Emerging from Basingstoke, Hampshire, he trained at Taunton School, then at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and spent two years with the Salisbury Playhouse before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and appearing on Broadway in Nicholas Nickleby. Television breakthrough came with Edge of Darkness, leading to parts such as Gustave LaRoche in Chef! and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in the… Read more
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Known for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005 Valkyrie 2008 Doctor Who 2005 Series ★ 8.2 Rome 2005
Newsreader Series ★ 7.9 Inspector Morse 1987
Pathologist ★ 7.3 Conspiracy 2001
Gerhard Klopfer Series ★ 7.6 Lewis 2007
Reverend King Series ★ 8.1 Edge of Darkness 1985
Harcourt ★ 7.2 84 Charing Cross Road 1987
Bill Humphries ★ 6.9 The Man Who Invented Christmas 2017
Chapman Series ★ 8 Sharpe 1993
Runciman ★ 7 A Christmas Carol 1999
Albert Fezziwig ★ 7.5 Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant 1998
Tapling Series ★ 7.3 New Tricks 2004
Michael Meadowcroft Series ★ 7.4 Lovejoy 1986
Gervais Rackham ★ 6.8 Oliver Twist 2005
Mr. Limbkins Series ★ 7.7 Hornblower 1998
Mr Tapling Series ★ 6.9 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune 2003
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen Series ★ 7.5 Cadfael 1994
Canon Eluard Series ★ 7.6 Chef 1993
Gustave LaRoche Series ★ 6.8 Frank Herbert's Dune 2000
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ★ 7.4 Longitude 2000
Dr. Bliss Series ★ 7.1 David Copperfield 1999
Mr. Dick Series ★ 7.2 Minder 1979
Eric Morgan ★ 6.7 The Beautician and the Beast 1997
Ira Grushinsky ★ 6.7 Valmont 1989
Azolan Series ★ 7 Bergerac 1981
Fowler ★ 6.9 Sharpe's Battle 1995
Wagonmaster-General Colonel Runciman Series ★ 6.8 The Bill 1984
Coroner Series ★ 7 Spartacus 2004
Lentulus Batiatus ★ 6.7 Spartacus 2004
Lentulus Batiatus ★ 6.6 The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz 2000
The Inspector ★ 6.6 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987
Bernard Rice ★ 6.6 Funny Bones 1995
Stanley Sharkey Series ★ 6.1 Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant 2023
Alfred Hitchcock ★ 6.3 Freeze Frame 2004
Forensic Profiler Saul Seger Series ★ 5.9 The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2012
Mayor Sapsea ★ 6.2 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1999
Potiphar ★ 5.4 Black Plague 2002
Bishop ★ 6 Personal Services 1987
Harry ★ 6.4 The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain 1995
George Garrad ★ 5.7 Year of the Comet 1992
Ian Series ★ 5.8 Frankenstein 2004
Professor Krempe ★ 5.4 I'll Be There 2003
Graham ★ 5.7 Amnèsia 2002
Doug Chandler ★ 6.2 No Escape 1994
King ★ 6.2 A Life Less Ordinary 1997
Mayhew ★ 5.2 Blackball 2003
Hugh The Sideburns ★ 6.1 The Russia House 1990
Merrydew ★ 5.3 The Fourth Angel 2001
Lewison, MI5 Officer ★ 5.5 Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! 2012
Mr. Peterson's Dad ★ 5.5 The Body 2001
Dr. Sproul ★ 4.5 Town & Country 2001
Peter Principal ★ 3.1 Grizzly II: Revenge 2020
Bernie ★ 5.6 The Black Dahlia 2006
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