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John Middleton (actor)
Encyclopedia
John Middleton is an English
actor
well known for his part in ITV's Emmerdale
as Reverend
Ashley Thomas
. He has also appeared in many other TV programmes, most notably as John Hargreaves in Coronation Street
, the man who knocked down and killed Lisa Duckworth and another role in Emmerdale
, that of PC John Jarvis at the time of the Post Office raid in 1994.
He is married to his childhood sweetheart Christine and they have two sons, George and Jack. His birth name is John Cooper. Middleton plays Ashely Thomas as eight years younger than the actor's birth age. When Ashley turned 50, Middleton was in fact 58 years of age.
He plays cricket
for the Emmerdale team and also the celebrity team, The Bunburys. He is also a long time supporter and member of the Labour Party
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
well known for his part in ITV's Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
as Reverend
The Reverend
The Reverend is a style most often used as a prefix to the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. The Reverend is correctly called a style but is often and in some dictionaries called a...
Ashley Thomas
Ashley Thomas
Ashley Michael Thomas is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by John Middleton.-1996–99:Ashley soon began developing feelings for the landlady of the Woolpack pub, Bernice Blackstock. He tried putting them aside as Bernice was engaged to Gavin, despite suspecting that...
. He has also appeared in many other TV programmes, most notably as John Hargreaves in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, the man who knocked down and killed Lisa Duckworth and another role in Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
, that of PC John Jarvis at the time of the Post Office raid in 1994.
He is married to his childhood sweetheart Christine and they have two sons, George and Jack. His birth name is John Cooper. Middleton plays Ashely Thomas as eight years younger than the actor's birth age. When Ashley turned 50, Middleton was in fact 58 years of age.
He plays cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
for the Emmerdale team and also the celebrity team, The Bunburys. He is also a long time supporter and member of the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
External links
- http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/politics/s/1404946_celebrities_urge_voters_to_turn_out_for_byelection