John Savident: Bellowing butcher Fred Elliott in Coronation Street

• From ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, from Shakespeare to sitcom, Savident was the epitome of the versatile actor, writes Anthony Hayward. Being able to switch from the humdrum to the eccentric, and possessing a mastery of voices and speech patterns, he was a natural in all of his varied roles