William Roache

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William Roache
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Roache in 2017
Born
William Patrick Roache

(1932-04-25) 25 April 1932 (age 92)
Basford, Nottingham, England
OccupationActor
Years active1958–present
Known forLongest serving TV soap opera actor
Spouses
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    (m. 1961;div. 1974)​
  • Sara McEwan Mottram
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    (m. 1978;died 2009)​
Children5, including Linus and James
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branch Royal Welch Fusiliers
Years of service1953–1956
Rank Captain

William Patrick Roache (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor, best known for playing Ken Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street . Roache is the longest-serving cast member in Coronation Street, having appeared in the show continuously since its first broadcast on 9 December 1960. He is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving television star in a continuous role. [1]

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Early life

Roache [2] was born in the Basford suburb of Nottingham [3] the son of Joseph William Vincent Roache, a doctor, and Hester Vera, daughter of Albert and Mary Zillah Waddicor. Albert Waddicor was a violent drunk, but his wife was a successful businesswoman, who ran a restaurant and tea rooms at Alton Towers, which had been opened as a tourist attraction - but not at that time a theme park – after the death of the 20th Earl of Shrewsbury. Roache grew up in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where he attended a Steiner school set up by his grandfather, a physician and surgeon, in the family's garden. [4] [5] [6] His grandfather was a Freemason who was interested in such things as theosophy, esotericism, hypnotism, spiritualism, and homoeopathy, as well as the teachings of philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner. Roache was later educated at Rydal School. [7] He joined the British Army and was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1953. A year later, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He left in 1956 with the rank of captain. Due to an exploding mortar round during his military service, he suffers from tinnitus. [8]

Career

After leaving the military, Roache turned to acting. He appeared in various stage productions, then had uncredited roles in several films, and later won small parts in television serials including Knight Errant Limited and Skyport. [9] He played the minor role of a space centre operator in the Norman Wisdom film The Bulldog Breed . Shortly before joining Coronation Street at the beginning of the programme in 1960, Roache played the leading role in a Granada Television play called Marking Time, transmitted on ITV in 1961. In an interview with the Liverpool Post in 2007, Roache recalled "I played a young soldier in Germany who fraternised with a German girl, although I can't remember now how it ended. It was highly prestigious, though, and I have tried to hunt it down but there is no trace of it." [3] He added: "But Tony Warren, who created Coronation Street, saw it and thought I was right for Ken Barlow." [10]

On 16 October 1985, just weeks before the 25th anniversary of his debut on Coronation Street, Roache appeared as the subject of TV show This Is Your Life . [11] Ken and Me, Roache's first autobiography, was published in 1993, covering his life on and off screen. [12] In 1999, Roache was the recipient of the British Soap Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for his role as Ken Barlow. In 2003, Roache appeared on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Perry Como singing the song "Catch a Falling Star". In September and October 2005, he appeared as a celebrity contestant in Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon . [13] He was the winner of The Golden Shot (a remake), progressing through to Bullseye in which he was beaten by television presenter Vernon Kay. He later entered All Star Family Fortunes , hosted by Kay, but lost by two points to his competitors.[ citation needed ]

Roache's 2008 autobiography Soul on the Street contains a substantial amount of philosophical content in which Roache affirms his belief in the afterlife. In October 2008, he revealed on BBC Breakfast he had had a two-year feud with actress Pat Phoenix, a fellow Coronation Street player, during which they did not speak to each other: this stemmed from her changing a scene involving the two of them. However, they did reconcile and became good friends. [14] In 2010, 50 Years on the Street: My Life with Ken Barlow, a memoir focusing on Roache's work on Coronation Street, was published to coincide with his 50th year playing Barlow. [15]

On 13 April 2012, Piers Morgan interviewed Roache for his ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories . On 26 September 2012, Roache was featured in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? , researching his family history. [16] He is currently Coronation Street 's longest-serving actor, having been in the cast from the first episode. In 2018, the book Life and Soul: How to Live a Long and Healthy Life was released, in which Roache shares his personal philosophy and life experiences. [17]

Roache is currently the world's longest-serving television actor in a continuous role (as of March 2018) after the 2010 cancellation of the American soap opera As the World Turns , in which Don Hastings had played Bob Hughes since October 1960 without a break. [18]

