 |
Stephen Marcus | |
|---|---|
| Born | Stephen Mark Scott 18 June 1962 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse | Sarah |
Stephen Marcus (born Stephen Mark Scott; 18 June 1962) is a British actor, best known for his role as Nick the Greek in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels .
Marcus became an actor in 1984 after three years of training at Arts Educational Schools in London; he spent the first six months of his career touring throughout London's parks and schools in Robin Hood & The Tree Trick, which was quickly followed by his first film role as Moose in the cult film My Beautiful Laundrette .
After a few years working in theatre, commercials, and supporting roles on television, Marcus joined the cast of fledgling comedy Birds of a Feather as Dave, the lover of Sharon (Pauline Quirke).
A year of acting in commercials introduced Marcus to director Peter Chelsom. Chelsom cast him right away as Gordon in Hear My Song , opposite Ned Beatty. This was followed by roles on British television, in programmes such as The Hot Dog Wars, Dangerfield , Class Act , Kavanagh QC and Our Friends in the North . Meanwhile, Marcus's movie career was also progressing, with roles opposite Timothy Dalton in The Beautician and the Beast , Robert Englund in The Killer Tongue and Richard Harris in Savage Hearts.
In 1996, Marcus's agent arranged a meeting for a small low-budget movie with a then-unknown director named Guy Ritchie; Ritchie offered Marcus the role of Nick the Greek in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels alongside Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and Matthew Vaughn. Three years later, the film was released and garnered a high level of success.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels led to further movie roles. Marcus completed a small role in Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes ; he played Bouchon in Quills , alongside Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix and Geoffrey Rush; for Richard Eyre, he played Iris opposite Judi Dench and acted in Complete Female Stage Beauty with Claire Danes; and he also attained the role of Ted Ray in The Greatest Game Ever Played , directed by Bill Paxton.
Alongside a very successful movie career, Marcus also starred in several American, Canadian and UK television series: Starhunter 2300 , in which he played Rudolpho De Luna; he played the co-lead in the BBC series Cavegirl ; he played Banjo and Broadman in the adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather and The Colour of Magic , respectively; he starred in the two 20th anniversary episodes of "Casualty"; and Marcus also appeared in regular roles in Kingdom (with Stephen Fry) and Larkrise to Candleford. Marcus has also completed two films with the Wachowskis: Speed Racer and Ninja Assassin .
In 2012, Marcus appeared in five feature films: It’s A Lot, Two Days in the Smoke, Gridiron UK, AB Negative and Fast & Furious 6 . In April 2012, he completed filming for independent British gangster thriller Two Days in the Smoke, in which he played the hitman Ben, alongside Snatch star Alan Ford and Matt Di Angelo from BBC Hustle. [1] [2] Smoke director Ben Pickering cast him as the vengeful Max in his second feature, the British psychological thriller Welcome to Curiosity , due for release on 25 May 2018 in the US and Canada.
In July 2012, Marcus launched a new Gangster London walking tour in association with Brit Movie Tours, in which he explores the dark history of London's East End. [3] He also starred in Perry Bhandal's Interview with a Hitman (2012) as Traffikant, a Romanian Crime Boss, alongside Luke Goss.
In May 2013, Marcus played the roles of Varney, Homeless man, Letting Agent & First Guard in a BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere , adapted by Dirk Maggs.
| This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources .(July 2013) |
Marcus is married to Sarah and owns two small dogs, Fry and Ronnie. He has two main hobbies: golf and American Football, the latter of which he used to play and coach.
Marcus played American football in the UK for the BAFL One team Sussex Thunder and retired at the end of the 2007 season. He was interviewed for Sky Sports' Sunday NFL coverage after the Thunder's 2007 fixture at the Ipswich Cardinals. The interview, which was broadcast on 21 October 2007, discussed his acting career, as well as American Football. Marcus has been an offensive line coach at the London Olympians and at Valley Trojans.
