Louis Emerick

Louis Emerick is a British television actor whose best known part, the soap character Mick Johnson, came in Brookside; he later played the same role in Hollyoaks, and he has also worked on Doctors. In Last of the Summer Wine he made 55 appearances as PC Walsh between 1988 and 2010. Casualty cast him in 2003 as Mike Bateman, a fireman, across four episodes. His television work also takes in Coronation Street, Cold Feet, Waterloo Road, Benidorm, The Bill and New Tricks, and he appeared in the film Layer Cake. He finished third on Celebrity MasterChef in 2008. On stage he toured in The Full Monty as Horse, among other plays and pantomimes. From 2016 he played Herman, a pub landlord, in the Dave comedy Zapped, and he returned to Coronation Street in 2018 and to Doctors in 2020.