- Jack Howarth
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name = Jack HowarthMBE
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birthdate = birth date |1896|02|19|df=yes
birthplace =Rochdale ,Lancashire ,England
deathdate = Death date and age |1984|3|31|1896|2|19
deathplace =Llandudno ,North Wales
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website =Jack Howarth MBE, (
19 February 1896 –31 March 1984 ) was a Britishactor best known for his role asAlbert Tatlock inCoronation Street between 1960 and 1984.Born in
Rochdale ,Lancashire , he was the son of comedian Bert Howarth, and went to school withGracie Fields .As a child he sold theatre programmes at the Theatre Royal, Rochdale and in 1908 at the age of twelve he began playing juvenile roles on stage. Jack ran a small cinema after the breakout of
World War I having being a member of theLancashire Fusiliers during that war.Jack toured the country in theatre performances where he met and married his wife Betty in Hull in July 1929. He made over a hundred television appearances in all after 1947, having run a theatre in
Wales from 1935 onwards.Jack made his
Coronation Street debut in the first episode in December 1960 and appeared in over 1700 episodes until his final appearance on25 January 1984. He hadn't been written out but was having a spell of time away and was due to return to the set in late April 1984. He never got the chance to do so. Jack Howarth died inLlandudno General Hospital on the evening of March 31 1984, aged 88, with his wife and son John at his bedside. He was cremated six days later atColwyn Bay .External links
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