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Anita Reynolds
''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera created by writer Tony Warren. It was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1970, by order of first appearance. Anita Reynolds Anita Reynolds, played by Elisabeth Sladen, made her first screen appearance on 5 January 1970. ''Coronation Street'' marked Sladen's second television appearance, after previously taking a minor part in an episode of ''ITV Playhouse''. Sladen's character became a love interest for established character Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson (actor), Peter Adamson), "even though the firebrand builder had gone to school with her father." In 2009, Sladen recalled "In Corrie, I played Anita Reynolds, Len Fairclough's new girlfriend, and I was in it for five or six episodes." Anita worked at the Flying Horse pub. When Annie Walker (Coronation Street), Annie Walker (Doris Speed), landlady of the Rovers Return, alienates her customers, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced street in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester. The location was itself based on Salford, the hometown of the show's first screenwriter and creator, Tony Warren. Originally broadcast twice weekly, ''Coronation Street'' increased its runtime in later years, currently airing three 60-minute episodes per week. Warren developed the concept for the series, which was initially rejected by Granada's founder Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Sidney Bernstein. Producer Harry Elton convinced Bernstein to commission 13 pilot episodes. The show has since become a significant part of British culture and underpinned the success of its producing Granada franchise. Currently produced by ITV Studios, the successor to Granada, the seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Howard (Coronation Street)
1969 saw several new characters making their debuts on ''Coronation Street'', including Betty Williams, Cyril Turpin, Janet Reid, the Butler siblings Sandra and Bernard, Alan Howard, Janice Langton, Edith Tatlock and Ada Broadbent. Janice Langton Janice Langton was played by Paula Wilcox. Janice arrived in Weatherfield when she ran away from her probation officer following a sentence for robbery with violence. Her brother allowed her to stay with him at No.9. Whilst there, she offended him by making a pass at his friend and landlord Len Fairclough. Janice was using her growing friendship with Len as a cover for her relationship with Borstal boy Bob Neale, with whom she stole Dave Smith's car. Before Ray replaced Dave's car, Janice and Bob removed £500 cash from it, leading to Ray being suspected of stealing it. Janice was shortly afterwards evicted from No.9. She left Weatherfield for good. When Ray was in hospital in November 1969 recovering from the coach crash in the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ena Sharples
Ena Sharples (also Schofield) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Violet Carson. She appeared in the first episode, broadcast on 9 December 1960, and stayed with the show until 2 April 1980. Development Ena Sharples was the matronly widowed caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, a retired pensioner, she spent much of her time criticising the activities and loose morals of the street's other residents. One of the main characters during the 1960s, she was featured less regularly in the 1970s due to the declining health of actress Violet Carson and was written out in 1980. Almost always wearing a double-breasted overcoat and hairnet, she spent much of her free time in the serial's early years with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst ( Lynne Carol) and Minnie Caldwell ( Margot Bryant), in the snug bar of local pub The Rovers Return Inn, drinking milk stout. Ena particularly criticised Elsie Tanner ( Pat Phoenix), who sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrs Parsons
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Julie Goodyear
Julie Goodyear (' Kemp; born 29 March 1942) is an English retired actress. She is known for portraying Bet Lynch in the long-running ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. She first appeared as Bet for nine episodes in 1966, before becoming a series regular from 1970 to 1995. She returned for eight episodes in 2002 and another seven in 2003. For her role on ''Coronation Street'', she received the Special Recognition Award at the 1995 National Television Awards. She was made an MBE in the 1996 New Year Honours. Early life Goodyear was born on 29 March 1942 in Heywood, Lancashire, to Alice (''née'' Duckworth) and George Kemp, who divorced when Goodyear was six years old. Her mother remarried to William Goodyear in 1949, whom she knew as her father and whose surname she adopted. Goodyear was brought up by her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Duckworth, who died by drowning when Goodyear was thirteen years old. She attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Middleton. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bet Lynch
Elizabeth Theresa "Bet" Lynch (also Gilroy) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Played by Julie Goodyear, the character first appeared on screen during the episode airing on Monday 25 May 1966. Appearing over 25 years, Bet became one of ''Coronation Street's'' icons. Bet first appeared in May 1966, but did not become a regular until 1970. In October 1995, Goodyear made a permanent departure in a storyline which saw Bet unable to raise the funds to purchase the Freehold of the Rovers Return and subsequently flee Weatherfield. She returned in June 2002 in what was intended to be a permanent return for the character. However, Goodyear quit after just two weeks, this being put down to the heavy work schedule. The following year, Goodyear returned temporarily in a storyline that accommodated the return of Beverley Callard as Liz McDonald. Bet last appeared in November 2003. Bet was initially made a barmaid at the Rovers Return Inn and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roache
