John McArdle (born 16 August 1949) is an English actor. He is most
notable for playing Billy Corkhill in the soap opera Brookside, with
many other smaller appearances in other soaps and dramas. Playing a
regular character in Brookside's heyday (alongside Ricky Tomlinson and
Sue Johnston, and working with writers such as Jimmy McGovern), he
burned himself into the viewers' memories with his portrayal of a man
beyond breaking point, which culminated with him ranting at neighbours
and churning up their lawns, as he drove his car around in
circles.John was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when he was
surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Merseybeat.In 2006, he
portrayed Frank Taylor in the BBC's Surviving Disasters, about the
Munich air disaster of 1958, in which Taylor was the only newspaper
reporter to survive.In 2010, he played Christopher Mead's father in
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