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David Sibley (born 16 July 1948) is an English actor.
He is best known for character roles in several television series: as twisted radio DJ Tom Everett in BBC television detective series Shoestring (in the episode Mocking Bird); and in Doctor Who as Pralix (in The Pirate Planet ). [1] [2] He appeared on a DVD extra when this story was released recently. [3] His first regular television role was in Wings in 1977. [1]
Other appearances include Blake's 7 , Survivors , Fun at the Funeral Parlour , Target , Minder , Lovejoy , and the film Gandhi . [2] He appeared as Eric Birling in the 1982 BBC adaptation of J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls. [4] He returned to television in The Year That London Blew Up (1995), a dramatisation of the IRA attacks on London in 1974–75. He played John Carver in Midsomer Murders in 2010. [5] Between 2001 and 2012 he played four different characters in Doctors . In 2012 he was in New Tricks episode Part Of A Whole, playing journalist Nigel Baxter. [6] 2014 starred as Freddie in the supernatural thriller The Sleeping Room. [7]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1982 | Gandhi | Subaltern | |
| 1988 | Willow | Galladoorn Warrior | Uncredited |
| 1989 | Great Balls of Fire! | Third English Reporter | |
| 1994 | Princess Caraboo | Harrison | |
| 1997 | Incognito | Whitehurst Landlord | |
| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | Intimidating Man | |
| 2013 | Closed Circuit | Vicar | |
| 2014 | The Sleeping Room | Freddie | |
| 2015 | 45 Years | George | |
| 2023 | Tuesday | Robert |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1983 | Give Us a Break | Billy Wilson | 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Silent Witness | Judge Gilmore | Episode: "Protection" (2 parts) |
| 2022 | Death in Paradise | Julius Rotfeld | Season 11, episode 8 |
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