Colin Edwynn

Colin Edwynn is an actor who appeared as PC Jimmy Conway in the British television soap opera Coronation Street between 1967 and 1972.

He appeared in several episodes of the long running BBC Radio comedy The Clitheroe Kid as Mr Humphrey Brocklebank. He has also appeared in the television series Bergerac and Heartbeat.

Edwynn had a minor role to play in the television situation-comedy series Dinnerladies as the character Bert (Season 2; Episode 1: "Catering").

Since 1981 he has run the Queen's Head pub in Tebworth, Bedfordshire.

There is a very unusual story behind this name. Colin was born as 'Colin Edwin Thompson'. When he became an actor he had to change his name because no actor can have the same name. He took his middle name and changed the spelling. His idol was an actor called Ed Wynn and changed his name so it had the same spelling. The name Edwynn is not Welsh, Scottish or Irish or any other name. It was made up.