Roy Hudd (16 May 1936 – 15 March 2020) was an English comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Hudd made his solo debut on radio in 1959 on "Workers' Playtime". He remains best known for the BBC Radio 2 satirical series "The News Huddlines", which ran from 1975 to 2001.

He made his professional debut as a comedian at the Streatham Hill Theatre on 27 October 1957, in a show in aid of the Sir Philip Game Boys' Club, of which he had been a member. Initially he worked with Eddy Kay, a friend from Croydon who had also been a member of the boys' club, the two billing themselves as "the peculiar pair". In 1958 they joined as Redcoats at Butlin's Clacton working alongside Cliff Richard and Dave Allen.

From 2002 to 2003, he appeared as the undertaker Archie Shuttleworth in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" and subsequently returned for guest appearances in 2006 and 2010; the character died offscreen in December 2018.

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