Jeff Rawle

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Jeff Rawle
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Rawle in 2011
Born
Jeffrey Alan Rawle

(1951-07-20) 20 July 1951 (age 72)
OccupationActor
Years active1973–present
Spouse
Nina Marc
(m. 1998)
Children4

Jeffrey Alan Rawle (born 20 July 1951) is an English actor. He is known for portraying George Dent in the news-gathering sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey , and Silas Blissett in Hollyoaks from December 2010 until 2012. Rawle returned to Hollyoaks in 2016, 2020 and 2022. He is also known for his role as Amos Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), and has garnered notable notoriety for his performance as the character.

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Early life

Rawle was born on 20 July 1951 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. His first secondary school was King Edward VI School in Aston, Birmingham. When he was 15 his family moved to Sheffield, and it was at High Storrs Grammar School that he first became interested in drama when he appeared in school plays. He worked at the Sheffield Playhouse before training at LAMDA. [1]

Career

Rawle landed his first major role in 1973 as Billy in the television version of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's Billy Liar . In 1979, he appeared with Ian McKellen and Tom Bell in Bent at the Criterion Theatre, London. In 1984, he appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontios as the character Plantaganet. He appeared in Faith in the Future on ITV from 1995 to 1998. In 2004, Rawle began appearing in the ITV series Doc Martin as Roger Fenn. The actor went on to make a guest appearance in the fourth episode of the fourth series of New Tricks as lawyer Jonathan Blunt. The following year, he starred in the fourth series of Spooks as the Home Secretary. He also appeared in Ultimate Force – "Never Go Back" alongside Ross Kemp.

Rawle portrayed Amos Diggory, father of Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . 2008 saw Rawle play Gilbert Murray in the National Theatre's production of Tony Harrison's play Fram . The following year, he guested in The Bill and appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC. During 2010, Rawle joined the cast of Hollyoaks in the role of serial killer Silas Blissett. [2] He stated that he was delighted to be playing such a sinister character. He has won various awards for his portrayal of Silas. [3] He initially left the role in 2012 before making guest returns from January to May 2016, October 2020 to January 2021. He reprised the role in September 2022, where his character was finally killed off by his grandson, Bobby. [4]

In October 2012, it was announced Rawle had joined the cast of Doctors as Rory Bishton, a road sweeper with something to hide. [5] Rawle made his screen debut as Rory in early 2013. [5] He had previously appeared in the series in 2004. [5]

Rawle has provided numerous narrations including A Bear Called Paddington , three series of the Duchess of York's Budgie the Little Helicopter , Stephen Hawking's Universe and Tom Fort's The Grass is Always Greener for BBC Radio 4. Rawle's writing credits include The Young Poisoner's Handbook in 1995 and Who Goes There?

