Biography
Trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes ‘Breaking The Code’ with Derek Jacobi at The Haymarket, ‘One Way Pendulum’ directed by Jonathan Miller at The Old Vic and ‘Toronto’. He played Alan Bennett opposite Susan Hampshire in Bennett’s ‘The Lady In The Van’ for The Theatre Royal, Bath.
He has filmed on Arctic ice floes in ‘Shackleton’ with Kenneth Branagh and in Russia and Ukraine for ‘Sharpe’ with Sean Bean. Comedy series include ‘Just A Gigolo’ with Tony Slattery, ‘The Fast Show’, and ‘Men Behaving Badly’. Film work includes the Oscar winning ‘Shakespeare In Love’.
TV credits
Rated 6.3 out of 10
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026
Rated 8.2 out of 10
Silo
2023
Rated 8.4 out of 10
Ted Lasso
2020
Rated 7.8 out of 10
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019
Rated 7.9 out of 10
Taboo
2017
Rated 8.2 out of 10
The Crown
2016
Rated 7.5 out of 10
Call the Midwife
2012
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Lewis
2007
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Hustle
2004
Rated 7.2 out of 10
Shackleton
2002
Rated 0.0 out of 10
There's A Viking In My Bed
2001
Rated 6.5 out of 10
My Hero
2000
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Vanity Fair
1998
Rated 7.5 out of 10
Midsomer Murders
1997
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Sharpe
1993
Rated 6.7 out of 10
Just a Gigolo
1993
Rated 6.9 out of 10
The Detectives
1993
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Maigret
1992
Rated 10.0 out of 10
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
Rated 6.3 out of 10
ChuckleVision
1987
Rated 7.1 out of 10
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975