Wally Thomas

Played: Commissionaire (19 March 1980) at the Assembly Rooms who refused entry to Annie Walker and Olive Taylor-Brown as they didn't have tickets for Weatherfield Masonic Lodge's Ladies Night.

Wally Thomas died in 1990, but his agent, Marjorie Abel still handles his royalties, etc. He went into the Music Halls as a teenager, and after a spell at the Birmingham Rep, was in a number of touring companies. After distinguished war service, he formed his own rep company, and later appeared in a number of West End shows, including My Fair Lady at Drury Lane, and Irma La Douce at the Lyric. He appeared in numerous television productions, as well as Coronation Street - he was in an epidode of Emmerdale. He also appeared in The Singing Detective, Pennies from Heaven, Barchester Chronicle, The Pirates of Penzance, The Meaning of Life, Z Cars, Baal, Return to Waterloo, and many more. He also had an important part in a day-time soap opera, Together, in the late seventies, which was filmed live for Southern Television in Southampton and sank without trace.

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