Roache's biography, The Times and Life of William 'Bill' Roache: Actor for the Ages, was released to coincide with his 90th birthday on 15 April 2022. [19] [20]

Personal life

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Roache in 2013

Roache lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire. [21] His eldest son, by his first wife Anna Cropper (1938–2007), is actor Linus Roache (born 1964). The couple also had a daughter (1967–2018). Roache and Cropper were married from 1961 until divorcing in 1974. Roache married his second wife, Sara McEwan Mottram, in 1978. She died suddenly on 7 February 2009 at their home, aged 58. [22] With Sara, he had a daughter (born 1981) and a younger son, actor James Roache (christened William; born 1985). A second daughter, died aged 18 months, on 16 November 1984.

In 1991, Roache won a libel action against The Sun , which had described him as boring and unpopular with his fellow Coronation Street stars. He was awarded £50,000 in damages by the jury, the same amount that he had turned down in an out-of-court settlement offered by the newspaper before the case. As a result, he was liable for the £120,000 costs incurred. Roache sued his law firm for negligence in 1998, and was declared bankrupt in April 1999. [23] [24]

Roache is a supporter of the Conservative Party, in stark contrast to his character Ken Barlow, who has been stereotyped as a Labour supporter. In 2007, as a guest for Daily Politics , he championed Sir John Major as Britain's greatest post-war prime minister. [25] He backed Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in the 1997 election against Martin Bell. [26] [27] Roache opposed instant-runoff voting in favour of first-past-the-post voting during the 2011 referendum on the issue. [28]

Roache became patron of the Ilkeston-based production company Sustained Magic Ltd in 2006. [29]

Roache dated weather reporter Emma Jesson from 2010 to 2012. [30]

He wrote about his interest in astrology in his biography, which he learned by taking a correspondence course from the Faculty of Astrological Studies. He said he had impressed members of the Coronation Street cast by the accuracy with which he read their astrological charts for them. [31]

In January 2024, HMRC filed a petition against Roache at the high court for bankruptcy.[ citation needed ]

On 1 May 2013, Roache was arrested by Lancashire Police on suspicion of having raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967, an allegation he denied. [21] [32] [33] The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently announced that he was to be charged with two counts of rape. [34] There was a preliminary hearing in a Magistrates' court on 14 May 2013 [35] and a Crown Court hearing took place on 10 June 2013. [36] On 6 June 2013, Roache was charged with a further five counts of indecent assault against girls aged between 12 and 16. [37] [38] Roache appeared at Preston Crown Court on 2 September and pleaded not guilty to all charges. The full trial started on 14 January 2014 at Preston Crown Court, before Judge Anthony Russell QC. [39] During the trial, one charge was dismissed by the judge citing a lack of evidence. Some details in two witnesses' accounts changed in the course of the trial. [40]

On 6 February 2014, Roache was found not guilty on all charges. [40] [41] Following his acquittal, Roache gave a brief statement saying that there had been "no winners" and expressing his intent to "get back to work". [40] An image of Ken Barlow had been removed from the Madame Tussauds waxwork exhibition in Blackpool due to fears it might be vandalised. [42] The waxwork was returned to the exhibition in February 2014 following Roache's acquittal. [43] Roache resumed filming on Coronation Street in June 2014, and returned to the screen on 4 August of that year. [44]

Awards

In 1999, Roache was awarded the British Soap Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for his role as Ken Barlow.

In March 2007, Roache was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Chester in recognition of his contribution to television. [45]

Roache was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours [46] [47] and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity. [48] [49] [50]

Filmography

YearShowRoleNote
1958 Behind the Mask Uncredited
1960–present Coronation Street Ken Barlow Regular role
1960 The Bulldog Breed Space Centre operatorUncredited
Knight Errant LimitedVarious2 episodes
1961 The Queen's Guards Field Radio OperatorUncredited
1969 All Star Comedy Carnival Ken Barlow
1999 Comic Relief Special - Wetty Hainthropp Investigates
2005 Comic Relief
2011 Ken and Deirdre's Bedtime Stories Coronation Street spin-off series; 10 episodes
2017 The Missing Crown Jewels HimselfPart of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

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