Jack KirkbrideJack Kirkbride.

Jack Kirkbride (31 March 1923 to 1 October 2006) was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who played Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1972 to 2014. Kirkbride left school at the age of fourteen to become an apprentice painter and decorator but was called up for the Army at age eighteen, when he began to draw cartoons. He served from 1942 as a transport driver with the Royal Army Service Corps.