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Brian Hibbard (26 November 1946 – 17 June 2012) was a Welsh actor and singing from Ebbw Vale, Wales, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original The Flying Pickets.
Following the group's success, Hibbard pursued a career as a television actor, making a guest appearance in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen. His first regular TV role came in 1989, playing petty criminal "Chunky" in three series of Manchester-based comedy drama Making Out (1989-1991), followed by a two-year stint in Coronation Street as garage mechanic Doug Murray. Other soap appearances included brief stints in Emmerdale as Bobby-John Downes, and as Henry Mason, a man who ran a children's home where Billy Mitchell and Julie Perkins were in care, in EastEnders.
Other appearances include Minder, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Satellite City, Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm as well as the youth drama Pam Fi, Duw? and in the 1997 film Twin Town as the self-styled "Karaoke King" Dai Rees.
In 2000, Hibbard was diagnosed with prostate cancer; he died of the disease on 17 June 2012 at the age of 65., Archived
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