Frederick Feast (5 October 1929 – 25 June 1999) was a British television actor, best remembered for playing the role of Fred Gee in 552 episodes of Coronation Street between 1976 and 1984.
Also in 1975, Feast appeared in the Granada Television daytime drama, Crown Court, playing the role of Frank Chadwick, a farmer whose wife stands trial on a charge of malicious wounding.
[4] One of his best known storylines was when Fred took barmaids Bet Lynch and Betty Turpin out for a picnic in Annie Walker's prized Rover 2000 in 1983, only to see the car roll into a lake.
Podmore was reportedly furious at Feast's refusal to sign a new contract after allegedly agreeing verbally to do so, or to allow storyline writers extra time to write his character out.
When the character's wife Eunice (Meg Johnson) made a brief return to the show in 1999, she mentioned that Fred had died of a heart attack in the interim.
[5] After leaving Coronation Street, Feast went on to play knackerman Jeff Mallock in a three-year stint in the BBC1 series All Creatures Great and Small, taking over from Frank Birch.
The same year he took on the small role of pigeon fancier Arthur in the hit film Little Voice, set in Scarborough and starring Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor, Michael Caine and Jim Broadbent.