Malcolm Storry

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Malcolm Storry
Born (1948-01-13) 13 January 1948 (age 76)
OccupationActor
Years active1978–present

Malcolm Storry (born 13 January 1948) is an English actor with extensive experience on stage, television, and film. Amongst many roles, he is perhaps best known for 'Yellin' in The Princess Bride , [1] HM Customs Chief Bill Adams on The Knock , and Clive Tishell in Doc Martin . [2]

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Storry was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He has had an extensive career in theatre, TV, and film, including such roles as Sir Francis Drake in Elizabeth: The Golden Age , Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream for the National Theatre, and many roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company including Prospero [3] and Caliban in The Tempest and Macduff and Banquo in Macbeth . [4]

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978 The Sailor's Return Sailor
1982 Firefox KGB Agent #2
1987 The Princess Bride Yellin
1987 The Beiderbecke Tapes Mr Peterson
1988Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy"Dogfood" Dan Milton
1991 Under Suspicion Waterston
1992 The Last of the Mohicans Phelps
1994 A Pinch of Snuff Ray Crabtree
1995 The Scarlet Letter Maj. Dunsmuir
1995 Inspector Morse DCI Martin JohnsonThe Way Through the Woods” S8:E1
1997 The Man Who Knew Too Little Chief Ins. Cockburn
2004 The Rocket Post Captain Kultz
2001, 2010 Midsomer Murders Silas Burbage, Joe Megson“Who Killed Cock Robin?” (2001), “Blood on the Saddle” (2010)
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age Sir Francis Drake Uncredited [4]
2007 Jekyll Colonel HartTV Mini-Series, Episode: #1.3, #1.5, “Hyde”
2009 Above Suspicion

New Tricks

John McDowell

Brother Raymond

TV Series, Part 1 & 2

TV Series, Episode: “The War Against Drugs”

2011 Will

The Shadow Line

Finch

Maurice Crace

TV Mini-Series, 7 episodes

2012 Playhouse Presents GardenerTV Series
2014 New Worlds AdamTV Mini-Series, 3 episodes
2013–2015 Father Brown Bishop Talbot“The Blue Cross”, “The Mystery of the Rosary”, The Deadly Seal”
2016 The Living and the Dead Gideon LangtreeTV Series, 6 episodes
2017 Darkest Hour General Ironside
2015–2017 Doc Martin Clive TishellTV Series, 8 episodes
2019 Temple BarryTV Series, Episode #1.1
2022 The English Red Morgan

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References

  1. "20 Questions With...Malcolm Storry - Interviews - 5 Nov 2001". Whatsonstage.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. Doc Martin (TV Series 2004– ) , retrieved 17 August 2018
  3. Billington, Michael (8 May 2002). "The Tempest, Roundhouse, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 Curtis Brown Talent Agency: Malcolm Storry CV, Curtis Brown, retrieved 16 February 2024