William Patrick Roache (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Ken Barlow in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and is the longest-serving cast member in the series, 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. He is the longest serving television soap opera actor, however Patricia Greene holds the record for the longest serving soap opera actor in all mediums. She has played Jill Archer in radio series The Archers since 1957. Early life Roache was born in the Basford suburb of Nottingham the son of Hester Vera (née Waddicor) and Joseph William Vincent Roache, a doctor. His mother was the daughter of Albert and Mary Zillah Waddicor, 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 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Barlow
Kenneth "Ken" Barlow is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by William Roache. He was created by Tony Warren as one of ''Coronation Street''s original characters and December 2020 marked Ken's 60th anniversary onscreen. He debuted in the soap's first episode on 9 December 1960. Having appeared in the role continuously since that date, Roache is the longest-serving actor in a televised soap opera, and was honoured at the 2010 ''Guinness World Records'' ceremony for the achievement, having surpassed actor Don Hastings from the American soap opera ''As the World Turns'', who previously held this title. Roache stated in 2010 that he had no plans to leave the role and would remain in ''Coronation Street'' for as long as the producers would have him. In November 2020, Roache was again presented with the ''Guinness World Record'' for the longest-serving TV soap star in the world for his six decades in ''Coronation Street''. Ken Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hancock
Philip Stephen Hancock (24 November 1925 – 1 November 2015) was a British television and stage actor, musical director and pianist. He was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham and attended the Chorister School, Durham and the Darlington Grammar School before reading music at Durham University as a mature student. He served as a radio engineer in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He was best known for his role as Ernest Bishop in ''Coronation Street''. Introduced as wedding photographer Gordon Bishop in a 1967 episode dedicated to one of Elsie Tanner's marriages, he later re-emerged as the regular character Ernie and played the character from 1969 until being written out in a fatal shooting during a burglary at Mike Baldwin's factory in 1978. Late minor TV roles included appearances in '' Victoria Wood as Seen on TV'' in 1985/1986. He appeared as Mr Lillie in the '' Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)'' episode (9/6) "The Facts of Life" (1988). He was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Bishop
''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1967, by order of first appearance. Steve Tanner Stephen Edward "Steve" Tanner, played by Paul Maxwell, was an old flame of Elsie Tanner's from the war. He returned to Weatherfield in 1967 and rekindled his relationship with Elsie. They married that year and moved back to Steve's hometown in America. In 1968 Elsie returned alone saying her marriage was over. Steve followed Elsie back to the Street but he was pushed down a flight of stairs and killed by Joe Donnelli. Ernest Bishop Ernest Bishop, played by Stephen Hancock, made his first screen appearance on 6 September 1967. Ernest had been educated at Weatherfield Grammar School, and, despite being very academically inclined, he refused a place at Manchester Victoria University, in order to run his own photographic business. Operating under his "professional" name Gordon Bishop, he f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Buswell
Neville Alfred Morris Buswell (20 January 1943 – 25 December 2019) was a British actor, best known for his role as Ray Langton in the ITV Soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Early years Buswell attended Belmont Abbey School near Hereford from 1955 to 1960, and represented the school at rowing and rugby – he was a fast and aggressive open side wing forward – and took part in the thriving amateur dramatics society with leading roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and straight plays such as Patrick Hamilton's ''Rope''. Buswell attended RADA and graduated in 1964. Career He first appeared on ''Coronation Street '' in 1966, leaving that same year. He returned in 1968 and remained in the cast for ten years until he chose not to renew his contract rather abruptly in late 1978. He wanted to move to the United States to be with his wife and her relatives. In the plot line, Ray was written out just as abruptly, leaving his wife Deirdre and young daughter to live in Amster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Langton
Ray Langton is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Neville Buswell. Development Ray Langton's departure in 1978 came due to Neville Buswell quitting acting and later leaving to work in Las Vegas. However, he returned in 2005 for a brief stint, 27 years since he portrayed the character. Neville Buswell is the fourth cast member to have the longest break in ''Coronation Street'', which is a 27-year absence from 1978 to 2005. As of 2011, Philip Lowrie, who played Dennis Tanner, has the record for the longest break between appearances in Coronation Street, having been absent for 43 years. Storylines Ray Langton was born at Number 2 Gas Street. Throughout his childhood, he was in trouble with the police most of the time. An ex- borstal boy, Ray built up a reputation as a troublemaker. He first appeared in the Street in 1966 but was sent away by Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson) after he threatened Lucille Hewitt ( Jennifer Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
