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Bill Kenwright
Chairman
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Bill Kenwright CBE (born 4 September 1945, in Liverpool,
Merseyside, England) is an actor and producer.
As a young man, he became an actor. He was not spectacularly
successful, though he did hold down a role in Coronation Street
for almost a year, as Gordon Clegg, from April 1968 to March
1969, after brief stints in other shows, such as The Villains and
The Liver Birds. It is said that Gordon Clegg is the only role he
would ever act again, out of love for Coronation Street and its
cast.
Kenwright is now a
successful theatrical producer, best known for the long-running
West End hit Blood Brothers and the record breaking tour of
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other recent
productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down The Wind
at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and now on
Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge - The Musical,
The Night Of The Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons
alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Whistle Down
The Wind, Tell Me On A Sunday, Scrooge - The Musical and This Is
Elvis.
In the year 2000 he was awarded the CBE for his services to film
and theatre. He is currently linked with British actress Jenny
Seagrove.
In 2004 he became Chairman of Everton, the football club he has
supported all his life, succeeding Sir Phillip Carter in the
role, who stepped down from his second stint as Everton Chairman,
a position he had regained after Kenwright's takeover of the club
in 1999.
