1. Roy Senior Barraclough was an English comic actor.
14 Facts About Roy Barraclough
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Roy Barraclough was best known for his role as Alec Gilroy, the devious, mournful landlord of the Rovers Return in the long-running British TV soap Coronation Street, and for the double-act Cissie and Ada with comedian Les Dawson.
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Roy Barraclough began his career as a draughtsman, taking time off to work as an entertainer in a holiday camp on the Isle of Wight.
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Roy Barraclough later joined the repertory company at Stoke and then Oldham in 1966, appearing alongside Barbara Knox and Anne Kirkbride, who later both became colleagues on Coronation Street.
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Roy Barraclough had a significant role playing Mr Cobbledick in the children's TV show Pardon My Genie.
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Roy Barraclough made guest appearances in the sitcoms The Lovers, Rising Damp and George and Mildred.
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Roy Barraclough returned permanently in 1986 and a marriage to Bet Lynch was included in his character's narrative.
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Roy Barraclough was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1987 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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Roy Barraclough was later to appear in a sitcom, Mother's Ruin, in which he played a bachelor dominated by his belligerent mother.
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Roy Barraclough made a guest appearance in Last of the Summer Wine, playing opposite both Bryan and his friend Kathy Staff, and appeared in a variety of TV shows including Casualty, Peak Practice and Funland.
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On stage, Roy Barraclough appeared in musicals, straight drama and Christmas shows and pantomimes.
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Roy Barraclough created the role of Santa in the lavish stage musical Santa Claus, which he reprised for several Christmases.
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Roy Barraclough was gay, and was in a long-term relationship with Mark Llewellin.
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Roy Barraclough died aged 81, at the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 1 June 2017, following a short illness.