- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Aubrey Conway Howarth
- Height1.61 m
- Jack spent over 60 years in acting starting at the age of 12 playing children's parts with Churchills Minstrels in The Happy Valley, Llandudno. He then spent many years with Leslie Henson's company and was in 18 films and some 100 television programmes including the first play from Granada before taking on the role of Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street on 9 December 1960. He was married to Betty and had a son John- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5
- SpouseBetty Murgatroyd(July 1929 - March 31, 1984) (his death, 1 child)
- Achieved success as Maggs the gardener in BBC Radio's long-running weekday serial "Mrs Dale's Diary" on the Light Programme, whom he played for 14 years. No recordings of any of these performances are known to have survived, however.
- At his own instigation, wore a false moustache as Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street (1960).
- When asked by an Independent Television News researcher in 1982 about when he intended to retire (he was 86 at the time), he is reported to have said that he was too old to retire.
- Began a lifelong involvement with the acting world as a child selling programmes at Rochdale's Theatre Royal. It was in his blood, as his father had been a comedian.
- Following WWII he attempted to set himself up as a performer of light comic songs, self-promoting with the tag, "Jack Howarth, Popular Exponent of Modern Song".
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