Autographs of William Roache

William Patrick Roache OBE (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor. He is 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 since its very first broadcast on 9 December 1960. He is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving television star in a continuous role. More about William Roache

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Current items with a signature of William Roache

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thumbnail*SIGNED* SOUL ON THE STREET by WILLIAM ROACHE - HAY HOUSE - H/B D/W - 2007£6.99logo
thumbnailCoronation Street Legend Signed Autobiography William Roache£9.00logo
thumbnailKen and Me - William Roache SIGNED Ken Barlow 1st Edition Hardback Book£9.99logo
thumbnailSigned William Roache- Ken Barlow- Hardback Book- Ken and Me£12.00logo
thumbnailSigned William Roache- Ken Barlow- Hardback Book- Ken and Me£12.00logo
thumbnailSIGNED; WILLIAM ROACHE; Soul on the (Coronation) Street - 2007-1st, Ken Barlow£14.99logo
thumbnailSoul on the Street by William Roache (Hardcover, 2007) Signed£4.00logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache *Signed* 1st Edition: HB/DJ - 2007: Soul On The Street Coronation£29.99logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache signed book Ken and Me£12.99logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache SIGNED Coronation Street Autobiography Soul On The Street HB£5.99logo
Roache was born in the Basford suburb of Nottingham 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. 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. 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.

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. 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." He added: "But Tony Warren, who created Coronation Street, saw it and thought I was right for Ken Barlow." Read even more about William Roache at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of William Roache

The most expensive item with a signature of William Roache (CORONATION STREET SIGNED SYCAMORE 12BOWL INCLUDING ELSIE TANNER WILLIAM ROACHE) was sold in February 2018 for £88.00 while the cheapest item (Pre Signed Coronation Street William Roache) found a new owner for £0.49 in November 2023. The month with the most items sold (3) was December 2020 with an average selling price of £5.99 for an autographed item of William Roache. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2022 with £20.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was November 2020. In average, an autographed item from William Roache is worth £5.99.

Most recently, these items with a signature of William Roache were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnail*Signed 1993 1st Ed* WILLIAM ROACHE 'Ken and Me' HB (Coronation Street / Barlow)£11.99logo
thumbnail*Signed 1st Edition* WILLIAM ROACHE 'Ken and Me' HB (Coronation Street / Deirdre£6.50logo
thumbnailLIFE & SOUL by WILLIAM ROACHE- signed by the author (SB343)£12.99logo
thumbnailSigned Book Soul Of The Street By William Roache£3.00logo
thumbnailSoul on the Street - William Roache - First Edition - SIGNED - Good - Hardcover£20.00logo
thumbnailSOUL ON THE STREET BK - SIGNED WILLIAM ROACHE.£4.99logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache *Signed* 1st Edition: HB/DJ 2007 Autobiography Soul On The Street£15.00logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache Coronation Street Signed Autobiography Book£4.20logo
thumbnailWilliam Roache signed An Autobiography Soul on the Street£12.99logo
thumbnail William Roache Soul on the Street   SIGNED Book - Good - £5.00logo