William Roache

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William Patrick Roache MBE (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor.

Since its first episode on December 9, 1960, Ken Barlow has appeared in Coronation Street.

He is ranked in Guinness World Records as the longest-serving male television actor in a steady role.

Early life

Roache was born in Nottingham's Basford suburb, as the son of Joseph William Vincent Roache, a surgeon, and Hester Vera, Albert and Mary Zillah Waddicor's daughter. Albert Waddicor was a violent drinker, but his wife, Sophie, operated a restaurant and tea rooms at Alton Towers, which had been opened as a tourist attraction but not at that time, not at a theme park. Roache grew up in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where he attended a Steiner school established by his grandfather, a surgeon and surgeon, in the family's garden. His grandfather, as well as philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner's teachings, were interested in topics including theosophy, esotericism, hypnotism, theomogenesis, misticism, hypnotism, and homoeopathy. Roache received his education at Rydal School later in life. He joined the British Army and was sent to the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1953. He had been promoted to lieutenant rank a year later. He was first ranked captain when he was drafted in 1956. He suffers from tinnitus after an exploding mortar round during his military service.

Personal life

Roache lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Linus Roache, his eldest son, by his first wife Anna Cropper (1938-2007), is an actor. Vanya, the couple's daughter, was also born in 1967-1978-1977. Roache and Cropper were married from 1961 to 1974, from 1961 to divorcing in 1974. Sara McEwan Mottram, Roache's second wife, married him in 1978. She died at the age of 58 on February 7, 2009 at their house. He had a daughter named Verity (born 1981) and a younger son, actor James Roache (christened William; born 1985). Edwina, Edwina's second daughter, died on November 16, 1984, at the age of 18. Emma Jesson, a weather reporter from 2010 to 2012, was dated by Roache.

In 1991, Roache won a libel lawsuit against The Sun, which had described him as stifled and unpopular among his Coronation Street coworkers. He was awarded £50,000 in damages by the jury, the same amount that he had forfeited in an out-of-court settlement offered by the newspaper before the trial. He was liable for the £120,000 charges incurred as a result. In 1998, Roache's law firm was sued for negligence, but it was declared bankrupt in April 1999.

In stark contrast to his character Ken Barlow, who has been portrayed as a Labour supporter, Roache is a backer of the Conservative Party. Sir John Major was Britain's first post-war prime minister in 2007, and he defended him as a guest on Daily Politics in 2007. In the 1997 election against Martin Bell, he backed Conservative MP Neil Hamilton. During the 2011 referendum, Roache protested instant-runoff voting in favor of first-past-the-post voting.

In 2006, Roache became a patron of Sustained Magic Ltd, an Ilkeston-based manufacturing company.

Roache is a vegetarian, who claims he "doesn't want animals being killed" for him. He wrote about his fascination with astrology in his biography, which he learned by taking a correspondence course at the Faculty of Astrological Studies. He impressed members of the Coronation Street cast by the acuity with which they had interpreted their astrological charts for them.

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Career

Roache went back to acting after being out of service. He appeared in many stage plays, then had uncredited roles in several films, and then won small parts in television serials, including Knight Errant Limited and Skyport. In the Norman Wisdom film The Bulldog Breeder, he appeared as a space center operator. Roache played the leading role in a Granada Television show called Marking Time, which premiered on ITV in 1961, just short of joining Coronation Street at the start of the program. In a 2007 interview with the Liverpool Post, Roache recalled "I served as a young soldier in Germany who fraternized with a German girl, but I can't remember how it ended." It was certainly coveted, and I had hoped to track it down, but there is no evidence of it," he said. "But Tony Warren, who created Coronation Street, saw it and thought I was correct for Ken Barlow," he said.

Roche appeared on October 16, 1985, only weeks before his first appearance on Coronation Street, on the 25th anniversary of his debut on Coronation Street, he appeared on television show This Is Your Life. Ken and Me, Roache's first autobiography, was published in 1993, chronicling his life both on and offscreen. Roache was the recipient of the British Soap Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as Ken Barlow in 1999. Roache appeared in "Catch a Falling Star" as Perry Como, on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes in 2003. He appeared in Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon in September and October 2005 as a celebrity contestant. He was the champion of The Golden Shot (a remake), progressing to Bullseye, where he was defeated by television presenter Vernon Kay. He later joined All Star Family Fortunes, hosted by Kay, but lost by two points to his opponents.

Soul on the Street, Roache's 2008 autobiography, contains a significant amount of philosophical text, in which Roache admits to having faith in the afterlife. He revealed on BBC Breakfast in October 2008 that he had a two-year feud with actor Pat Phoenix, a fellow Coronation Street artist, in which they did not know each other: it resulted from her changing a scene involving the two of them. However, they did reconcile and became good friends. 50 Years on the Street, A memoir focusing on Roache's time in Coronation Street, was published in 2010 to coincide with his 50th year playing Barlow.

Piers Morgan talked with Roache on Thursday for his ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories, which was released on April 13, 2012. Roache appeared on BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" on September 26, 2012, focusing on his family history. He is now Coronation Street's longest serving actor, having appeared in the cast from the first episode. In 2018, Roache's book Life and Soul: How to Live a Long and Healthy Life was published, in which Roache discusses his personal philosophy and life experiences.

Roache is now the world's longest-serving television actor in a regular role (as of March 2018, Don Hastings had appeared in As the World Turns, the American soap opera, in which Don Hastings had been playing Bob Hughes since October 1960 without a break.

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