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'''Geoffrey Hughes''' ([[2 February (people)|2 February]] [[1944 (people)|1944]]-[[27 July (people)|27 July]] [[2012 (people)|2012]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Mike Keegan|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/tv_and_showbiz/s/1584677_actor-geoffrey-hughes---coronation-streets-eddie-yates---dies-aged-68|title=Actor Geoffrey Hughes – Coronation Street's Eddie Yates – dies aged 68 |publisher=menmedia.co.uk|accessdate=August 12, 2013}}</ref>) played Mr [[Popplewick]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''. He is also well-known as Onslow, Hyacinth Bucket's slovenly brother-in-law on the BBC sitcom ''Keeping Up Appearances'' and previously for playing the equally slovenly Eddie Yates in ''Coronation Street''. He provided the voice of Paul McCartney in [[the Beatles]]' film ''Yellow Submarine''. In 2009 and again in August 2010, he was taken to hospital with prostate cancer. He died on 27 July 2012. | '''Geoffrey Hughes''' ([[2 February (people)|2 February]] [[1944 (people)|1944]]-[[27 July (people)|27 July]] [[2012 (people)|2012]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Mike Keegan|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/tv_and_showbiz/s/1584677_actor-geoffrey-hughes---coronation-streets-eddie-yates---dies-aged-68|title=Actor Geoffrey Hughes – Coronation Street's Eddie Yates – dies aged 68 |publisher=menmedia.co.uk|accessdate=August 12, 2013}}</ref>) played Mr [[Popplewick]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''. He is also well-known as Onslow, Hyacinth Bucket's slovenly brother-in-law on the BBC sitcom ''Keeping Up Appearances'' and previously for playing the equally slovenly Eddie Yates in ''Coronation Street'', as well as also playing Twiggy in BBC comedy ''The Royle Family'', and tight-fisted comic businessman Vernon Scripps in ITV police drama [[Heartbeat|''Heartbeat'']]. He provided the voice of Paul McCartney in [[the Beatles]]' film ''Yellow Submarine''. In 2009 and again in August 2010, he was taken to hospital with prostate cancer. He died on 27 July 2012. | ||
As Mr [[Popplewick]] was an alias of the [[Valeyard]] and the Valeyard was, according to [[the Master]], "an amalgamation of the darker side of [[the Doctor]]'s nature", taken from somewhere between his "twelfth and final incarnations", Geoffrey Hughes is technically a credited actor employed by the BBC to play the Doctor. | As Mr [[Popplewick]] was an alias of the [[Valeyard]] and the Valeyard was, according to [[the Master]], "an amalgamation of the darker side of [[the Doctor]]'s nature", taken from somewhere between his "twelfth and final incarnations", Geoffrey Hughes is technically a credited actor employed by the BBC to play the Doctor. | ||