Filmography and television

YearTitleRoleNotes
19731974 Billy Liar Billy FisherTV series; 26 Episodes
1975 Play for Today SteveEpisode: "The Death of a Young, Young Man"
1975WhodunnitArthurTV series Episode 22 "Worth Dying For"
1975 Crown Court Robert GrayEpisode: "Bad Day at Black Cape: Part 1"
1977 Van der Valk DiederickTV series; Episode: "The Professor"
1978The Life Story of BaalJohannes
1978A Hitch in Time'Sniffy' Kemp
1978The Wilde AlliancePusherTV series; Episode: "A Game for Two Players"
1979Leave It to CharlieTV series; Episode: "Never a Cross Word"
1979 Home Before Midnight Johnnie McGee
1980 Hammer House of Horror FranksTV series; Episode: "Charlie Boy"
1981 Juliet Bravo Steve RamseyTV series; Episode: "Lies and Liars"
1982Crystal GazingJulian
1983 Bergerac MitchTV series; Episode: "Almost Like a Holiday"
1983 Angels Jeff HarrisTV series; episodes 22 and 24 of season 9
1984 The Case of Marcel Duchamp Norbert
1984 Doctor Who PlantagenetTV series; Episode: "Frontios"
1985 Remington Steele ChalkyTV series; Episode: "Steele Searching: Parts 1 and 2"
1985 The Doctor and the Devils Lambert
1986 Call Me Mister GuyTV series; Episode: "Humpty Dumpty"
1987 Fortunes of War Sgt. RidleyTV miniseries
1987 Boon Maurice
also known as Billy Clutterbuck
TV series; Episode: "Credit Where it's Due"
1988 Screen Two BillyTV series; Episode: "Run for the Lifeboat"
1988South of the BorderStigBBC TV series; Series 1, Episode 3
1988 The Bill Derek PardoeTV series; Episode: "Alarms and Embarrassments"
1989 Vote for Them W.O. Wilson3 part mini-series [6]
1989 ScreenPlay Episode: "Testimony of a Child" [7] [Note 1]
1989 ScreenPlay The ManEpisode: "Beyond the Pale"
1990 The Gift John Price6 part mini-series for children [8]
1990 – 1998 Drop the Dead Donkey George DentTV series
1990 This is David Harper Bob BenchleyTV series; Episode: "A List of Abuses"
1991 A Perfect Hero Service PolicemanTV series
1992The Life and Times of Henry PrattEzra PrattTV series
1992 Casualty Len JacksonTV series; Episode: "Silent Night", series 7 episode 15
1993 Minder Jehovah's Witness TV series; Episode: "Uneasy Rider"
19941996 Budgie the Little Helicopter Narrator and Dell the baggage cart towing truckTV series; voice
1994 Wycliffe Reverend JordanTV series; Episode: "The Last Rites"
1995Look at the State We're In!Jeff JarndyceTV mini-series
19951998 Faith in the Future PaulTV series
1996Lord of MisruleDerekTV
1998Neville's IslandNevilleTV
19982000 Microsoap ColinTV series
2000I Saw YouFrankTV
2000 Take a Girl Like You Mr. CharltonTV
2002 Dalziel and Pascoe Raymond MilesTV series; Episode: "Mens Sana"
2003 Midsomer Murders Derrick SeagroveTV series, Episode: "A Talent for Life"
2003 Blackball Dennis
2003 Death in Holy Orders Father Peregrine GloverTV
2004 Doctors John MarshallTV series; Episode: "A Late Flowering"
2004 The Royal BanksTV series; Episode: "Doing Time"
2004The DeputyGraham HammondTV
2004 Heartbeat Ken SimnerTV series; Episode: "Scent of a Kill"
2004 William and Mary George EmersonTV series; series 2 episode 5
2004 My Dad's the Prime Minister Union leaderTV series; Episode: "Powerless"
20042007 Doc Martin Roger FennTV series; Episodes: "Gentlemen Prefer", "Sh*t Happens", "Haemophobia", "The Family Way", "Happily Ever After"
2005 Ultimate Force David CoxTV series; Episode: "Never Go Back"
2005 Holby City Ron FellTV series; Episode: "It's Kinda Rock 'n' Roll"
2005 Spooks Home Secretary Also known as MI-5 in the USA
TV series; Episodes: "The Special: Part I" and "The Special: Part II"
2005 A Touch of Frost Steve MarkhamTV series; Episode: "Near Death Experience"
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Amos Diggory
2006 Holby City Roger NashTV series; Episodes: "Team Holby", "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Lost", "Now or Never"
2006 Sea of Souls James NormanTV series; Episode: "Oracle"
2006 The Large Family Mr. LargeTV series; voice
2009 The Bill George FieldingTV series, Episode: "Innocence Betrayed"
2009 The Sarah Jane Adventures Lionel HardingMuseum Curator, Mona Lisa's Revenge
2010–2011, 2012, 2016, 2020–2021, 2022 Hollyoaks &
Hollyoaks Later
Silas Blissett Series regular
2011 Midsomer Murders Gerry DawkinsTV series, Episode: "Dark Secrets"
2011 My Family Antiques expertEpisode: Germs of Endearment
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time Mervyn Pinfield Television docudrama about the creation of Doctor Who in 1963
2013 Heading Out DonaldOne episode
20132017 Holby City Jerry ClarkTV series; Episodes: "Hanssen/Hemingway", "Unravelled", "Black Dog", "We Need to Talk About Fredrik"
2016 Bottersnikes and Gumbles [9] HappiVoice only
2016 Steptoe and Son [10] Albert SteptoeA one-off episode, part of the BBC's Lost Sitcom season, recreating lost episodes of classic comedies
2018 Peterloo Magistrate Rev. HayFilm directed by Mike Leigh
2019 Father Brown Professor Robert WisemanSeason 7 Episode 3: "The Whistle in the Dark"
2020 Brassic Mister BatesSeason 2 Episode 3: "Antique Hunters"
2021 The Canterville Ghost Duke George 'Bluey' Stilton
2023 Lockwood & Co. Sebastian SaundersNetflix series; two episodes
2023 Grantchester Dr. AbbotSeason 8, Episode 3

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