Peter Adamson (actor)
[1] Peter George Adamson[2] was born on Sunday, 16 February 1930 at 54 Hannan Road in Kensington, Liverpool,[3] the youngest of six children.[4] After taking part in a community play at the age of 17, Adamson moved to London and attended LAMDA, but left after two months.In February 1983, Adamson sold behind-the-scenes stories about his co-stars to The Sun newspaper journalist Dan Slater, calling some Street actors "amateurs".[11] Adamson added that Doris Speed was a great actress but was going deaf and Cheryl Murray who played Suzy Birchall "Was too full of herself for my liking.[13] On 24 April 1983, a Sunday newspaper reported Adamson had been arrested the previous day on suspicion of two incidents of indecent assault on two eight-year-old girls at a public swimming pool in Haslingden where he had assisted as a part-time instructor.His trial began on 18 July 1983 and he was represented by barrister George Carman QC, who had a prominent career defending celebrities.[14] In June 1988, he was allegedly persuaded by freelance Sun reporter Dan Slater to change his story following several bottles of whisky.[20] Post-Coronation Street, Adamson starred as Inspector Hubbard[1] in a West End production of Dial M for Murder at the Vaudeville Theatre from November 1983 to March 1984 which also featured Simon Ward and Hayley Mills.[22] He returned to the UK in the spring of 1988 and played Sir Tunbelly Clumsy in a revival of The Relapse at the Mermaid Theatre from September to December that year.In the final decade of his life, he lived on the state pension and benefits in a one-bedroom Housing Association flat in Welton, Lincolnshire.He revealed in an interview with The Sunday People in May 1994 that none of the Coronation Street cast had ever contacted him since his sacking and that he had written twice to Julie Goodyear, who he had been very close to during his time on the show, but she never replied.Jean Adamson, who had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis since her teens, died of septicaemia at Wrightington Hospital in Wigan on 26 September 1984, aged 52.