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Neville Alfred Morris Buswell (born 20th January 1943 in Prestbury, Cheshire, died 25th December 2019 in Las Vegas, USA) was a British actor best known for playing Jack-the-Lad Ray Langton on Coronation Street. The character of Ray first appeared on the programme in 1966, and was made a permanent fixture in 1968 when he soon became one of the most popular characters on the Street. Neville stayed on the show until 1978, when he suddenly quit acting and moved to Las Vegas, initially working as a dealer at numerous casinos before becoming a mortgage lender.

The character of Ray Langton, as played by Buswell, was also intended to be one of the stars of a proposed comedy spin-off from Coronation Street entitled Rest Assured, which got as far as the recording of a pilot programme in 1972 and which, to date, has not been transmitted.

Neville briefly returned to acting when he reprised the role of Ray for a cameo appearance in the spin-off video Viva Las Vegas! in 1997, almost twenty years after he had last played the part. On a subsequent visit to the United Kingdom, Neville appeared on Coronation Street itself for one last, short stint as Ray in 2005, which saw the character die from cancer.

Thirty-eight years earlier in 1967, shortly after his initial appearances on Coronation Street, he had also featured in the third episode of the Leonard Swindley spin-off Turn out the Lights.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his earlier television credits included ITV Play of the Week, Emergency - Ward 10, Sam and Janet, Love Story, Inheritance and The Gamblers.

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