Tony Warren, Creator of World’s Longest-Running TV Soap, Dies at 79

2 March 2016 4:01 AM, PST | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

London — Tony Warren, the creator and writer of the world’s longest-running TV soap opera “Coronation Street,” has died at the age of 79.

He was born Anthony McVay Simpson in Salford, U.K. in 1937, and adopted the stage name Anthony Warren as a child actor. After training at Elliott Clarke Theatre School in Liverpool, he was a regular on the BBC radio show “Children’s Hour,” before performing in a number of radio plays.

Warren created “Coronation Street,” which is set in a blue-collar neighborhood in Northern England, when he was 24, in 1960, for Granada. It is broadcast across the ITV network to this day and continues to be a top ratings performer. The show airs three days a week in primetime on flagship channel ITV1.

Actor William Roache, who worked with Warren since “Coronation Street’s” first episode, said the writer was the “father” of the soap, and would be “desperately missed. »

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