Mark Eden

Mark Eden was an English actor, born Douglas John Malin in London, who was best known as the villainous Alan Bradley on Coronation Street between 1986 and 1989. His stage work included the Royal Court Theatre and repertory theater in England and Wales. On screen he played Marco Polo in the Doctor Who serial Marco Polo (1964), took a reporter role in Quatermass and the Pit in 1958, was Number 100 in The Prisoner in 1967, and played Inspector Parker in 1970s adaptations of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories. After a short role as Wally Randle in 1981, he returned to Coronation Street as Alan Bradley, a part that ended in December 1989 when the character was killed by a Blackpool tram. He also worked on stage and in radio plays, wrote a musical about the Beach Boys after working with the group, appeared as Boucher in Poirot, and published an autobiography in 2010. He died in 2021.