Tommy Boyle was born 3 May, 1948 in Manchester. He is an English actor who played two roles in Coronation Street. The first, in the 1970s was Frank Bradley who was the criminal on and off lover of Bet Lynch and in the early 1990s he played Deirdre Barlow's lover Phil Jennings.
After a period working as a Docker he turned to acting and has appeared in many television programmes over the years including Brookside, The Bill, Taggart, Hard Cases, Coasting, House of Cards, Watching, Capstick's Law and Bulman.