David Hargreaves (actor)

David Hargreaves
Born	(1940-02-02) 2 February 1940 (age 85) New Mills, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Education	Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupations	Actor, TV presenter
Years active	1962-present
Spouse	Chloe Ashcroft

David Hargreaves (born 2 February 1940) is an English actor, active on stage and screen, as well as radio drama, he is best known for his television drama roles in the 1970s and 1980s set in the north of England, and as a presenter on BBC children's television of the same period.

Early life

Hargreaves was born in New Mills, Derbyshire, and attended Glossop Grammar School (became Glossopdale School in 1965). ^[1] He trained as a science teacher, at City of Leeds Training College, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

Hargreaves worked as a supply teacher at Rising Hill Comprehensive School in Islington, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company to play in the first The Wars of the Roses Cycle of plays in 1963/65. He played Hotspur in Henry IV part 1 and Leontes in A Winters Tale for the North East Shakespeare Festival run by Joseph O'Connor in 1965, before joining Olivier's National Theatre, appearing in Much Ado about Nothing, Mother Courage, The Crucible, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Love for Love, Othello, The Storm, A Flea in Her Ear and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. After an extensive career in repertory theatre, television and radio, he returned to the RSC in 2004 to play Capulet in Romeo and Juliet in Peter Gill's production, and as Gloucester in Bill Alexander's production of King Lear to Corin Redgrave's Lear.

