Home and Away's Alf Stewart star now - from emergency surgery to mistaken death
ok.co.ukWhen Home and Away was launched as a rival soap to high-flying Neighbours back in 1988, nobody could have predicted how it would make huge household names of many of its characters from those early years.
School principal Donald Fisher, lovebirds Shane and Angel, bubbly Marilyn Chambers, caring foster mum Pippa Fletcher and many more all became nearly as familiar to many as their own friends and family.
Another one of those names is grumpy old Alf Stewart – at one time married to another soap stalwart, Ailsa – created as one of the show's original 18 characters.
But while many of Summer Bay's residents have since departed or even died – sometimes in real life too, as with tragic Dieter Brummer who played Shane – Alf, along with Marilyn, is still around today, some 35 years later.
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