Norris Cole was a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Malcolm Hebden.

Hebden had previously played the role of Carlos, Mavis Riley's (Thelma Barlow) Spanish boyfriend, in ten episodes in 1974 to 1975.

A spokesperson for Coronation Street said: "The affected actors were all involved in storylines that were due to run for a finite time.

[9] On 5 January 2009, it was announced that former Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs had been cast in Coronation Street to play Norris's half-brother, Ramsay Clegg.

", Malcolm Hebden replied: ""It was suggested two or three years ago that Andrew Sachs wanted to be my brother and because we had a change of perhaps two producers in that time, it just got lost in the hundreds of storylines we have.

I was talking to our new producer Kim Crowther and said I thought it was a great shame we'd never picked up the Andrew Sachs stuff and she knew nothing of it.

[13] On 5 July 2018, Hebden revealed that he was recovering from a heart attack and had spent most of the previous December in an induced coma.

[14] In October 2018, while appearing on This Morning, Patti Clare who plays Mary Taylor teased a possible return for Norris the following year.

[17] Hebden departed on 7 June 2019, but returned again for Ken Barlow's (William Roache) 80th birthday celebrations on 9 October 2019.

[18] In January 2021, Hebden announced that he had retired the previous year, and stated that he will not be returning to Coronation Street.

[21] Derek Wilton (Peter Baldwin) is surprised when Norris turns up; the man who gave him a lift home from the motorway service station when he missed the coach from London.

Norris develops a reputation as a fusspot and a busybody, but his inquisitive nature sometimes works to advantage, as when he guessed that serial killer Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) was after Emily Bishop's (Eileen Derbyshire) money and wanted her dead.

Only he and Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) realised Richard's true nature, but no one believed them, and it was not until later that the full story emerged.

Norris agrees but is nervous and is shocked by Rita's engagement to Colin Grimshaw (Edward de Souza), and the two share a poignant moment in The Rovers.

He is a great support to Rita when she later calls off the engagement after discovering that Colin fathered a child with a fourteen-year-old girl.

Norris blames Ramsay for their mother's death, stating that the shock of his reappearance in her life caused her demise.

Norris is not pleased when Emily allows Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) and her daughter Amy (Elle Mulvaney) to live with them.

Emily agrees after Tracy ruins Ernest Bishop's (Stephen Hancock) old dancing shoes, thinking that they belonged to Norris.

Norris becomes supportive to Mary after finding out she was raped in her teenage years and conceived a son, whom her mother forced her to give up.

Norris and several residents help Mary find her son Jude Appleton (Paddy Wallace), who turns up to visit her.

Norris leaves to stay with Emily in Edinburgh following her return from volunteering with her nephew Spider in Peru He sells The Kabin to Brian Packham (Peter Gunn) and Cathy Matthews (Melanie Hill), to the fury of Rita.

On 7 June 2019, after a final drink at the Rovers with his friends, Norris leaves Coronation Street for Scotland with Emily's niece Freda Burgess.

In 2020, Norris and Freda move into Stillwaters, a gated retirement community and are joined by Ken Barlow (William Roache) and Claudia Colby (Rula Lenska) for a short time.