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Actress Chris dies aged 69
Date published: 14 January 2010
A GREENFIELD actress who worked with Morecambe and Wise and Mike and Bernie Winters has died.
Chris Langford (69) was known for her role in “The One’O’Clock Show” in the Tyne Tees television region.
The mother of two, who was also a professional singer, died on January 6 in hospital.
Mrs Langford was working as a solicitor’s secretary in Manchester and studying law when she decided to enter a talent show — which she won. Tyne Tees Television’s Len Martin was in the audience and he invited her to an audition in Newcastle.
The five-year contract she was offered led her to pursue a career in singing and move to the North-East.
She settled in Monkseaton, where she lived with her husband Jim Goldby, later a director at Tyne Tees, and their two children.
She sang with the big bands of the era and worked alongside Morecambe and Wise and Mike and Bernie Winters.
In the early 1980s Mrs Langford moved back to Greenfield and married Richard Guinea.
The funeral service will take place on Monday at St Mary’s Church in Greenfield, at 1pm, followed by committal at Dukinfield Crematorium at 2.30pm.
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If anyone has any memories of Chris it would be lovely if they could add them to her page at the Lasting Tribute website. We understand she was very popular and much-loved and it would be great to know more about her life and work.
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As well as performing many times with Morecambe and Wise, and Mike and Bernie Winters. Chris was also well-know with Granada appearing twice a week on ‘People and Places’ She was the widow of Richard Guinea himself a Director Producer with Granada who for some years was associated with Coronation Street, she was a close personal friend of Bill Grundy and Pat Phoenix and countless others and was much associated with that era.
By M J Riley @ 14/01/2010 12:01:36