Coronation Street Elsie and Bet. Other recurring archetypes include the war veteran such as Albert Tatlock (Jack Howarth), Percy Sugden (Bill Waddington) and Gary Windass (Mikey North), the bumbling retail manager like Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe), Reg Holdsworth (Ken Morley), Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden), quick-tempered, tough tradesmen like Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson), Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson), Tommy Harris (Thomas Craig) and Owen Armstrong (Ian Puleston-Davies), and the perennial losers such as Stan and Hilda, Jack and Vera, Les Battersby (Bruce Jones), Beth Tinker (Lisa George) and Kirk Sutherland (Andrew Whyment). Villains are also common character types such as Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford),
Who Attacked Ken? Who Attacked Ken? "Who Attacked Ken?" is a storyline from the ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street". The story began on 27 March 2017, during an episode in which the show's longest-serving character, Ken Barlow (William Roache), is pushed down the stairs by an unknown assailant. The planning of the storyline and filming the episodes remained a secret until the after the first episode was broadcast. ITV released a poll to the "Coronation Street" website so fans could share their thoughts of who pushed Ken. Fans and viewers used the poll, with the majority's thoughts of the attacker was Ken's grandson