Stage After graduation Longmore joined the Leeds Theatre-in-Education Company, and through this met
theatre director David Thacker who gave him his first stage role as the nobleman Ross in
Macbeth performing at The
Old Vic in
Waterloo, London. However many of Longmore's stage performances were in Manchester, playing Cutler in ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
at the Royal Exchange Theatre, and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice
, and Jesse in I Just Stopped By To See The Man'', both at
Bolton Octagon. Longmore also set up The Arden Drama School in Manchester, set up in association with
The Royal Exchange Theatre where he was Head of Acting at the school, and until 1981 he taught in the Drama Department at
Manchester University.
Screen Longmore most famous screen role was on the
soap opera, Coronation Street, starting in 1992, Longmore played Dr McKinnon, his character treated
Don Brennan played by
Geoffrey Hinsliff following Brennan's car accident. He also had a role in
Love Actually (2003) as the associate of the Prime Minister, played by
Hugh Grant. As well as performing in
Coronation Street and
Love Actually, Longmore appeared in
The Bill,
Between the Lines,
Casualty,
Merseybeat,
Waking the Dead and
Cold Feet.
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