Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Peter ADAMSON (1930-2002)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Peter Adamson, actor, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in London's Leicester Square while visiting the city for costume fittings and publicity photographs for a forthcoming pantomime in Liverpool.
Peter, who was born in Kensington, Liverpool, first began acting with an amateur dramatics company in Wavertree while working as an apprentice engraver. After a year with the company, he won a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1950.
He later worked in repertory companies for several years in Bury, Windsor, Sale and Weston-Super-Mare, where he set up his own theatre company, producing and performing in plays and summer shows. By 1959, he was playing bit parts on television before joining the cast of Granada Television's fledgling series Coronation Street the following year as Len Fairclough - a role which made him a household name.
"You frightened the hell out of me!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 584
- Subject No: 581
- Broadcast date: Wed 23 Dec 1981
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Tue 22 Dec 1981 7.00pm
- Venue: Royalty Theatre
- Series: 22
- Edition: 11
- Code name: Dad
on the guest list...
- Norman Vaughan
- Melvyn Hayes
- Windsor Davies
- Jean - wife
- Stacey Gregg
- Jane Fyffe
- Jillianne Foote
- Dorothy Dampier
- Jim Lavelle
- John Lavelle
- Michael - son
- Greig - son
- Paula - daughter-in-law
- Ivan Beavis
- Bill Podmore
- Thelma Barlow
- Helen Worth
- Elizabeth Dawn
- Peter Dudley
- Sue Nicholls
- Anne Kirkbride
- Christabel Finch
- Johnny Briggs
- Jack Howarth
- Barbara Knox
- Cliff - brother
- Jean - sister
- Hazel - sister
- Cedric - brother
- Talfryn Thomas
- Leighton Camden
- Mary Holland
- Geoffrey Reed
- Elizabeth Smith
- Bill Kenwright
- Paul Massie
- Douglas - brother Filmed tributes:
- Alan Roberts
- Leonard Rossiter
related appearances...
- Dick Hoskin - Jan 1963
- Pat Phoenix - Nov 1972
- Julie Goodyear - Oct 1980
- Bob Todd - Feb 1984
production team...
- Researcher: Katie Lander
- Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
- Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
- Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
from Elsie Tanner to Eddie Yates
Screenshots of Peter Adamson This Is Your Life
Series 22 subjects
Bob Champion | Bill Fraser | Wayne Sleep | Ian Botham | Cannon and Ball | Rob Buckman | Angela RipponJulia McKenzie | Jackie Milburn | Paul Shane | Peter Adamson | Kiri Te Kanawa | Mickie Most | Anita Harris
Mike Brace | Faith Brown | Robin Bailey | Rod Hull | Bob Monkhouse | John Toshack | Wally Herbert
Joe Gormley | Roger Whittaker | Alan Whicker | Peter Davison | Douglas Bader