Mike Baldwin (Coronation Street) This was one of those rare times he caught Mike off-guard." Mike was shown to get revenge on Ken, though it took a further four years before he could do so on-screen. In a scene which aired in 1990, Mike punched Ken, knocking him over a table in the Rovers Return public house. Briggs has suggested that he and Roache became old hands at doing on-screen fistfights, and that both really enjoyed doing the stunts. According to Briggs, no choreographers were ever used. In 1998 one incident left Briggs with an injury after he fell backwards. Mike and Ken were
Peter Baldwin (actor) Peter Baldwin (actor) Peter Francis Baldwin (29 July 1933 – 21 October 2015) was an English actor best known for his role of Derek Wilton in the British soap opera "Coronation Street". Peter was born in Chidham, near Chichester, Sussex where his father was a primary school headmaster and his mother a teacher. He attended Horsham Grammar School and then did National Service in the army. His introduction to the theatre came during World War II when his parents took him to see a Chichester Festival Theatre production of "Peter Pan" starring Ann Todd and Alastair Sim. After training to