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Moose | |
| 1991 | Hear My Song | Gordon | |
| 1992 | In Dreams | Policeman / Roman Guard | Television film |
| 1995 | Savage Hearts | Hector | |
| 1996 | Killer Tongue | Ralph | |
| 1997 | The Beautician and the Beast | Ivan | |
| Black Velvet Band | Nudge | Television film | |
| 1998 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Nick the Greek | |
| 1999 | Angela's Ashes | English Agent | |
| 2000 | Secrets & Lines | Animal | Television film |
| Sorted | Rob | ||
| Quills | Bouchon | ||
| 2001 | Fourplay | Davey | |
| Iris | Taxi Driver | ||
| Redemption Road | Joe | ||
| 2002 | AKA | Tommy | |
| Unconditional Love | Thug in Rain | ||
| 2003 | Don't Look Back | Uncle Max | |
| 2004 | The Baby Juice Express | Lenny von Something | |
| Stage Beauty | Thomas Cockerell | ||
| 2005 | The Greatest Game Ever Played | Ted Ray | |
| Kinky Boots | Big Mike | ||
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Security Goon | |
| 2009 | Ninja Assassin | Kingpin | |
| 2012 | The Hot Potato | Freddie | |
| Interview with a Hitman | Traffikant | ||
| 2013 | Getting Back to Zero | Tommy | |
| Fast & Furious 6 | Davies | ||
| Justin and the Knights of Valour | Guards 1,2 & 3 | Voice role | |
| It's a Lot | Mr. Hatherly | ||
| 2014 | AB Negative | Mr. Fines | |
| The Smoke | Ben | ||
| 2016 | The Pit and the Pendulum: A Study in Torture | The Prisoner | Short film |
| Sanctuary | Joseph | ||
| Gridiron UK | Eddie | ||
| Eliminators | George | ||
| 2017 | The Rizen | The Executioner | |
| Fanged Up | Reeves | ||
| Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story | Jack Whomes | ||
| 2018 | Walk like a Panther | 'Gladiator' Glenn Higgins | |
| Welcome to Curiosity | Max | ||
| 2019 | The Rizen: Possession | The Executioner | |
| 2020 | The Big Ugly | Big James | |
| TBA | †The Last Ferry | Cockney | In Production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Hardwicke House | Joe | Episode: "Prize-giving" |
| Brush Strokes | 2nd Pub Customer | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 6" | |
| 1988 | Rockliffe | Masked Spokesman | Episode: "Top Man" |
| 1989 | The Bill | Purkis | Episode: "Overspend" |
| Boon | Curly Robinson | Episode: "Do Not Forsake Me" | |
| 1989-91 | Birds of a Feather | Dave | Recurring role; 3 episodes |
| 1990 | ScreenPlay Firsts | Mal | Episode: "Arrivederci Millwall" |
| Stay Lucky | Neil | Episode: "Bring Back My Barny to Me" | |
| 1991 | Van der Valk | Burly Man | Episode: "Doctor Hoffmann's Children" |
| Billy Webb's Amazing Stories | Chip Shop Man | Episode: "Part Three" | |
| 1992 | Me, You and Him | Graham's Father | Episode: "On the Town" |
| Gone to Seed | Customer | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4" | |
| 1993 | The Bill | Wayne Smith | Episode: "The Law in Their Hands" |
| Paul Merton: The Series | Various | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 3" | |
| Red Dwarf | Bear Strangler McGee | Episode: "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" | |
| KYTV | Large Man | Episode: "Get Away with You" | |
| Between the Lines | Mortuary Assistant | Episode: "Some Must Watch" | |
| 1994 | 99-1 | McCarthy's Man / Pursuer | Episode: "The Hard Sell" |
| Frank Stubbs Promotes | Journalist | Episode: "Babies" | |
| Screen One | Newman | Episode: "Doggin' Around" | |
| 1995 | The Bill | Ade Lester | Episode: "Water Wings" |
| Crime Story | Gary Thompson | Episode: "Hot Dog Wars" | |
| The Glam Metal Detectives | Various | Recurring role; 5 episodes | |
| Rumble | Melvin | Series regular; 6 episodes | |
| Class Act | Geoff | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2" | |
| The Thin Blue Line | Terry | Episode: "Honey Trap" | |
| Coogan's Run | Gerald the Sumo Magician | Episode: "Thursday Night Fever" | |
| 1996 | Our Friends in the North | Cyril Hellyer | Episode: "1966" |
| Kavanagh QC | Baxter | Episode: "A Stranger in the Family" | |
| 1997 | The Detectives | Fat Reg | Episode: "The Curse of the Comanches" |
| Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... | Thug | Episode: "The Wrong Man" | |
| 1998 | The Bill | Tony Bladwell | Episode: "Heat and Light" |
| Real Women | Van Driver | Episode: "The Hitch" | |
| Dangerfield | Jay Butterfield | Episode: "Double Helix" | |
| 1999 | Adam's Family Tree | Bulgar the Bulgarian | Episode: "Here Comes the Hun" |
| Roger Roger | Detective Sergeant Calderwood | Episode: "Love Rules the Heart, Money Takes the Soul" | |
| 2000-04 | Starhunter | Rudolpho deLuna | Series regular; 44 episodes |
| 2002 | The Basil Brush Show | Santa Claus | Episode: "Molly Christmas" |
| Cavegirl | Dad | Series regular; 18 episodes | |
| 2004 | Mile High | Dave | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 3" |
| The Lenny Henry Show | Episode: "Revival Pilot" | ||
| Eyes Down | Bloke | Episode: "Thief" | |
| 2006 | Without a Trace | Roger | Episode: "Check Your Head" |
| Casualty | Tommy Indler | Episode: "Different Worlds" | |
| Terry Pratchett's Hogfather | Banjo Cropper | Miniseries; 2 episodes | |
| 2007 | Doctor Who | Jailer | Episode: "The Shakespeare Code" |
