Geoffrey Hinsliff played cabbie Don Brennan in the ITV soap for 10 years

Coronation Street star Geoffrey Hinsliff left over £330,000 in his will – mostly to his wife. The Leeds-born actor played cabbie Don Brennan in the ITV soap for 10 years from 1987.

Audiences were gripped by his tempestuous on-screen relationship with Ivy, played by the late Lynne Perrie. He died on September 15, 2024 aged 86 and newly released documents show his estate was worth £336,755, which was reduced to £333,214 after deductions.

He left £5,000 to his nephew Russell Johnson and the rest to his wife Judith, who he married in 1967. Judith, together with their daughters Gaby and Sophie, described Hinsliff as “restless, curious, adventurous and funny – he loved nothing better than setting the world to rights around the dinner table”.

They added: “But it was family and home that ultimately mattered to him most.”

ITV added in a statement: “His partnership with Lynne Perrie was something rather special, and they gave the viewers huge pleasure for many years.”

Hinsliff had a long and varied acting career with appearances in 1960s and ’70s TV shows Adam Adamant Lives!, Dixon of Dock Green, UFO, Crown Court, I Claudius, The Professionals and Heartbeat.

He also had a role in the comedy-drama Brass and appeared in two Doctor Who stories: Image of the Fendahl and Nightmare of Eden. But he was best known for Coronation Street.

Hinsliff’s character’s storylines ranged from on-and-off-again extramarital affairs with Denise Black’s character, Denise Osbourne, to an attempted kidnapping of Alma Halliwell, portrayed by Amanda Barrie.

Hinsliff was eventually written off the show in 1997, when his character died in a car crash shortly after kidnapping Alma Halliwell and attempting to murder her then-husband Mike Baldwin, played by Johnny Briggs.

He lived in Winster in the Derbyshire Dales.