A young Audenshaw actor was celebrating his first TV role back in 1992.
Lee Hartney, 17, won a part in Wilderness Edge, an ITV children’s series playing a teenage offender sent on an Outward Bound adventure course.
He spent two months in Keswick in the Lake District filming the six-part drama.
The story revolved around a dozen youngsters of different backgrounds, mostly there on holiday but with Lee’s character and three others sent there by the probation service.
Lee described the story as being “all about the conflicts between the kids and how eventually they end up pulling together.”
A member of Oldham Theatre Workshop he had already appeared as an extra in programmes too numerous to mention but Wilderness Edge was his first major role on screen.
Within a year, Lee got his break into prime time TV in the popular Channel 4 soap Brookside as the leader of a bizarre religious cult who preyed on the bereaved and vulnerable. Around the same time he also appeared in two episodes of Cracker. Fast forward a few years, Lee had a spell in Coronation Street and later Emmerdale.
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