• Roy Senior Barraclough MBE (12 July 1935 – 1 June 2017) was an English comic actor. He was best known for his role as Alec Gilroy, the devious, mournful...
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  • character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Roy Barraclough. The character made several appearances in the show as a small-time...
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  • American baseball player Nick Barraclough (born 1951), British radio producer, presenter, musician, and writer Roy Barraclough (1935–2017), English comic...
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  • created and played by the comedian Les Dawson and the comic actor Roy Barraclough on television in the 1970s and 1980s. Cissie and Ada sketches featured...
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  • Gascoine, Anne Gregg, Roy Hudd, Ted Robbins, Barbara Shelley, Gary Wilmot Show 8 (7 December 1989) - Jean Alexander, Roy Barraclough, John Conteh, Andy Crane...
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  • Sally Seddon (Sally Whittaker) in 1986; Bet Lynch married Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough) in 1987; and 1988 saw the marriages of widowed Ivy Tilsley to Don...
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  • uncovering her whereabouts from The Rovers' landlord, Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough), and travels to Blackpool in a bid to prove to the community that...
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  • Thing Called Love, set in Nottingham, which starred Paul Nicholls and Roy Barraclough among others. In 2012 she toured in The Ladykillers, playing the role...
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  • characteristic routines featured Roy Barraclough and Dawson as elderly women, Cissie Braithwaite and Ada Shufflebotham. Barraclough's character Cissie had pretensions...
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  • and included guest stars such as Roy Barraclough, Michael Bates, Daphne Oxenford, Duggie Brown, Joe Gladwin and Roy Plomley. The duo then appeared in...
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  • holiday special that reunited Dawson with his longtime comedy compatriot Roy Barraclough, and Sez Les writer Terry Ravenscroft. It also replaced the Dougie...
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  • Callard has claimed Liz's unique fashion sense stems from Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough) telling her that she could "aerate the space under her chin a bit...
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  • Jacobi also inspired a scene in which two of Alan's friends (played by Roy Barraclough and Paul Copley) vie to be his best man. A teenage version of Alan...
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  • lapdancing club. Meanwhile, the mayor of Blackpool, Onan Van Kneck (Roy Barraclough) has launched a campaign to clean up the town, but is constantly harangued...
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  • You Being Served? The remake starred Jason Watkins, Sherrie Hewson, Roy Barraclough and Justin Edwards. Although Litten was preparing for a whole series...
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  • "Coronation Street star Roy Barraclough dies aged 81". The Guardian. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017. "Coronation Street actor Roy Barraclough dies aged 81"...
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  • university library, is sent by the library attendant 'Sniffer' Hodgson (Roy Barraclough) to search for a Mishnaic tractate for an impatient library patron...
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  • becoming the landlady. However they later sold it to Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough). Vera and Jack moved into Eunice Gee's (Meg Johnson) B&B, and when...
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  • Rangers). 1 June Ernie Ackerley, 73, footballer (South Melbourne). Roy Barraclough, 81, comedian (Cissie and Ada) and actor (Coronation Street). Sir Owen...
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  • Captain Peacock; former Coronation Street actors Sherrie Hewson and Roy Barraclough were cast as Mrs Slocombe and Mr Grainger respectively, and comedian...
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  • Tattersall Joanne Froggatt 1997–1998 Vicky McDonald Helen Warburton 1990–1996, 1998 Chloe Newsome Alec Gilroy Roy Barraclough 1972, 1975, 1986–1992, 1995–1998...
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    Webber and Sarah Brightman 1989 Frank Bruno 1990 Julie Goodyear and Roy Barraclough 1991 Derek Jameson and Judith Chalmers 1992 Lisa Stansfield 1993 Status...
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  • type. Two months later, Len gets tickets from publica Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough) for the opening of the new Victoria Street Working Men's Club and...
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  • episodes. Throughout both series, Hal was played by Ellis Jones, with Roy Barraclough as his long-suffering boss, Mr. Cobbledick. In achieving "magic" effects...
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  • patron of Willow Wood Hospice, where her Coronation Street co-star Roy Barraclough died in 2017. She donated several pieces of jewellery and memorabilia...
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  • Tony Selby, Denis Lill, Mike Grady, Angela Browne, Ralph Michael, Roy Barraclough 21 January 1984 9 Tug of War Paul Wheeler Laurence Moody Alan Lake...
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  • John Castle, Louise Jameson, David Ryall, Una Stubbs, Eleanor Bron, Roy Barraclough A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from...
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    Louise Jameson, Una Stubbs, David Ryall, Eleanor Bron, Nick Burns and Roy Barraclough. It was followed on 25 December 2013 by a screening on BBC2 of a new...
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  • radio act in the 1950s and in the 1970s and 1980s, Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough used this as part of their Cissie and Ada act. Queen Street Mill Notes...
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  • Grainger does appear in the film version of the series released in July 1977 and the character returns for 2016 special (played by Roy Barraclough)....
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