Andy Devine is an English actor, primarily on television, whose best known role has been Shadrach Dingle on ITV's longest-running soap opera, Emmerdale. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Shadrach Dingle is a Fictional character on the British Soap opera Emmerdale. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989 is a British Soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972 His credits have occasionally been confused with those of the gravelly-voiced American star character actor Andy Devine (1905–1977). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Andrew Vabre "Andy" Devine ( October 7, 1905 - February 18, 1977) was a rotund raspy-voiced American Character actor
Andy Devine began his acting career in the early 1970s when he was already middle-aged. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. One of his earlier memorably prominent roles was as a gay man in 1999–2000 episodes of the iconic Channel 4 series Queer As Folk. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began
He also performed his Schadrach character on ITV's Harry Hill's TV Burp