Career
He was Tom Henshall, long suffering father of the hairdressing sisters in four seasons of the BBC series Cutting It and Charles Quance, the tailor who has a bumpy romance with one of the seamstresses in three seasons of the classic BBC serial The House of Eliott . He took the lead role of Colin in the feature film Weak at Denise, about a woman who is coaxed to seduce him by her immoral boyfriend to get his money but falls in love (a happy ending) and The Sky in Bloom in which he was Branick Hammond, who is dying from cancer (but that's the least of his problems) and Syrup (which was nominated for an Academy Award for best short life action feature in 1994). A bald man gets a wig and it changes his life.
He has done 145 TV commercials all over the world.
A return to the stage saw him playing Ironside, in An English Tragedy, a new play by Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood. A generation of young adults know him as Mr Tucknott the pompous and terrifying bank manager in the classic Bodger and Badger series on BBCTV.
His previous stage work includes the lead role in Dragon in the Olivier Theatre as a member of the Royal National Theatre, a remarkable and innovative production by the accomplished director Ulz, after working together at Nottingham Playhouse. He was Arturo UI in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , directed by David Gilmore at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and went on to lead roles in repertory for much his early career (including six plays by Shakespeare) having five children in the process with his wife, whom he met at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke in his first job out of Rose Bruford College. He was 23 and she was in the sixth form at a local school and worked as a volunteer usherette.
He has a long connection with the Theatre Royal, Stratford, E15, where with Jeff Teare and Patrick Prior he pioneered a series of political dramas, developing and performing leading roles in satirical attacks on Margaret Thatchers government. The same team produced pantomimes for many years during the 1980s and 90's which set a standard in British Theatre for integrity and quality.
TV work has included spells in Emmerdale and six episodes of Doctors , all different people, three different people in Heartbeat , five different people in The Bill , four different people in Midsomer Murders .
He has also makes pictures and has exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, where he has lived for most of his life.
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