David Daker

Last updated

David Daker
Born
Colin David Daker

(1935-09-29) 29 September 1935 (age 88)
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1963–present

Colin David Daker [1] (born 29 September 1935) is an English actor. [2] He is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon . [3] He also played Tommy Mackay in Only Fools and Horses and Jarvis in Porridge . [4] [5]

Contents

He has made appearances in Minder , Kill Two Birds, Thriller , Hazell and Rising Damp . He played the bandit Irongron in the Doctor Who story The Time Warrior.

In film, he played young Kevin's father in Time Bandits (1981) and the desk sergeant in I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990). [6] [7]

Early life

Bilston-born Daker attended Etheridge Secondary Modern School, now called Moseley Park School, in the West Midlands.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1973 O Lucky Man! Various
1973 The Optimists of Nine Elms Bob Ellis
1974 The Black Windmill MI5 Man
1974 Stardust Ralph Woods
1976 Aces High Bennett
1976 Voyage of the Dammed First Officer
1979 That Summer! Pub Landlord
1981 Time Bandits Kevin's Father
1982 Britannia Hospital Guest Workman
1990 I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle Desk Sergeant

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1964DetectiveThomas YaxleyEpisode: "The Loring Mystery"
1966 King of the River Jack FlynnEpisode: "Keeping the Old Spirit Alive"
1969 ITV Sunday Night Theatre KenEpisode: "Travelling Where?"
1970 Parkin's Patch Det. Sgt. MilburnEpisode: "The Spider's Web"
1971 UFO SHADO Guard (uncredited)Episode: "Flight Path"
1971TrialPriorEpisode: "On the Evidence You Will Hear"
1972 Villains George6 episodes
1969–1972 Dixon of Dock Green Headmaster

Jock

2 episodes
1973Full HouseFedya in On the High RoadEpisode: #1.22
1973 General Hospital UnknownEpisode: #1.63
1973 Hadleigh Ted PriorEpisode: "Gentleman and Players"
1973 Second City Firsts PeterEpisode: "If a Man Answers"
1974The Carnforth PracticeTanker DriverEpisode: "The Aristocrat"
1974Hunter's WalkBarry DawesEpisode: "Villain"
1974Armchair CinemaTusserEpisode: "Regan"
1974 Marked Personal Jack Williams2 episodes
1974Dial M for MurderTonyEpisode: "Recording Angel"
1974 ITV Sunday Night Drama SussexEpisode: "The Ceremony of Innocence"
1975 Churchill's People John BradwaterEpisode: "Shouts and Murmurs"
1975 The Hanged Man Piet HollanderEpisode: "The Bridge Maker"
1975 The Main Chance JacobsonEpisode: "Survival"
1975 The Rough with the Smooth Rudolph CulpepperEpisode: "The Broom Cupboard"
1975Daft As a BrushJack BakerTelevision film
1975 BBC Play of the Month Cpl. HillEpisode: "Chips with Everything"
1975 Thriller Charlie DraperEpisode: "Kill Two Birds"
1975 Softly Softly: Task Force WaltersEpisode: "Dorothy's Birthday"
1976Widowing of Mrs. HolroydMr. HolroydTelevision film
1974–1976Centre PlayJacky Maddison

Max

2 episodes
1976Three Days in SzczecinWorkers' spokesmanTelevision film
1977Eleanor MarxWill Thorne2 episodes
1977 Warship PO AsdaleEpisode: "Counter Charge"
1977 Porridge JarvisEpisode: "Final Stretch"
1977 Rising Damp Mr. BrentEpisode: "That's My Boy"
1967–1977 Z Cars PC Culshaw

Reg Sgt. Milne

84 episodes
1977 The Dick Emery Show UnknownEpisode: #16.2
1977 Target Mike AnsellEpisode: "Vandraggers"
1977BBC2 Play of the WeekMaxEpisode: "The Kitchen"
1978 Hazell Dave RymanEpisode: "Hazell and the Rubber-Hell Brigade"
1978 Holocaust Rudolf HoessEpisode: "Part 4: 1944–1945"
1978 Strangers Roy StephensEpisode: "Right and Wrong"
1979 All Creatures Great and Small Mr. BarrattEpisode: "Puppy Love"
1973–1979 Doctor Who Irongron

