Adept at both comedy and drama, character player Eugene Roche is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer.
Father of Eamonn Roche , Brogan Roche , and Sean Roche.
Played famed police detective Eddie Egan in an unsold pilot for a TV series based on him, which was produced in the mid-70s after The French Connection was a hit.
Wrote a book of short stories chronicling people he has met during his life.
Originally selected to play "Arthur Carlson" on "WKRP in Cincinnati" , but was replaced with Gordon Jump.
Trained for the stage at the Actors Workshop in San Francisco.
Persevere, and never allow anything or anyone to deter you from your,passion. The world will cheer you one day and dismiss you the next so,treat fanfare and failure as twins. .
