Tributes have been paid after the death of Michael Angelis, an actor who will be remembered as the morose rabbit-obsessed Lucien from The Liver Birds, the desperate Chrissie in Boys from the Blackstuff, and the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine.
Born in Dingle, Liverpool, Angelis was married to the Coronation Street actor Helen Worth, who plays Gail Platt, between 1991-2001 and later married Jennifer Khalastchi.
The comedian and presenter Matt Lucas said: “Michael Angelis was one of the greatest TV actors I’ve ever seen.
One of Angelis’s most memorable performances was as Chrissie Todd in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff, a Liverpool-set drama that showed the devastating blight of 1980s unemployment.