Nicholas Day (actor)

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Nicholas Day
Born
Nicholas Patrick Day

(1947-10-16) 16 October 1947 (age 77)
Gillingham, Kent, England
OccupationActor
Years active1969–present

Nicholas Patrick Day (born 16 October 1947) is an English actor, who is currently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters.

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Life

He attended Alleyn's School, Dulwich before studying at the University of Bristol acting with their drama department. [1] Day was a supply teacher at Plumstead Manor School for Girls' for a brief time during the early 1980s, where he taught drama.[ citation needed ]

Acting

He is perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Michael Morley in Minder from 1991 to 1993. He also played Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan in Series One of the BBC drama New Tricks . He portrayed Jack The Ripper, in series six (episode five) of Goodnight Sweetheart in 1999, and played another police officer, DCS John Meredith, in a single episode of Foyle's War in 2008. In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and The Take , and as Martin Crisp in The Dogleg Murders (Series 12 of Midsomer Murders .)

His film roles include appearances in Penelope Pulls It Off (1975), The Golden Bowl (2000), Russian Dolls (2005) and Amazing Grace (2006). [2]

2010s

In 2010 he played Colonel Montford in Joe Johnston's horror film The Wolfman . [2]

In 2013, he played the headmaster in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

He also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for seven seasons including the World Shakespeare Festival, working on classics like The Tempest and Twelfth Night . [3]

Since 2015 he has presented Murder Maps which is made by Netflix in the United Kingdom and is now in its fifth series in the UK. Murder Maps is also shown on Yesterday. In 2021, he narrated Railway Murders. [4]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1975Penelope Pulls It OffJeremiah
1977 Ripping Yarns Sgt. Major Errol1 Episode “Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B”
1980Can We Get on Now, Please?Mr. Marplot1 Episode “Variations in Two Flats”
1980GrundySalvatore1 Episode “Hands Across the Table”
1981 Cribb Igor Ozolin1 Episode “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”
1981ChintzJames Oglethorpe1 Episode
1981 It Takes a Worried Man Gaskell1 Episode “Frankly Speaking”
1981 BBC2 Playhouse Surg. Lt. Commander1 Episode “The Grudge Fight”
1982 ITV Playhouse Dr. Holroyd1 Episode “Grandad”
1982 Harry’s Game Bannen3 Episodes
1982-1983 Shelley Sissons/DHSS Man2 Episodes
1983 The Citadel Paul Deedman3 Episodes
1983 Crown Court 1 Episode “A Matter of Trust: Part 1”
1983 The Bounder P.C. Baxter1 Episode “Raffles”
1983Heartattack HotelRoddieTV Movie
1983-1985 Up the Elephant and Round the Castle Councillor Arnold Moggs/D.H.S.S. Manager11 Episodes
1984 Foxy Lady Mark Patton1 Episode
1984Pull the Other OneVicar1 Episode “Grandma Strikes Back”
1985Summer SeasonMerton1 Episode “A Still Small Shout”
1985-1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes Burgas/Fairbrother2 Episodes
1986 Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy Peter Howes6 Episodes
1986 Call Me Mister Martland1 Episode “The Bombay Ducks”
1986 Full House Mr. Blandford1 Episode “And Baby Makes Five”
1987BustHenry Webster1 Episode “Selling a Dummy”
1987The Michael Barrymore SpecialHimselfTV Special
1988 Screenplay Parkes1 Episode “Home Front”
1989Vote for ThemCaptain Carrington3 Episodes
1989After the WarFrank Kitson4 Episodes
1989 Saracen Terence Swift1 Episode “Three Blind Mice”
1990Made in HeavenVicar1 Episode “Falling for Love”
1990 Never the Twain George1 Episode “Happy Holiday”
1990The Return of ShelleyDr. P. Smith1 Episode “Brainstrain”
1991 Lovejoy Alec Statham1 Episode “One Born Every Minute”
1991 Trouble in Mind Malcolm Barclay9 Episodes
1991-1993 Minder D.S. Morley16 Episodes
1992 Kappatoo Brian7 Episodes
1992 Countdown Himself (Dictionary Corner)1 Episode
1993 Drop the Dead Donkey Tax Officer1 Episode “Henry’s Lost Love”
1995 Screen Two Charles Kendrick1 Episode “The Absence of War”
1995-1999 The Bill Frank Wallace/Referee2 Episodes
1996 Kavanagh QC Alan Jacobs1 Episode “True Commitment”
1997-1999 The Lakes Mr. Archer12 Episodes
1998Human BombPolice commisionerTV Movie
1999 Goodnight Sweetheart Jack the Ripper 1 Episode “…The ‘Ouses in Between”
1999 Extremely Dangerous Gregg4 Episodes
2000The WilsonsMr. Green1 Episode, Credited as Nick Day
2000 The Golden Bowl Lord Castledean
2000 In Defence DCI Bran Minter1 Episode, Credited as Nick Day
2000Sabotage!General 2 - AbelCredited as Nick Day
2000 The Stretch DCI Frank ‘Raquel’ WelchTV Movie
2001 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Chief Superintendent Hilllier1 Episode “A Great Deliverance”
2002 Daniel Deronda Lord Brackenshaw4 Episodes
2003 Adventure Inc. Harold Ashcroft1 Episode “Search for Arthur”
2003 Cambridge Spies Lord Raveley1 Episode
2004 New Tricks Donald Bevan6 Episodes
2004 Rosemary & Thyme Warwick Jardine1 Episode “The Memory of Water”
2004Godot Isn’t ComingPottsShort
2004-2007 Doc Martin Dry Cleaner/Tom Giddens2 Episodes
2005 Russian Dolls Père William
2006 Amazing Grace Sir William Dolben
2008 Foyle’s War DCS John Meredith1 Episode “Plan of Attack”
2009 Margaret Cranley Onslow TV Movie
2009 Midsomer Murders Martin Crisp1 Episode “The Dogleg Murders”
2009 The Take Freddie Senior2 Episodes
2009 Garrow’s Law John Julius Angerstein 1 Episode
2009Easier Ways to Make a LivingLatimerShort
2010 The Wolfman Colonel Montford
2010 Doctors John Howell1 Episode “Yetis on the Golf Course”
2012Eliminate: Archie CooksonSpymaster George
2013 Poirot Ingles1 Episode “The Big Four”
2015 A Dark Reflection Charles Jaspar
2015Pleasure IslandTony
2015-2020Murder MapsHimself25 Episodes
2016 UNIT: The New Series Kenneth LeBlanc/Heston (voice)Podcast Series, 3 Episodes
2016Jump Cut JeffJeffShort
2017OliverThe ManShort
2017 Brexit: The Uncivil War John Mills TV Movie
2017Myths & MonstersHimself6 Episodes
2020 The Crown Jim Prior 2 Episodes
2021 The Worlds of Blake’s 7 Jorah (voice)Podcast Series, 1 Episode “Heart of Ice”
2021 Railway Murders Himself6 Episodes
2024AguskaMalcolmShort

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