Actor who played Ken Barlow’s younger brother in Coronation Street and appeared in Brookside, Heartbeat and Emmerdale The actor Alan Rothwell, who has died aged 89, found fame playing Ken Barlow’s younger brother, David, in Coronation Street. He was seen in the TV soap’s first episode, on 9 December 1960, as the cheerful, likable engineering firm apprentice, mending his bicycle in the Barlows’ living room, just as Ken’s new girlfriend arrived. While his university educated brother would fail to fulfil his highbrow ambitions, David quickly achieved his. He became an amateur footballer with the fictional Weatherfield County, scoring on his debut, then moved to the bright lights of London when a League team signed him in mid-1961. This departure from the programme gave Rothwell a chance to get wider television experience. He walked straight into a leading role in Top Secret (1961-62) as Mike, the nephew of a British agent (William Franklyn) who teams up with an Argentinian business executive (Patrick Cargill) in Buenos Aires to fight crime. He had two short stints in Coronation Street for “visits home” over the next few years before returning permanently in 1965. David Barlow’s profes
May 15, 2026 → May 15, 2026
Actor who played Ken Barlow’s younger brother in Coronation Street and appeared in Brookside, Heartbeat and Emmerdale The actor Alan Rothwell, who has died aged 89, found fame playing Ken Barlow’s younger brother, David, in Coronation…
Read original at The Guardian →1 updates from 1 source.
Actor who played Ken Barlow’s younger brother in Coronation Street and appeared in Brookside, Heartbeat and Emmerdale The actor Alan Rothwell, who has died aged 89, found fame playing Ken Barlow’s younger brother,…
Read original at The Guardian →What this story stands on. Tier 0 is a primary record or the subject's own words; higher tiers must be attributed, never stated as bare fact.
Actor who played Ken Barlow’s younger brother in Coronation Street and appeared in Brookside, Heartbeat and Emmerdale The actor Alan Rothwell, who has died aged 89, found fame playing Ken Barlow’s younger brother, David, in Coronation…
View source →Tier key: T0 = Primary source · T1 = Wire · T2 = Outlet report · T3 = Commentary
Google is defending a £1. 2B claim at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed…
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA)…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. held its spot as the world’s most advanced bank in artificial intelligence, widening its lead over rivals in an annual ranking that shows AI deployment across…
The inaugural VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards ceremony, hosted by Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie, was held on June 18, 2026, at the VivaTech conference in…
Iran used three men to spy on London-based journalists critical of the country’s regime intending to violently attack them, prosecutors said at the start of a criminal trial.
Labour could pay price for disappearance of parks and playgrounds around Euston station When HS2 construction began around London’s Euston station in 2017 and people living nearby…
