Keith Appleyard
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| Coronation Street character | ||||||||||||
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| Keith Appleyard | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 2005-2006 | |||||||||||
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| Status | Widowed | |||||||||||
| Home | Bournemouth | |||||||||||
| Occupation | Paper deliverer/Taxidermist | |||||||||||
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Keith Appleyard, played by Ian Redford, was a fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street.
Keith is the father of Angela Harris. When she and her family lived in Sheffield, she witnessed a murder. Keith persuaded his daughter to tell the truth and testify against the criminals at the trial, which resulted in the Harris family having to move to Weatherfield under the name of Nelson in witness protection.
Keith first appeared in Coronation Street three years later in 2005 to help his daughter after her husband Tommy had been murdered. He stayed in Weatherfield for support and ended up looking after his grandchildren Katy and Craig after their mother was arrested for the murder of their father. Katy (the real killer) committed suicide after the guilt got too much for her, and Angela was imprisoned for helping Katy cover up the crime. Keith decided to move to Coronation Street to look after Craig, rather than taking Craig back to Sheffield with him, as he felt Craig had suffered enough - plus, Weatherfield was closer to Angela's prison than Sheffield was.
Since moving in, Keith has started dating Audrey Roberts, who is his exact opposite in many ways. Keith is always watching the pennies, and has recently taken up a paper round to earn some extra money. His hobbies include taxidermy.
Keith is widowed, his wife having died between 2002 and 2005. Angela had telephoned her mother on Christmas Day 2002, but she had died by the time of Keith's arrival in 2005.
Archie Shuttleworth has returned to the Street, who left because Audrey turned him down with his proposal (he asked her to marry him), which left Keith feeling jealous.
After splitting up with Audrey because of his jealousy, Keith is now enemies with Charlie Stubbs. After Charlie worked on some of Keith's house tiles but then Keith refused to pay as the bill was too expensive. Charlie decided to get revenge so removed Keith's tiles completely and said unless Keith pays he will put them back on. Keith rang the police but the police said it wasn't really a police matter.
One day, Keith was delighted when he saw Charlie putting the tiles back on the roof, thinking that Charlie had finally given up with his game. While having a drink in the Rovers, Charlie came in and told Keith, 'Well, I liked your roof so much that I decided to buy the house. Your landlord didn't take much persuading.' Keith blustered that the landlord would have told him but Charlie said that he asked Keith's landlord to leave that to him. Charlie's girlfriend Tracy Barlow was delighted.
Keith now says that if one day Charlie does chuck him and his grandson Craig out they have a nice home waiting for them in Sheffield. Craig has said that he doesn't want to go though as he lives in Coronation Street and he loves his girlfriend Rosie who lives there too.
One day, after Keith had an angina attack, the doctor told him it was a warning and things were going to have to change. So Keith told a shocked Craig that they were going to stay in Bournemouth with Keith's sister Marjorie.
Craig was determined that he wasn't to leave the street but Keith and Sally finally persuaded him in the end and they left the street. Keith later returned to the street when Craig ran away from Bournemouth and refused to returned there.
