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

[3] 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.

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.