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Bruce Jones (born 24 January 1953, Collyhurst, Manchester, United Kingdom) is a British actor best known for his role as cab driver Les Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street. His real name is Ian Roy Jones, but took the name of his father. He was the oldest of six children, his father a steel erector and his mother Irene a factory worker. During his school life he appeared in plays from the age of five.

At sixteen Bruce gained an apprenticeship as a pipefitter, but later became a pipefitter then a fireman and a dairy worker. He later trained at the Manchester Schoool of Theatre. Bruce went on to become a successful compere on the Northern club circuit forming a double act with a friend to become "Clark and Jones". In 1977, Bruce and a friend discovered the body of murdered prostitute Jean Jordon, a victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe in allotments in Manchester. In 1993, Bruce gained his big break playing the lead role of Bob Williams in the Ken Roach film Raining Stones. In 1997, he had small parts in the hit film The Full Monty
and in the Shane Meadows film Twenty Four Seven.

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