Ken Parry played two roles on Coronation Street: in July and August 1961 he appeared as Orinoco Club owner Sam Johnson and in April 1977 he appeared as Rita Littlewood's agent Benny Stone. In between these roles he appeared as an Astronomer in Thunderfinger - Part 1, an episode of Pardon the Expression in 1966 and as Billy Houghton in You Can't Get Out Of The Wood, an episode of Turn out the Lights in 1967 - both Street spin-off's. Parry died on 12th December 2007.