Laurie Frazer was the manager of the Viaduct Sporting Club in Coronation Street in 1964 and briefly the boyfriend of Elsie Tanner, whom he hired as a croupier at the club. Laurie's areas of expertise were business and showbusiness; he was the partner of talent agent Lenny Phillips and the pair often divided responsibilities between their offices in London and Manchester. His wife, Rosemary Frazer, was tolerant of his many extramarital affairs but Laurie didn't always tell his girlfriends that he was married.