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- Birth nameColin Philip Lowrie
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Philip Lowrie was born on June 20, 1936 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Andy Capp (1988) and East Lynne (1976). He died on April 25, 2025.
- Had a very brief and unsuccessful career as a pop singer in the early sixties, recording "I might have known (before)" / "I might have known (after)" for the Ember Records label.
- At one point he had a flat in London, a house near Northampton and a cottage in Manchester.
- He liked the country, swimming and horse riding and had a blue Bedlington dog.
- He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after his mother saved enough to cover his fees.
- Philip Lowrie was an English stage and television actor, best known for playing Dennis Tanner in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, from the programme's inception in 1960 until 1968 and again from 2011 until 2014.
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