The dad of three has since had parts in Corrie, Casualty and Vera as well as film roles in The Real Full Monty and Downton Abbey. He was a fantastic actor and a good friend, and he was also a snooker fanatic who lived nearby in Leicester. Greengrass (Bill Maynard), the main character of this episode, has trouble getting paid for the gardening he did for Stringer. In my first episode I only had five lines. Known for his crotchety attitude and general bad temper, Oscar was forced to retire from the police force after a nearly fatal heart attack and instead became the proprietor of the Aidensfield Post Office. The actor spent more than 60 years in showbiz. Easiest job Ive ever done, I loved it. He could be 6ft 1in of pure trouble if he wasnt getting his way but nobody ever questioned his acting ability and supreme comic timing. @ 54.390296, -0.722404. At first, Greengrass was used as a comic relief character, but after some time Greengrass became a central character with his own intrigues and schemes. Bill played loveable rogue Claude Jeremiah Greengrass from 1992 to 2000 - a man better known by his surname. However, he did make an appearance in the Heartbeat spinoff series titled . Its been 11 years since iconic British historical police drama Heartbeat left our TV screens after 18 series and some explosive storylines - but where are its cast members now? He and Gina lost their baby before they could marry, and after a confrontation with a man wielding a shotgun, was shot dead in series 17. File photo from 1996 of the cast of ITV's Heartbeat. Bills debut came aged eight, singing in a working mens club, perched on a plank balanced between two buckets so he could be seen. Bus carrying 40 school pupils plummets down creek in French Alps, A bus carrying 40 schoolchildren home after a trip to the French Alps fell down a wooded slope into a ravine in the mountainous region, leaving two people requiring hospital treatment, 'Gangster told me that using seemingly innocent word to address mobster could be fatal', EXCLUSIVE: Peter Edwards, the leading authority on the mafia in Canada and co-writer of the book that inspired Netflix series, Bad Blood, has shared one bit of mobster code he learned from a contact, Erling Haaland loses the plot in scrap with Dan Burn - before laughing it off, Erling Haaland has bullied numerous defences since his arrival in the Premier League, but the Manchester City forward's took on his largest opponent yet - Dan Burn, Vanessa Feltz says it ok to fake orgasm if partner is 'twiddling, licking and flicking', This Morning star Vanessa Feltz has confessed that it's not always a bad idea to fake an orgasm especially if your partner has been trying their best between the sheets, 'I'm 23 and a mum to two teens - people don't take me seriously as a parent', Teacher Tasia Taylor, 23, from Arkansas, US, has adopted two teenagers - Rory, 13, and Tamiray, 15.