# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:36:43.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-hughes"
name: "Geoffrey Hughes"
slug: "geoffrey-hughes"
description: "Geoffrey William Hughes DL was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) and \"Twiggy\" in the sitcom The Royle Family, playing the part from 1998 to 2008."
tagline: "British actor (1944–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Geoffrey_Hughes.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-02-02"
deathDate: "2012-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.97772233113527
  historical:           16.481064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400616/"
    handle:    "nm0400616"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump