to play the scene. Alf Roberts made his last appearance on New Year's Day 1999, dying peacefully on screen in his sleep, watched by more than 18 million viewers. He received a standing ovation from the cast on set. Mosley recorded his final scenes on 4 December 1998, and died six weeks later from a heart attack. Mosley also appeared with the Coronation Street cast in the 1989 Royal Variety Performance, and a 1990 LWT special, Happy Birthday, Coronation Street!, hosted by Cilla Black celebrating 30 years of the soap. Other roles Mosley made his screen debut in the film A Kind of Loving (1962). He also appeared in Get Carter (1971) playing local gangster Cliff Brumby. He is famously killed by Jack Carter (Michael Caine), who beats him up and throws him from the roof of the Trinity Square multi-storey car park in Gateshead, after discovering Brumby's involvement in his brother's death. He played alien dignitary Malpha and a Prop Man on a film set in the Doctor Who serial The Daleks' Master Plan in 1965 and made two appearances in The Avengers. Mosley also had small roles in Z Cars, Crossroads, A Family at War and as the pub landlord in Queenie's Castle. Mosley performed alongside Arthur Haynes, Harry Worth and Dick Emery in their television shows. In addition, he appeared in commercials for Watney's, alongside Morecambe and Wise, in an advertisement for Albert's Crisps, as well as using his stunt skills to swing from a huge chandelier, sword in hand, in an unscreened advertisement for a cereal. In October 1997, he was the subject of This is Your Life, being surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Coronation Street. The episode went out on 3 November. Tributes were paid by actor Paul Shane and actress Kathy Staff. He was joined by the cast of Coronation Street. Fight arranger While performing in repertory theatre, Mosley used the fencing skills he learned in the RAF to direct the fights in a production of Othello, in Perth, and at the Theatre Royal, York, for Henry IV. He fenced with Terence Stamp in the film Far from the Madding Crowd, and taught fencing in schools around Leeds. Mosely was also a fight director, and coached Robert Hardy, Tom Courtenay and Neil Diamond, who needed to look like a fencer for a photo-session. He was a founder member of the Society