They added: “But it was family and home that ultimately mattered to him most.”
In a statement, ITV added: “His partnership with Lynne Perrie was something rather special and they gave the viewers huge pleasure for many years.”
His many storylines included relationships, affairs, attempted murder and kidnapping.
Hinsliff, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) in 1960, had previously played other characters in Coronation Street in 1963 and 1977.
His family said: “Geoff was a working-class boy from a family of five, who left school in Leeds aged 15 with no qualifications, yet went on to study at Rada with a scholarship and to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“It was an English teacher who encouraged him to act, and all his life he fervently believed in the power of education.”