Returned to the RSC in 2008/09 to play Baptista Minola in The Taming of the Shrew, directed, by Conal Morrison, and as Man in The Cordelia Dream, written by Marina Carr, directed by Selina Cartmell, for the RSC at Wilton's Music Hall. In 2005 he returned to the National Theatre in a co-production with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, to play Charlie in On the Shore of the Wide World. In 2011 he played God in Tony Harrison's, The Mysteries, directed by Deborah Bruce, and in 2012 played the King of France/Nym/Erpingham, in Dominic Dromgoole's production of Henry V, both at Shakespeare's Globe. 2015 he played Giles Corey in The Crucible, and in 2016, Gloucester in King Lear, both directed by Tom Morris at the Bristol Old Vic. In 2022 he appeared in Moira Buffini's play Manor, at the National Theatre, Lyttleton, directed by Fiona Buffini.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Agatha	Sgt. Jarvis
1987	Closing Ranks	Doctor
1989	She's Been Away	Lilian's Doctor
2003	A Straw in the Wind	Man	Short film
2007	Love Letters	Alan
2016	Kotchebi	Ted
2019	Last Christmas	Arthur
2022	Your Christmas or Mine?	Naughty
2023	Us & In Between	Eddie	Short film
2025	Rhubarb Rhubarb	Dad	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	The Last Man Out		6 episodes
1963-1969	Z-Cars	Mechanic, Roy Cooper, Pilot	4 episodes
1965	Othello		Directed by Stuart Burge for BHE Films/National Theatre of Great Britain
1968-1969	The Expert	Sgt. Cook, Harry	3 episodes
1969-1972	Callan	Karl Donner, Harris	2 episodes
1969	The First Lady		Episode: "And They Call That Progress"
1970	Roads to Freedom		2 episodes
	The Worker	Mason
1971-1973	Softly, Softly	Lawrence Morgan, Carter	Episodes: "The Bounty Hunter", "Conspiracy"
1971	Elizabeth R	Bolingbroke	Episode: "Sweet England's Pride"
1972-1980	Play for Today	Various	3 episodes
1972	Clouds of Witness	George Goyles
	The Brothers	Reynolds	Episode: "Full Circle"
	The Visitors	Herbert Wragg	Series regular
	Home and Away
1973-1975	Crown Court	Various	3 episodes
1973	The Adventurer	Russel	Episode: "Mr Calloway Is a Very Cautious Man"
1975	The Sweeney	Det. Sgt. Jellineck	Episode: "Night Out"
	Centre Play	Caller	Episode: "Post Morton"
	Oil Strike North	Henderson	Episode: "Storm Clouds
1976	When the Boat Comes In	Greenberg	Episode: "Roubles for the Promised Land"
1977	This Year Next Year	Randall	Episode: "Haytime"
	Headmaster		5 episodes
	The XYY Man	Shane Wentworth	2 episodes
	The Cost of Loving
	Coronation Street	Mr Birchell
1978-1979	Play School	Himself	Presenter
	Strangers	DCI Rainbow	11 episodes
1978	Armchair Thriller	Ken Holbrook	Parts 3, 5 and 6 of "A Dog's Ransom"
	The Standard		Episode: "Two Birds one Stone"
	The Professionals	Halloran	Episode: "Not a Very Civil Servant"
1979	A Brother's Tale
1980	Leap in the Dark	Dr Bushnell	Episode: "Poor Jenny"
	Cribb	Robert D'Estin	Episode: "The Detective Wore Silk Drawers"
	Mistress Masham's Repose
	Together
1981-1982	Juliet Bravo	Tom Darblay	22 episodes
	Sorry I'm a Stranger Here Myself	Tom Pratt	Series regular
	Science Workshop	Himself	Presenter
1981	Jackanory	Himself	Presenter
1982	For Ever Young	Brother-in-law
	Minder	Archie Simpson	"Back in Good Old England"
1983	Shades of Darkness	Fanshaw	Episode: "The Intercessor"- Fanshaw
1984	The Sea Green Man
1985-1986	Albion Market	Derek Owen	80 episodes
1985	Home to Roost
	Shine on Harvey Moon	Sgt. Singer	Episode: "Anything Goes"
	Pie in the Sky	Himself	Presenter
1986	1914 All Out	Tom Houghton	TV movie
1987	Truckers		Episode: "Shoot if you'll pardon my French"
1988-1989	Making Out	Colin	Recurring
1988	Erasmus Microman	Michael Faraday
	ScreenPlay	Governor	Episode: "No Further Cause for Concern"
1989	All Creatures Great and Small		Episodes: "Mending Fences"
	TECX	Editor
1990	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Sergeant
4 Play	Desk Sergeant	Episode: "Madly in Love"
A Strike Out of Time	Arthur Scargill	TV movie
Debut on Two	Blue Man, Wayne	Episodes: "The Conversion of St Paul", "Kingdom Come"
1991	Thatcher: The Final Days	Charles Powell	TV movie
	Woof!	Doctor
	Josie	Gradgrind
1992-2005	Heartbeat	Various	3 episodes
1992	The Mendip Mysteries	Lou Clarke
	The Tempest	Alonso	For BBC Disability Unit
1993-1998	Peak Practice	Rev. Neil Winters, Charlie Fields	2 episodes
1993-2006	The Bill	Various	5 episodes
1993	The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries	Super.Int. Harper	Episode: "Death at the Bar"
	Fighting for Gemma	Dr Phillip Dale	TV movie
	Harry	MadAxeman
1994-2006	Casualty	Various	3 episodes
1994	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Mr Feast	Episode: "Vanity Dies Hard"
	Earthfast	Dr Wix
1995	Some Kind of Life	John Taylor
	Expert Witness	Det. Sup. David Doxey	Episode: "A Family Man"
1996	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	Picture Editor	Episode: "Eye Witness"
	Beck	O'Rielly
	Pie in the Sky	Charlie Reeves	Episodes: "Return Match"
1997	Blooming Marvellous	Dad	6 episodes
Bugs	Anthony Fairchild	Episodes: "Identity Crisis", "Happy Ever After"
1998	West Foot Forward		Producer and deviser; eight-part documentary
1999	The Passion	Dave	Series regular
2001-2003	Merseybeat	Bill Gentle	Series regular
2014	Borgia	Fra Cello
2015	Last Chance	Roger	Gained special selection for LA Shorts Fest
2017	Trust Me	Geoff
2018-2019	This Country	Arthur Andrews	Series regular
2018	Doctors	Edwin Wolfe
	Moving On	Andrew
	Fleabag	Chatty Joe	Series 2
	Traitors	Martin Garrick	Recurring
2019	Warren	Grandad	Series regular
	For Love or Money	Priest
	Wild Bill	Albert Gilchrist
	Flack	Warren Armitage	Series 2
2021	A Very British Scandal	Niall
2022	The Flatshare	Mr Prior	Series regular
	Documentary Now	Horace McTierney	Season 4
	Dalgliesh	Mr Lorrimer	Series 2
2024	Whitstable Pearl	Jacob Carnage
	Silent Witness	Benjamin Dawson
2025	Young Sherlock	Coroner
	The Famous Five	Grandfather
	Make That Movie	Winnie

