Coronation Street legend who seemed in display’s first ever episode dies age 88 as tributes pour in

Coronation Street legend Philip Lowrie has died on the age of 88.

The actor, who seemed within the first ever episode of the ITV cleaning soap as Dennis Tanner, kicked the bucket on Friday, his publicist shared in a remark.

‘My shopper and really expensive pal, Philip Lowrie, the loved actor famend for his function as Dennis Tanner on Coronation Street, kicked the bucket the day gone by at 88,’ his publicist Mario Renzullo informed ITV News.

‘His dying marks the tip of an technology for the sector’s longest-running cleaning soap, the place he turned into a cornerstone of its storytelling.’

Philip famously starred as Dennis Tenner within the ITV cleaning soap opera from the display’s inception in 1960 till 1968, and returned from 2011 till 2014.