Raised in Battersea and Balham, Pearson first encountered acting while boarding at Woolverstone Hall School before honing his craft at the Central School of Speech and Drama (1977-80). He broke onto the stage in 1984 with Leonard Rossiter in Joe Orton’s Loot and soon became a familiar face on British television, notably as the sardonic Dave Charnley in Drop the Dead Donkey and as Detective Superin…
