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  • Tarmey admits in his recently published memoirs, Jack Duckworth and Me, that he cried real tears while filming Vera's funeral after Dawn's departure and the same will surely have been true of his character's obsequies.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • Tarmey never gave up the night job, though, and later parlayed his soap opera fame into a number of bestselling albums.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • But his popularity and longevity were due to the acting skills and physical resilience of Tarmey, 69.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • At the stage door, Britain's greatest stage actor of the day was ignored by autograph-hunters, while Tarmey was mobbed.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • As is inevitable in a long tenancy in soap opera, aspects of Jack and the actor playing him increasingly overlapped: both suffered heart attacks and subsequent surgery and it is mainly to reduce the risk of another real coronary that Tarmey felt it was time for Jack to have a fictional one.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • In a tribute to the closeness of her working relationship with Tarmey, the actor Liz Dawn came out of retirement to perform this spectral shuffle.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • In his early days in Coronation Street, reluctant to abandon his work as an extra just in case, Tarmey was a "background artiste" during the filming of Laurence Olivier's King Lear at Granada.

    Jack Duckworth waltzes out of Coronation Street Mark Lawson 2010

  • Elsewhere in the region, post office managers are monitoring their buildings and may call the Postal Service's maintenance office if they think a roof should be shoveled, said Tarmey, who added that roofs already have been cleared at larger buildings in North Reading and Shrewsbury "that have huge roof space that cover a large work area."

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • "We were closed for a short period of time this morning," Tarmey said of the Weston post office.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • Dennis Tarmey, a spokesman for the Greater Boston Postal District, said that it may have been lost in postal equipment or fallen into a sorting machine - which is often the case with letters that take decades to deliver - but added that that theory is pure speculation.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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