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Arthur Leslie (born Arthur Scottorn Broughton 8 December 1899 – 30 June 1970) was a British actor who was born in Newark Nottinghamshire but moved to Lancashire at an early age. His first job was in 1916 at the Old Queen’s Theatre in Farnworth and he earned great fame playing genial Rovers Return Inn landlord Jack Walker on Coronation Street from 1960 to 1970. Leslie died of a sudden heart attack on 30 June 1970 six days after his final Coronation Street episode was broadcast.