Eugene Roche

For the French playwright, see Eugène Roche.
Eugene Roche
Roche in a scene from The Corner Bar in 1973.
Born
Eugene Harrison Roche

(1928-09-22)September 22, 1928
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 28, 2004(2004-07-28) (aged 75)
Encino, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actor, commercial pitchman
Years active1953–2004
Spouses
  • Marjory Perkins
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1953; div. 1981)​
  • Anntoni Bratman
    ​
    (m. 1982)​
Children9

Eugene Harrison Roche (September 22, 1928 – July 28, 2004) was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials.

Personal life

Roche was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary M. (née Finnegan) and Robert F. Roche, who was at the time serving in the U.S. Navy.[1] He served in the U.S. Army after graduating from high school.[2]

He married Marjory Perkins in 1953. The couple had nine children, including actor Eamonn Roche and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Sean Roche. They divorced in 1981. Eugene Roche remarried in 1982 and remained married to his second wife, Anntoni C. Roche (née Bratman), until his death in 2004.[3]

Career

After playing theater on various stages since 1953, Roche made his Broadway debut in 1961 as a bit player in the play Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole with Darren McGavin and went on to appear in Mother Courage with Anne Bancroft in 1963, and in The White House with Helen Hayes in 1964.[2] Television comedy became his forte with recurring roles on Soap, as Christine Sullivan's father on Night Court, Webster, and Larry Appleton's abusive boss on Perfect Strangers. Roche appeared as Pinky Peterson, one of Archie Bunker's buddies, on several episodes of All in the Family, in mostly comedic episodes. After a memorable performance as a prisoner of war who meets a shocking and sudden end in the film Slaughterhouse Five (1972), he had supporting parts in such feature films as The Late Show (1977), Foul Play (1978), and Corvette Summer (1978).

Roche played dramatic supporting roles as well, often playing deceptively ordinary men who are shown to be capable of ruthlessness, menacing violence or disturbing perversity. In Murder, She Wrote, he played a bad cop who attempts to kill Jessica Fletcher, and as a criminal mastermind posing as a Catholic bishop in the film Foul Play. He appeared in two episodes of Kojak. In 1977, he appeared in "Never Con a Killer" (the pilot episode for The Feather and Father Gang). He played alien Jor Brel in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled "Remember".

He made two appearances on Airwolf (once as Senator William Dietz in the pilot episode "Shadow of the Hawke", and again as Eddie in the episode "Firestorm" in season 2). Roche appeared in five episodes of Magnum, P.I. as Luther Gillis, an old style private eye. He is remembered for his recurring role as the Ajax Dishwasher in a series of television commercials and print advertisements.

He also made a guest appearance in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show as Grandpa Murdock in the first episode, in which he swallowed everyone by accident.

Death

Roche died on July 28, 2004, aged 75, at a hospital in Encino, California, from a heart attack.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Eugene Roche Biography (1928-)". Film Reference. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
  2. ^ a b Vallance, Tom (2004-08-08). "Eugene Roche Obituary". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
  3. ^ "Eugene Roche". NNDB. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
  4. ^ "Eugene Roche, Actor, 75, In TV and Film". The New York Times. 2004-07-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-28.

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