Fred Gee

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Coronation Street character

Fred Gee

Duration

1975-1984

First appearance

1975

Last appearance

1984

Profile

Status

Deceased

Occupation

Barman

Family

Wives	Edna (?-?) Eunice Nutall (1981-1982)

Fred Gee was a character in Granada Television soap-opera Coronation Street from 1975 to 1984.

Fred was a relatively unpleasant and unsympathetic character who arrived in Coronation Street in 1975. Played by Fred Feast he remained as an employee at the Rovers Return until he was fired by Billy Walker in 1984. Fred Gee got through two wives during his time - Edna (Mavis Rogerson) and Eunice (Meg Johnson).

Fred was first introduced into Coronation Street in 1975 after his wife Edna died in a warehouse fire. Shortly after, Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return was ordered by the brewery to take on a resident cellar man after the pub had been broken into. Annie was instantly impressed by the quietly spoken, dapper Fred with his olde worlde charm and impeccable manners. This, like so much else of Fred, was just a front to cover his true self, idle, ignorant and coarse. In 1976 he briefly had a fling with Vera Duckworth and brought her back to the Rovers to have afternoon tea with Annie Walker!. Fred was unlikeable and devious, and often did things for the sheer devilment, such as tossing bread on top of Eddie Yeats dustcart to attract pigeons in order to ruin his chances of winning the Best Kept Dust-Cart competition. Despite the fact that he liked to think he was in charge of the pub, Annie dominated him, Bet Lynch ridiculed him and Betty Turpin did nothing to hide her contempt for him.

In 1999, Eunice Gee returned for a brief time and announced that Fred had died of a heart attack previously.