Dave Dutton

A former television comedy writer, Dave Dutton is an actor specialising in quirky Northern character parts. Along with his many other roles on British television, Dave has appeared in an incredible seven different main character parts in top British TV soap Coronation Street: from Weatherfield Gazette photographer Harry Benson to Bert Latham - barmy friend of Jack Duckworth with whom he once led a memorable fox hunt episode in the middle of the famous street with his dog Boomer. Recently, he has played Eric the Postman in Emmerdale. His latest Corrie incarnation has been that of Gerald Unwin, who likes a drink and a smoke and is the uncle of Shelley, manager of the Rovers Return. As the unscrupulous Harry Benson, the roguish Weatherfield Gazette photographer, he chained one of the unfortunate Battersby girls to a tree and took glamour shots of her ("for the lads in the darkroom"!) Along with his reporter Duncan Stott, he ruined the church wedding of Roy and Hayley. He first came t