Actor best known for playing Alec Gilroy, the pompous landlord of the Rovers Return in Coronation StreetThe actor Roy Barraclough, who has died aged 81, forged a memorable television partnership with the comedian Les Dawson as one half of the two old Lancashire gossips Cissie and Ada, before gaining his greatest fame as Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street. Actor and character were poles apart " Barraclough quiet and mod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on June 1, 2017