Crossroads’ David Moran passes away

Angela Webb and David Moran in Crossroads

The performer, best known as Kevin Banks from 1980 to 1985, has died. The news was provided to the fan club by friend and former colleague Angela Webb who, of course, played Iris Scott at the same time in the series. Angela remained pals with David as well as Lynette McMorrough who played Kevin’s on-screen wife Glenda.

In the serial, the couple struggled to conceive, and the storyline led to ‘soap’s first test-tube baby’ being born in Crossroads in 1984.

The storyline also the subject of punk group The Toy Doll’s track Glenda and the Test Tube Baby. Lyrics include;

“Things were looking gloomy and Glenda she was sad, Kevin had been out with Carol Sands, but Glenda she thought surely, it can’t be that bad if I had a baby…”

In the series, Kevin was a construction worker who wooed Glenda Brownlow. They, by coincidence, married on the 14th May 1981 – forty years ago yesterday.

Later storylines saw Kevin have an affair with Carol Sands – JoAnne Good. The couple also had a real-life dalliance during their time at ATV. Kevin also, as unemployment in the UK soared, struggled to find work, with several failed attempts at different jobs. In the end, job prospects in Canada saw Kevin, Glenda, and baby Katie Louise depart for sunnier charms in 1985.

As well as Crossroads, which he first appeared in briefly in 1976 as a postman, David also appeared on LWT’s children’s series Metal Mickey, BBC One political sitcom Yes, Minster, LWT sketch series Cannon and Ball, and also their education sitcom Mind Your Language.

In 2015 a clip of David as Kevin Banks featured in Russell T. Davies Channel 4 drama Cucumber – Kevin being noted as the soaps’ totty in the programme. Having given up acting he worked in his years after soap for HM Customs and Excise in Kent.

David passed away on April 25th 2021 in Lincoln.

“I have just received the sad news our friend David has passed away. So sorry to have to break the news in this way” – Angela Webb, who played Iris Scott in Crossroads speaking to the Crossroads Fan Club

Tributes have been paid on Twitter.

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  1. I once saw David Moran in a play in jersey where we used 2 go on holiday along with Fred feast Fred Gee from coronation street

    1. For no particular reason I was reminiscing about by school days and I recalled the name of David Moran (who I believe later modelled himself as David X. Moran) as I was at school (KEGS Aston) with him in the 1960s. I googled his name, as one does, and came across this site. I can’t add much but for posterity I should mention that, as one would expect, he was a regular is school plays/musicals (some which were joint productions with King Edward’s Girls School, of which David took much advantage) and he was an outstanding cross-country runner, and a very likeable/popular part of the school community. It probably wouldn’t be considered too insensitive, after 60+ years, to suggest that David’s role model in his teenage years was probably the Greek god Priapus.

      FWIW the name I’ve used below is pseudonymous for obvious reasons.

  2. David was my husbands cousin but lost touch years ago once their Grandmother died and David moved away from Birmingham. We have only just learnt of his passing and would be grateful if anyone could give us any information of his life, did he marry, have children etc. We have very often wondered how he was. Would be extremely grateful.

  3. Sad to hear about David, I lost touch with him a few years ago. He was an old boyfriend of mine back in 1975-77. He was older than he looked but I guess he must have been aged about 70/71 when he died.

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