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| name = Brian Hibbard | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1946|11|26}} | birth_place = Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2012|06|17|1946|11|01}} | death_place = Cardiff, Wales | occupation = Actor, singer | years_active = 1980 – 2012 | known_for = Being a founding member of The Flying Pickets | children = 3 }}Brian Hibbard (26 November 1946 – 17 June 2012)[1] was a Welsh actor and singer, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original The Flying Pickets.[2] Early life and careerHibbard was born into a working class family in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, and had a socialist upbringing.[3] He was educated at Ebbw Vale Grammar School. After various jobs including teacher, steel worker, barman and chimney sweep, he formed The Flying Pickets with a group of other actors who had practised a cappella singing while travelling by coach to their appearances. He performed two concerts at Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre when touring with The Flying Pickets, and formed a picket line on Top of the Pops at the height of the miners' strike (1984-85). Following the group's success in the early 1980s, Hibbard went on to pursue a career as a television actor, appearing in Coronation Street as garage mechanic Doug Murray, in Emmerdale as Bobby-John Downes, and as Johnny Mac in the Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm as well as the youth drama Pam Fi, Duw?. He was in the 1997 film Twin Town as the self-styled "Karaoke King" Dai Rees. He has also appeared in the drama serial Making Out; in the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen; in comedy in The Armando Ianucci Shows and Satellite City; and in the film Rancid Aluminium. Hibbard appeared in EastEnders from 4 to 8 July 2011 playing Henry Mason, a man who ran a children's home where Billy Mitchell and Julie Perkins were in care. DeathIn 2000, Hibbard was diagnosed with prostate cancer; he died of the disease on 17 June 2012.[4][5] He is survived by his wife, Caroline and their children: Lilly, Hafwen and Cai.[6] References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/brian-hibbard-singer-and-actor-who-formed-the-flying-pickets-7866417.html/|title= Brian Hibbard: Singer and actor who formed the Flying Pickets|date=June 20, 2012|publisher=The Independent'}} 2. ^{{cite book| first= John| last= Tobler| year= 1992| title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years| edition= 1st| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd | location= London| page= 387| id= CN 5585}} 3. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/brian-hibberd-singer-and-actor-who-formed-the-flying-pickets-7866417.html Independent obituary] 4. ^Brian Hibbard dies from prostate cancer 5. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jun/19/brian-hibbard?INTCMP=SRCH Brian Hibbard obituary in The Guardian] 6. ^{{cite web|title=Actor and ex-Flying Pickets singer Brian Hibbard dies|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18489401|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=18 June 2012}} External links
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