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Director	Theatre	Notes
1963-1964	Richard III	Norfolk	Peter Hall/John Barton	Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Royal Shakespeare Company
	Henry VI	Assorted Soldiers, Citizens	Peter Hall/John Barton/Peter Wood
1963-1965	Three Sisters	Solyony	Frank Evans	Conference Hall Studio
1963	The Lower Middle-Class Wedding Party	Bridegroom	Sandy Black	Royal Shakespeare Theatre
1964	Richard II	Bushy	Peter Hall/John Barton
1965-1967	Mother Courage and Her Children	Catholic Sergeant/ Lieutenant	Bill Gaskill	Royal National Theatre	Old Vic
1965	Othello	Herald	John Dexter
	The Storm	Citizen
	Much Ado about Nothing	Borachio	Franco Zeffirelli/Robert Stephens
	Love for Love	Foresight's Servant	Peter Wood
	Juno and the Paycock	Neighbour	Laurence Olivier
	A Flea in Her Ear	Neighbour	Jacques Charon
	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Horatio	Derek Goldby
	Henry VI, Part 1	Hotspur	Tony Carrick	Sunderland Empire Theatre	Part of the North East Shakespeare Festival
	The Winters Tale	Leontes	Joseph O'Connor
1968	Not Now, Darling	Ron	Patrick Cargill	Strand Theatre	For Michael White
1969	Saint Joan	Cauchon	George Roman	Billingham Forum Theatre
1970	The Roaring Girl	Trapdoor	Keith Darville	Dundee Repertory Theatre
	The Recruiting Officer	Plume	Tony Carrick	Hornchurch Repertory Theatre
1971	Subject for Interrogation/Agentic Shift	Colonel/Joe	John Chapman	Bush Theatre
1972	Landscape of Exile	Aveling	Roland Rees	Half Moon Theatre	For Foco Novo
1979	Wednesday	Arthur	Dusty Hughes	Bush Theatre
1980	It's a Mad House	Eddie	Michael Attenborough	Leeds Playhouse
1982	The Best Girl in Ten Streets	Interrogator	Tamara Hinchco	Soho Poly
	Devour the Snow	Sutter	Simon Curtis	Bush Theatre
1983	A Passion in Six Days	Glint	Michael Boyd	Crucible Theatre
1984	A View from the Bridge	Alfieri	Roger Smith	Young Vic Theatre
1987	Happy Jack	Jack	Janet Henfry		Islington Touring
1988	The Father	The Captain	Patrick Stanford	Redgrave Theatre
	A Doll's House	Krogstadt	Jan Sargeant	Riverside Studios
1989	Chekhov's Women	Ivan/Vershinin	Vanessa Redgrave/David Hargreaves	Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith	For Moving Theatre Company
	Stoppard's 15 Minute Hamlet		David Hargreaves	The Rose	For "Save the Rose Theatre"
1990	Is This the Day	Derek Humphries	Michael Napier Brown	Royal Theatre, Northampton
1991	Twelfth Night	Antonio	Peter Hall	Triumph Productions Playhouse Theatre	London/Tour
1992	A View from the Bridge	Eddie Carbone	Michael Napier Brown	Royal Theatre, Northampton
1993	Raising Hell	Aleister Crowley	Les Miller	Old Red Lion	For Inner City Theatre
	A Passionate Woman	Donald	David Liddament	West Yorkshire Playhouse
1995	Antony and Cleopatra	Lepidus/Dolabella	Vanessa Redgrave	Riverside Studios	For Moving Theatre Company; went on world tour
	The Fire Raisers	Chorus	Lenka Udovički		For Moving Theatre Company
	Casement	Basil Thompson	Corin Redgrave
1996	The Changing Room	Thornton	James Macdonald	Duke of York's Theatre	For Royal Court Theatre; toured
	Season's Greetings	Harvey	Gwenda Hughes	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1997	Lavochkin 5	Seryozha	Irina Brown	Tron Theatre
1998	Kafka's Dick	Herman	Phillip Franks	Nottingham Playhouse
1999	All That Trouble That We Had	Vaughan	Tony Clarke	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
	The Four Alice Bakers	Prof. Richard Baker	Bill Alexander
2000-2001	Hamlet	Polonius			Toured
2000	Quarantine	Aphas
	Twelfth Night	Feste
2004-2005	King Lear	Gloucester		Albery Theatre	For Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford/London
2004	Romeo and Juliet	Capulet	Peter Gill
	Pilate	Caiaphas	Michael Boyd		For RSC Studio, Stratford
2005	On the Shore of the Wide World	Charlie Holmes	Sarah Francom	Royal Exchange, Manchester	Royal National Theatre
	The Hypochondriac	Argente	Hamish Glenn	Belgrade Theatre
2006	The Worcester Pilgrim	Pilgrim	Peter Leslie Wilde	Worcester Cathedral
2007	Mr Puntila and His Man Matti	Puntila	Hamish Glenn	Belgrade Theatre
2008-2009	The Cordelia Dream	Man	Selina Cartmel	Wilton's Music Hall	Royal Shakespeare Company
2008	The Taming of the Shrew	Baptista Minola	Conal Morrison	Royal Shakespeare Theatre
2009	Pub Quiz is Life	Bunny	Gareth Tudor Price	Hull Truck Theatre	Hull Truck Theatre Company
2010	Inheritance	Harry	Lisa Goldman		Live Theatre Company
2011	The Globe Mysteries by Tony Harrison	God	Deborah Bruce	Shakespeare's Globe
2014	Henry V	King of France/Nym/Erpingham	Dominic Dromgoole
2016	The Crucible	Giles Corey	Tom Morris	Bristol Old Vic
	King Lear	Gloucester
2022	Manor	Rev.Fiske	Fiona Buffini	Royal National Theatre

