Philip Bretherton

Philip Bretherton is an English actor best known for his role as Alistair Deacon in the British television series As Time Goes By.

Bretherton was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied English and drama at the University of Manchester, where he decided to become an actor. Bretherton appeared in Rumpole of the Bailey in The Barrow Boy as Hugo Shillingford in November 1988 and made a brief appearance as Rod in Coronation Street also in 1988. He then returned as Robert Weston in 1991, and again as Ian Davenport in 2004.

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