Alan Browning

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Alan Brown (23 March 1926 – 7 September 1979), known professionally as Alan Browning, was an English actor.[1] Whilst working by day in an office job in Newcastle in the 1950s, he began acting as an amateur at the People's Theatre. He is best remembered for portraying Alan Howard in the television series Coronation Street, a role he played from 1969 to 1973.[2] He was married to his Coronation Street co-star Pat Phoenix from 23 December 1972, until his 1979 death from liver failure as a result of his heavy alcohol intake.[3] Phoenix played his onscreen wife, Elsie Tanner, in Coronation Street.