Radio credits

Year	Title	Role	Producer	Channel	Notes
2001	The Tailor of Gloucester	The Tailor	Jonquil Ponting	BBC Radio 4
	The Rainbow Bridge	David Williams	Peter Leslie Wilde
2002	Scrooge Blues	Ebenezer Scrooge
	Glorious John	John
	The Really Rough Holiday Guide	Old Tom	Sally Avens
2003	The Worcester Pilgrim	William Sutton	Vanessa Whitburn/Peter Leslie Wilde
2004	The English Garden	Poetry Reader	Gabi Fisher
2005	Gunpowder Women	Father Garnet
	Portrait	Phil	David Hunter
	The Waterloo Model	Narrator	Peter Leslie Wilde
2006	Alf Said I Was Great	Len
	Out of Season	George	Carrie Rooney
	GBA were M'esin	The Man	Polly James
	Good Times Roll	Guy	Steven Canny	BBC Radio 3
	Tin Man	Grandad/Tinker	Nadia Molinari	BBC Radio 4
	Heft Like the Herdwick	Thomas
2007	Second Chance	Jim
2008	Look Sharp	Ted
2009	Boswell's Life of Johnson	David Garrick/King George	Claire Groves
	Choice of Straws	Dad
	Edward II	Lancaster/Matrevis	Jessica Dromgoole
	From Fact to Fiction: Parliament of Rooks	Poet	Peter Leslie Wilde
	How are you Feeling Alf	Michael	Peter Kavanagh
	Incident at Boulonvilliers	Arthur	David Hunter
	Leaving	Oswald Knobloch	Marion Nancarrow
	Rappaccini's Daughter	Baglioni	Abigal le Fleming
	The Hairy Ape	Guard	Toby Swift
	The Milk Race	Fox Man
	The Last Tsar	Lord Stanfordham	Jeremy Mortimer
	The Long Room	Reader	Laurence Grissel
	The Looking Glass War	Woodford	Marc Beeby
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Roy Bland	Steven Canny
	Towards Zero	Treeves	Mary Peate
2010	The Ladies Delight	Narrator	Charlotte Riches		Woman's Hour serial
	The Archers	Joseph Hastings	Vanessa Whitburn
	Siege	Jack	Susan Roberts
	The Journey	Alan	Nadia Molinari
2012	The Archers	Arthur	Julie Beckett
	Together	Reader	Andrew Barnes
	Truman and Riley	Charlie	Toby Swift
2019	The Archers	Alf Grundy
2020	The Tempest	Prospero	Sean Hagarty	Shakespeare@ Home
2021	Richard II	John of Gaunt

Personal life

He married in 1966 in Buckinghamshire, to actress Chloe Ashcroft, whom he met at the National Theatre. They live in Whiteshill and Ruscombe in Gloucestershire and have a son (born 1968) and daughter (born April 1971).

References

1. New Mills ^{[ dead link ]}

External links

• David Hargreaves at IMDb
• Portrait