Coronation Street fans may recognize a familiar face on the cobbles this week as actor Craig Cheetham turned up on in Weatherfield playing Aaron Sandford’s dad, Eric.Viewers got a teaser of Eric’s personality when Aaron recently confided in girlfriend Summer that his dad is an alcoholic and often beats him.Eric burst onto our screen in dramatic fashion on Wednesday (October 5th) when he showed up to confront his son over his missing weed.READ NEXT: Corrie Nina star Mollie Gallagher unrecognisable as she shows off blonde transformationWhen Kevin witnessed what Eric was doing, he sent him on his way Later Aaron went home and his dad beat him up once again.But eagle-eyed fans may recognise actor Craig from various other roles, including an appeared in rival soap Hollyoaks.In 2004 Craig played Paul in Hollyoaks for nine episodes.
He returned to the Chester-set soap in 2007 as Noel Ashworth, the real father of then show regular Rhys Ashworth. Noel died after eight episodes.
Craig has also appeared in Emmerdale playing DS Reed in Emmerdale from 2013 to 2014, where he led the investigation into the Home Farm fire started by Charity and Declan Macey.
His career reaches even further than soaps, with the star having played serial killer Peter Sutcliffe in This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, which was a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper.He’s also appeared in Heartbeat, Doctors, Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere, Life on Mars, Shameless, Brassic and Everything I Know About Love.Actor Craig has also appeared in Coronation Street before in 2016.
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