Alan Williams (born 1954 in Manchester) appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly in April 1999 as the caretaker who maintained the apartment complex where Julia Stone was said to have resided; and he returned to the programme in July 2001 as Brian Haverstock, caretaker at the Derbyshire campsite where the Croppers, Platts and Websters holidayed.
He spent nine years with the Hull Truck Theatre Company from 1972 and emigrated to Canada in 1981, aged 27, after visiting the country with a one-man play he had written for Truck, The Cockroach Trilogy. Having performed it at the Toronto International Theatre Festival, he was invited to tour the show across Canada for six months and ended up living in the country for fifteen years - initially in Toronto and then in Winnipeg, as an actor, writer and artistic director. During this time, he also appeared in films including Places Not Our Own, The Darling Family and The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati.
Back in the UK, his credits include roles in Wycliffe, The Bill, The Scold's Bridle, Touching Evil, Always and Everyone, Wire in the Blood, Life Begins, Rome, Holby City, Silent Witness, EastEnders, The Crimson Petal and the White, Luther, Doc Martin, Doctors, Utopia, Starlings, Casualty, The Guilty, SunTrap, Father Brown, Chernobyl, The Capture and The Long Call.
Film roles include Among Giants, Elephant Juice, All or Nothing, Heartlands, Bright Young Things, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Vera Drake, Grow Your Own, London Boulevard, Run for Your Wife, The Dreamed Path, Trespass Against Us, Peterloo, Sometimes Always Never and I Was at Home, But.
On stage, he appeared in productions of Urinetown: The Musical, The Crucible, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Krapp's Last Tape, Crave, Peter Pan, Stoning Mary, Decades of Pop, Twelfth Night, The Jew of Malta, War Horse and Angel Meadow.