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William Roache (William Patrick Roache) was born on 25 April, 1932 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK, is an actor,soundtrack. Discover William Roache's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

Popular As William Patrick Roache
Occupation actor,soundtrack
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April, 1932
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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William Roache Height, Weight & Measurements

At 92 years old, William Roache height is 5' 9" (1.75 m) .

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Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Who Is William Roache's Wife?

His wife is Sara Roache (1978 - 7 February 2009) ( her death) ( 3 children), Anna Cropper (1961 - 1974) ( divorced) ( 2 children)

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Wife Sara Roache (1978 - 7 February 2009) ( her death) ( 3 children), Anna Cropper (1961 - 1974) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
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William Roache Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is William Roache worth at the age of 92 years old? William Roache’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated William Roache's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Timeline

1938

His eldest son, by his first wife Anna Cropper (1938-2007), is actor Linus Roache (born 1964).

1950

Was a contestant on Ant and Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a part of ITV's 50th birthday celebrations.

1953

Roache 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.

1956

He left the British Army in 1956 with the rank of captain. Due to an exploding mortar round during his military service, Roache suffers from tinnitus. After leaving the army, Roache turned to acting. He appeared in various stage productions, then had uncredited roles in several films, and later small parts in television serials including Knight Errant Limited and Skyport. He played the minor role of a space centre operator in the Norman Wisdom film The Bulldog Breed.

1959

First acting job with Unicorn Players at Princes Theatre Clacton in 1959 with John Kendall and Helen Blackwood among others. Summer season repertory. Roache was born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, the son of Hester Vera (née Waddicor) and Joseph William Vincent Roache. He grew up in nearby Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where he attended a Steiner school set up by his grandfather in the garden of the family home. His Freemason grandfather was interested in such things as hypnotism, theosophy, spiritualism, homoeopathy and esotericism, and the teachings of philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner. Roache was later educated at Rydal School which was also attended by his son Linus.

1960

William Patrick "Bill" Roache MBE is an English actor. He has played Ken Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street since its first episode on 9 December 1960. He is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving living television actor in a continuous role.

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.

1961

The couple were married from 1961 until their divorce in 1974.

1964

Father of Linus Roache (born 1964) and Vanya Roache (born 1967) by his first marriage and also father of Verity Elizabeth Roache (born 1981), Edwina Roache (born 1982, died 1984 of a virus) and James Roache (born William James Roache in 1986) from his second marriage.

1967

The couple also had a daughter, Vanya (born 1967).

1970

Roache is a spiritualist and was photographed practising druid rituals in the 1970s.

1978

Roache married his second wife, Sarah Mottram, in 1978.

1981

With Sarah, he had a daughter named Verity (born 1981) and a younger son, the actor James Roache, christened William (born 1985).

1983

A second daughter, Edwina, died aged 18 months after her birth on 26 April 1983 from acute bronchial pneumonia on 16 November 1984.

1985

On 16 October 1985, just weeks before the 25th anniversary of his debut on Coronation Street, he appeared as the special guest on the TV show This Is Your Life. With the departure of Pat Phoenix the previous year, he was the show's last remaining original cast member by this stage.

1991

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 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.

1997

He backed disgraced ex-Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in the 1997 election against Martin Bell.

1998

Roache sued his law firm for negligence in 1998, and was declared bankrupt in April 1999. Roache is a supporter of the Conservative Party.

1999

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

2001

Roache was awarded an MBE in the 2001 New Years Honours.

2003

In 2003, Roache appeared on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Perry Como singing the song "Catch a Falling Star".

2005

In September and October 2005, he appeared as a celebrity contestant in Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon. He was the winner of The Golden Shot remake, progressing through to Bullseye where 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.

2006

Roache became patron of the Ilkeston-based production company Sustained Magic Ltd in 2006. Roache is a vegetarian because he "doesn't want animals being killed for him". 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.

2007

In 2007, as a guest for Daily Politics, he championed Sir John Major as Britain's greatest post-war prime minister.

2008

Roache's 2008 autobiography is entitled Soul on the Street. It focuses on many of his life experiences and contains a significant amount of philosophical content in which Roache affirms his belief in the afterlife.

In October 2008, Roache revealed on BBC Breakfast that he had a two-year feud with fellow Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix, during which they did not speak to one another. This was over her changing of a scene involving the two of them. However, they did reconcile and became good friends.

2009

She died suddenly on 7 February 2009 at their home at the age of 58.

2010

He was played by his son James Roache in The Road to Coronation Street (2010).

2012

On 13 April 2012, Piers Morgan interviewed Roache for his ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

On 26 September 2012, Roache was featured on the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, researching his family history. Roache lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

He predicted that the world would go through a fundamental change on 12 December 2012 and "move to a higher vibration". During an investigation and trial, Roache's character Ken Barlow was written out of Coronation Street.

2014

However following Roache's acquittal he resumed filming on Coronation Street in June 2014, and returned to the screen on 4 August of that year.

2017

Roache is now the world's longest-serving television actor in a continuous role (as of July 2017) after the cancellation of the American soap opera in 2010 As the World Turns, where Don Hastings played Bob Hughes since October 1960 without a break.

2020

As of 2020 he is the longest serving, living television actor in a continuous role in the whole world. He is the longest serving soap actor in the world ever, acting and appearing in the same role uninterruptedly since the first episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street (1960) was made and broadcast in 1960. Appeared and/or credited in an average of 25 episodes per year of the soap for 60 years.