Rigg

7 episodes
1979 Charlie Muffin BoltonTelevision film
1979Two PeopleLen Fletcher5 episodes
1979Saint JoanPoulengeyTelevision film
1980 The Enigma Files Major Mike ClarkEpisode: "The Full Flying Carpet Treatment"
1976–1981 When the Boat Comes In Chater

Sid Meek

2 episodes
1981 The Gentle Touch Sam TaylorEpisode: "Doubt"
1981 BBC2 Playhouse AlfEpisode: "The Grudge Fight"
1979–1982 Dick Turpin Captain Nathan Spiker13 episodes
1982 Legacy of Murder MechanicEpisode: "Who Do You Voodoo?"
1982 ITV Playhouse 'Dogfood' Dan MiltonEpisode: "Dogfood Dan and the Camarthen Cowboy"
1982 Only Fools and Horses Tommy MackayEpisode: "No Greater Love"
1983 The First Part of King Henry VI Reignier, Duke of Anjou

Vernon

Television film
1983 The Second Part of King Henry VI Duke of BuckinghamTelevision film
1983 The Third Part of King Henry VI Lord HastingsTelevision film
1983 Richard III Lord HastingsTelevision film
1983 To the Lighthouse Mr. TrevorrowTelevision film
1983 Give us a Break Ron Palmer7 episodes
1984 Crown Court Harry Barber3 episodes
1975–1984 Play for Today Various8 episodes
1984 Moonfleet Elzevir Block6 episodes
1984 Hallelujah! Brother Benjamin

Bob Scratchitt

8 episodes
1968–1985 Coronation Street Gordon Lewis

Basil Griffin

31 episodes
1985Summer SeasonLeo LyonEpisode: "Urban Jungle"
1980–1985 Minder Alex Brompton

Sir Ronald Bates

2 episodes
1981–1985 Juliet Bravo Charlie Pendle

Chris Oldham Colin Bright

3 episodes
1986 Sorry! Byron HadleeEpisode: "The Primal Scene, So to Speak"
1986Love and MarriageMaurice BannisterEpisode: "A Walk Under Ladders"
1987Up LineLeon Targett4 episodes
1987 Screen Two Mr. PlantEpisode: "The Children of Dynmouth" (Novel: "The Children of Dynmouth")
1988Blind JusticeDet. Insp. GeeEpisode: "A Death in the Family"
1989 The Woman in Black Josiah FrestonTelevision film
1995 Crown Prosecutor Ben Campbell10 episodes
1986–1995 Boon Harry Crawford93 episodes
1995 Resort to Murder Sam Penny4 episodes
1995Pigeon SummerUncle Charley
1996The VetGerry LeadbetterEpisode: "Out of the Past"
1996 Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... FarmerEpisode: "Twelve Angry Men"
1996 Casualty Jim PorteousEpisode: "Waterwings"
1997 Dangerfield Ken MarkhamEpisode: "Perfect Witness"
1998 Midsomer Murders Harry VellacottEpisode: "Faithful unto Death" (Novel: "Faithful unto Death)")
1999 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Stanley ClaytonEpisode: "The Fallen Curtain"
1995–2000 The Bill Laurie Coleman

Mick Davies

2 episodes
2000 Dalziel and Pascoe Jack TurtonEpisode: "A Sweeter Lazarus"
2000 Heartbeat Matty LovellEpisode: "War Stories"
2001 Where the Heart Is Peter LampardEpisode: "Pound of Flesh"
2001 Hearts and Bones Mr. Rose2 episodes
2001 Big Bad World Ernest3 episodes
2004 The Last Detective Jervis BeauchampEpisode: "Benefit to Mankind"
2004 Powers Mike KnowlesEpisode: "The Future Is Yours"
2002–2007 Doctors Eric Barbar

Jim Young

2 episodes
2004–2009 Holby City Bill Gibbs

Mr Frisby

2 episodes

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Jason</span> English actor (born 1940)

Sir David John White, known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He has played Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Detective Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost, Granville in Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, as well as voicing several cartoon characters, including Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, the BFG in the 1989 film, and the title characters of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicholas Lyndhurst</span> English actor (born 1961)

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor and became best known for his role as Rodney Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003). He also had major roles in other sitcoms including Goodnight Sweetheart, Going Straight (1978), Butterflies (1978–1983), The Two of Us (1986–1990), The Piglet Files (1990–1992) and After You've Gone (2007–2008). He starred in the comedy-drama series Rock & Chips (2010–2011) and co-starred in the procedural crime drama series New Tricks (2013–2015). In 2023, he was cast in the revival of the US sitcom Frasier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Holm</span> British actor (1931–2020)

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Davison</span> English actor

Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett, known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He made his television acting debut in 1975 and became famous in 1978 as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories.

