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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''. 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. | |||
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