Lee Ingleby

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Lee Ingleby
Born
Lee David Ingleby

(1976-01-28) 28 January 1976 (age 48)
Burnley, Lancashire, England
Alma mater London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active1997–present

Lee David Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is an English film, television and stage actor.

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He is best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant/Detective Inspector John Bacchus in the BBC drama Inspector George Gently , as Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the role of Paul Hughes, the father of an autistic child, Joe, in a BBC drama, The A Word . [1]

Early life

Ingleby was born in Burnley, Lancashire, son of Gordon Ingleby and Susan M Hoggarth, and lived in nearby Brierfield during the early part of his life, attending Edge End High School, as did fellow actor John Simm. Both were taught by the same drama teacher, Brian Wellock, [2] who encouraged them to enter professional theatre. [3] [4] He then studied at Accrington and Rossendale College before progressing to LAMDA in London.

Career

Ingleby's first major role was as the young lead in the 2000 BBC miniseries Nature Boy alongside Paul McGann. He played Smike in a 2001 television film version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby . Also in 2001, he starred in and wrote the screenplay for the short film Cracks in the Ceiling, which he appeared in with his father, Gordon Ingleby. In the 2002 theatrical release Borstal Boy , based very loosely on the life of Irish poet-activist Brendan Behan, Ingleby played a bully in an English boarding school for juvenile offenders.

Ingleby has also made one-off appearances in television programmes such as Hustle , Clocking Off , No Angels , Fat Friends , Jonathan Creek , Spaced , Dalziel and Pascoe , Cadfael (Pilgrim of Hate) and The Bill . He has had supporting roles in films such as Gustave in Ever After alongside Drew Barrymore and as Hollom in the 2003 Peter Weir film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World .

In 2004, Ingleby had a small role in the Orlando Bloom vehicle Haven , which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival but was not commercially released until 2006 following heavy re-editing. He also guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Terror Firma .

In 2006 Ingleby appeared in Jimmy McGovern BBC TV series The Street, where he played abusive husband Sean O'Neill alongside Christine Bottomley. Another project during 2006 was the television adaptation of The Wind in the Willows , in which he played Mole. It also starred Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad and Mark Gatiss as Ratty. He also appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.[ citation needed ] Ingleby also played the important role of Vic Tyler, the father of John Simm's character Sam Tyler, in an episode of Life on Mars.

In 2007 Ingleby was cast as DS John Bacchus (later promoted to inspector in series 7, 2015) in the BBC police drama Inspector George Gently . [5]

Ingleby headed the cast of the 2008 three-part television crime drama A Place of Execution as DI George Bennett as he was in the 1960s determined to close the case of a missing girl. When not working in films and television, Ingleby remains active on the stage, where his credits include Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream , Alexander in Nicholas Wright's Cressida and Katurian in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman . He performed in the play Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the Cottesloe Theatre from September 2009 to January 2010 as Zygmunt. [6]

In 2011, Ingleby appeared in the television series Being Human as Edgar Wyndham, a menacing vampire elder, and also in Luther as serial killer Cameron Pell.

In 2013, Ingleby took on the voice role of Phillip De Nicholay, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a new audio production of the Robin Hood legend, produced by Spiteful Puppet. He returned to the role in the follow-up "HOOD – The Scribe of Sherwood". In the same year, two more feature length audio stories (Warriors' Harvest and King's Command) have been produced by Spiteful Puppet with Ingleby once again playing the role of "De Nicholay". [7]

In 2015 Ingleby first played Bob in the UK version of the new computer-generated series Bob The Builder - a role that continued until 2018.[ citation needed ] That same year he provided spoken word narration on the progressive rock album Please Come Home which the British musician John Mitchell released under the project name Lonely Robot.

In 2016 Ingleby first appeared in the role of Paul Hughes, father of autistic child Joe, in BBC drama series The A Word , which ran until 2020. [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Ever After Gustave
2000 Borstal Boy Dale
2001Cracks in the CeilingLad
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Smike
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Midshipman Hollom
2004 Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban Stan Shunpike
Haven Patrick
2005 The Headsman Bernhard
2006 The Wind in the Willows Mole
2007 The Last Legion Germanus
2008Post-It LoveBoy
2009 Doghouse Matt
2012 Best Laid Plans Deano
2013The ArbiterJohn
2017Bob the Builder: Mega Machines Bob (voice)UK version

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997 Soldier Soldier Kevin Fitzpatrick
1998 Killer Net Gordon
In the Red Paul
The Bill IanEpisode: "Puzzled"
Cadfael Walter
1999 Junk Rob
The Dark RoomBobby Franklyn
Dalziel and Pascoe Kieron CummingEpisode: "The British Grenadier"
2000 Jonathan Creek Derek SpratleyEpisode: "The Three Gamblers"
Nature BoyDavid
2001 Spaced Romford Thug LeaderEpisode: "Gone"
2002 Impact Peter Stamford
2002 Clocking Off Steven Dugdale
Fat Friends CraigEpisode: "Sweet and Sour"
2004 No Angels Nurse Carl Jenkins
Blue Murder Roger BoersmaEpisode: "Up in Smoke"
Early Doors Dean
2005 Hustle Trevor SpeedEpisode: "The Lesson"
Coming Up GabrielEpisode "Karma Cowboys"
2006 Life on Mars Vic Tyler
The Street Sean O'Neill
2007–2017 Inspector George Gently Detective Sergeant John Bacchus
2007 The Worst Journey in the World Birdie BowersDocudrama
2008 Fairy Tales Jimmy StojkovicEpisode: "Rapunzel"
Place of Execution Detective Inspector George Bennett1960s scenes
Agatha Christie's Marple Colin HardsEpisode: "Nemesis"
Crooked House Ben
2011 Being Human Edgar Wyndham
Luther Cameron Pell
2012 White Heat Alan
Sinbad Riff
2014 Quirke Leslie White
Our Zoo George Mottershead Main cast
The Crimson Field Pte Wilfred 'Dad' TyrellEpisode #1.4
2015–2018 Bob the Builder Bob (UK)Main role, succeeding Neil Morrissey
2016–2020 The A Word Paul HughesMain cast
2016 The Five Slade
2017 Line of Duty Nick HuntleySeries 4
WarshipNarrator
2018 Innocent David Collins
Pilgrimage: The Road to SantiagoNarrator
Watership Down Campion
2019–2020 Criminal: UK Detective Tony Myerscough
2022 Crossfire Jason
The Serpent Queen Henri II (older)
2023 The Hunt For Raoul MoatNeil AdamsonMain role [8]
Screw Patrick MorganSeries 2
The Long Shadow [9] DCS Jim Hobson

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  2. Brian Wellock obituary, Lancashire Telegraph, 2 December 2006
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