<i>Only Fools and Horses</i> British TV sitcom (1981–2003)

Only Fools and Horses.... is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. Set in working-class Peckham in south-east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger half-brother Rodney Trotter, alongside a supporting cast. The series follows the Trotters' highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the series received numerous awards, including recognition from BAFTA, the National Television Awards, and the Royal Television Society, as well as winning individual accolades for both Sullivan and Jason. It was voted Britain's Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger Lloyd-Pack</span> English actor (1944–2014)

Roger Anthony Lloyd-Pack was an English actor. He is best known for playing Trigger in Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley from 1994 to 2007. He later starred as Tom in The Old Guys with Clive Swift. He is also well known for the role of Barty Crouch Sr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and for his appearances in Doctor Who as John Lumic in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel". He was sometimes credited without the hyphen in his surname. He died in 2014 from pancreatic cancer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alan Clarke</span> English director (1935–1990)

Alan John Clarke was an English television and film director, producer and writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Beckinsale</span> English actor (1947–1979)

Richard Arthur Beckinsale was an English actor. He played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp. He was the father of actresses Samantha and Kate Beckinsale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Barber (actor)</span> English actor

Paul Barber is an English actor from Toxteth, Liverpool. In a career spanning more than 45 years, he is best known for playing Denzil in Only Fools and Horses and Horse in The Full Monty.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phil Daniels</span> English actor (born 1958)

Philip William Daniels is an English actor, musician and singer, most noted for film and television roles playing Londoners, such as the lead role of Jimmy Cooper in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Danny in Breaking Glass, Mark in Meantime, Billy Kid in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks, and Grandad Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips. He is also known for featuring on Blur's 1994 hit single "Parklife".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geoffrey Toone</span> Irish actor

Geoffrey Toone was an English character actor and former matinee idol, born in Ireland. Most of his film roles after the 1930s were in supporting parts, usually as authority figures, though he did play the lead character in the Hammer Films production The Terror of the Tongs in 1961.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Vaughan</span> English actor

Peter Vaughan was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on stage.

Colin Abel Jeavons is a retired British television actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Challis</span> English actor (1942–2021)

John Spurley Challis was an English actor. He had an extensive theatre and television career but is best known for portraying Herman Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long-running BBC Television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass (2005–2009), as well as Monty Staines from the seventh series onwards in the ITV sitcom Benidorm (2015–2018). Challis was an established stage actor, making appearances for companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kenneth MacDonald (English actor)</span> Actor, best known for playing Mike Fisher in Only Fools and Horses

Kenneth MacDonald was an English actor who was best known for the parts of Gunner Nobby Clark in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Mike Fisher in Only Fools and Horses.

Daniel Peacock is an English actor, director, writer and carer. He has worked with the team of The Comic Strip Presents... and played "Mental Mickey" in Only Fools and Horses.

<i>I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle</i> 1990 film by Mont Campbell

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is a 1990 British comedy horror film about a motorcycle possessed by an evil spirit, which rides by itself and kills people, particularly members of a particular motorcycle gang. It stars Neil Morrissey as the bike's owner, Michael Elphick as a police inspector and Anthony Daniels as a priest who attempts to exorcise the bike's evil spirit.

David Fleeshman is a British actor, broadcaster, drama lecturer and theatre director with experience in film, radio, television, theatre and commercials.

Esta Malka Charkham is a British television and film producer and casting director known for the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984) and the television series Robin of Sherwood (1984), among others.

References

  1. "COLIN DAVID DAKER - HARLOW - ACTOR". www.checkcompany.co.uk.
  2. "David Daker". BFI. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016.
  3. "BBC NEWS – UK – Actor Michael Elphick dies". 10 September 2002.
  4. "Only Fools and Horses....: No Greater Love". 9 November 1990. p. 92 via BBC Genome.
  5. "Porridge - S3 - Episode 6: Final Stretch". Radio Times.
  6. "Time Bandits (1981)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016.
  7. "I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018.