Elsie Tanner leave Weatherfield. Her final appearance was screened at the beginning of 1984. Pat Phoenix died of lung cancer in September 1986 at the age of 62. Elsie, her character, died in a car crash, at the age of 81 in 2004 after leaving Weatherfield 20 years earlier, although it was not mentioned in the show until 2011. Elsie Tanner Elsie Tanner (also Grimshaw, Howard and Gregory) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", played by Pat Phoenix from the series inception in 1960 to 1973 and from 1976 until 1984. Elsie Tanner was one of
Jim McDonald (Coronation Street) Jim McDonald (Coronation Street) Jim McDonald is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", played by Charles Lawson. He made his first on-screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 27 October 1989. He appeared as a regular character from 1989–2000, following this, Jim made guest appearances in November 2003, December 2004 and May 2005, making another return from November 2007 to January 2008, and returning again in August 2009, November 2010, March 2011, from August to October 2014, and from September to October 2018. Jim's storylines have included him and his wife Liz (Beverley Callard) losing