ITV last May, and the development of a full-blown Us remake is beginning to take shape. Writers Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) and Drew Z. Greenberg (Dexter, Warehouse 13) have been tasked to write a pilot. The story broke at The Hollywood Reporter today.
Syfy now have the rights to the series, having bought them from ITV last May, and the development of a full-blown Us remake is beginning to take shape. Writers Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) and Drew Z. Greenberg (Dexter, Warehouse 13) have been tasked to write a pilot. The story broke at The Hollywood Reporter today.
- 1/14/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg are going to write Syfy’s pilot-in-development Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) — based on the classic British TV show.
Espenson and Greenberg have plenty of Geek TV cred, with Espenson having written for Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse and Greenberg having worked on Dexter and Warehouse 13. Oh, and both wrote for a little show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
For those who haven’t heard of this quirky-titled project, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is about a detective who’s murdered while investagating a case. He returns as a ghost, visible only to his former partner,...
Espenson and Greenberg have plenty of Geek TV cred, with Espenson having written for Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse and Greenberg having worked on Dexter and Warehouse 13. Oh, and both wrote for a little show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
For those who haven’t heard of this quirky-titled project, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is about a detective who’s murdered while investagating a case. He returns as a ghost, visible only to his former partner,...
- 1/13/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
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