Bryan Mosley

Bryan Mosley was a British actor best known as the grocer Alf Roberts in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Born in Leeds, he trained after RAF national service at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School and the Bradford Civic Theatre. His screen debut came in A Kind of Loving (1962), and he also appeared in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and played the gangster Cliff Brumby in Get Carter (1971). On Coronation Street he began in 1961 as a Post Office worker, appeared intermittently until 1963, returned in 1967 and became a regular in 1971, with Alf running the Corner Shop, serving as a local councillor and twice as Mayor of Weatherfield. His other television work included Doctor Who, The Avengers, Z Cars, Crossroads, A Family at War and Queenie's Castle. He also worked as a fight arranger and helped found the Society of British Fight Directors.