Bruce Jones (actor)

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Bruce Jones (born 24 January 1953 in Collyhurst, Manchester) is an English actor, best known for his role as cab driver Les Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street. His real name is Ian Roy Jones, but he took the name of his father for professional purposes.

[edit] Biography

Jones was the eldest of six children. His father was a steel erector and his mother Irene was a factory worker. During his school life, he appeared in several plays. At sixteen, he gained an apprenticeship as a pipefitter, but later became a firefighter and then a dairy worker. He then trained at the Manchester School of Theatre and went on to become a successful compere on the Northern club circuit, forming a double act with a friend to become "Clark and Jones". In 1977, Jones and a friend discovered the body of murdered prostitute Jean Jordan, a victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper", Peter Sutcliffe, in allotments in Manchester.

[edit] Career

In 1993, Jones gained his big break playing the lead role of Bob Williams in the Ken Loach film Raining Stones. In 1997, he had small parts in the hit film The Full Monty and in the Shane Meadows film Twenty Four Seven, before joining the cast of Coronation Street. In 2007, he is set to serve a suspension from the show after allegedly getting drunk with an undercover reporter, making inappropriate comments and revealing future storylines.[1]