Just read that Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw) is quitting the soap after 15 years, and is looking towards Hollywood. How many actors and other entertainers have left Britain thinking they could do better, only to be heard of never again. A few that come to mind, Ronan O'Casey, who I have only seen in an episode of 'Murder She Wrote', Mike Winters (of Mike and Bernie Winters), British comedians of the 60s Hope and Keen, and Joe Baker.