| Kingdom | Hill | Recurring role; 3 episodes | |
| The Bill | Cliff Taylor | Episode: "Crash Test" | |
| 2008 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Matthew Welby | Series regular; 10 episodes |
| Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic | Broadman | Miniseries; 1 episode | |
| Sunshine | Big Alan | Miniseries; 2 episodes | |
| Little Dorrit | Bath Attendant | Miniseries; 2 episodes | |
| 2011 | Midsomer Murders | Silas Trout | Episode: "The Night of the Stag" |
| 2012 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Dirty Douglas | Episode: "Five Go to Rehab" |
| 2013 | Holby City | Jarvis Well | Episode: "The End of the Beginning" |
| 2015 | Man Down | Nightclub Bouncer | Episode: "Perfect Woman" |
| EastEnders | Gordon Cook | Recurring role; 3 episodes | |
| 2016 | Benidorm | Joe Luis | Episode: "Teetotal Geoff" |
| Doctors | Dale Everly | Episode: "Home Help" | |
| The Coroner | Gobby Mitchell | Episode: "Those in Peril" | |
| 2017 | Will | Henry Austen | Episode: "The Two Gentlemen" |
| Starhunter Transformation | Rudolpho deLuna | Miniseries; 3 episodes | |
| 2017-18 | Starhunter ReduX | Rudolpho deLuna | Series regular; 8 episodes |
| 2019 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Andy Green | Episode: "A Bloody Brilliant Plan" |
| 2021 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nearby Patron | Episode: "The Gang's Still in Ireland" |
Nigel George Planer is a British actor, writer and musician. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has also appeared in Hairspray. He won a BRIT award in 1984 and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage and BAFTA awards.
Jason Iain Flemyng is an English actor. He is known for his work with British filmmakers Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn appearing in the Ritchie films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and appearing in Vaughns films Layer Cake (2004), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011).
Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee. It was first released in 1996 and published by Victor Gollancz. It came in 137th place in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the most loved British books of all time, making it one of fifteen books by Pratchett in the Top 200.
Ian William Richardson was a Scottish actor.
Mark Heap is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his roles in television comedies, including, Brass Eye, Big Train, Spaced, Jam, Green Wing, Friday Night Dinner, Upstart Crow, The World's End, and Benidorm.
Alan Ford is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Guy Ritchie gangster movies Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and from appearing as separate characters in eight episodes of The Bill. It was announced in November 2023 that the star was to appear in EastEnders with the character set to appear for an episode to coincide with the death of actor Anna Karen, who played Aunt Sal.
Raymond Stanley Lonnen was an English stage and television actor. His most prominent roles include Willie Caine in the ITV cult classic Cold War-era spy drama series, The Sandbaggers (1978–80), and also as Harry Brown in the television miniseries Harry's Game (1982).
Geoffrey Hutchings was an English stage, film and television actor.
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd. was the co-producer from the United Kingdom, and Le Sabre SA, an affiliate of Canal+, was the French co-producer, with major unofficial German participation by Das Werk.
Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Worcester.
Lorraine Chase is an English actress and former model. She became well known for her strong south east London accent and frequent use of cockney slang, and found fame through a series of television adverts for Campari before embarking on an acting career. She is best known for playing the role of Steph Stokes in ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2002 to 2006, with a brief return in 2013. Her partner, John Knight, died from cancer in 1996.
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather is a 2006 two-part British Christmas-themed fantasy comedy television miniseries adaptation of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, produced by The Mob, and first broadcast on Sky1, and in High Definition on Sky1 HD, over Christmas 2006. First aired in two 1.5-hour episodes on 17 and 18 December 2006 at 20:00 UTC, it was the first live-action film adaptation of a Discworld novel. In 2007, the two episodes were rerun on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day respectively on Sky One and Sky1 HD.
Michelle Suzanne Dockery is an English actress. She is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised her role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).
Oliver Mansour Jackson-Cohen is a British actor and model. He is best known for his role as Adrian Griffin in the 2020 adaptation of The Invisible Man and for his roles as Luke Crain and Peter Quint in the Netflix television programmes The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) respectively. He also had a recurring role in the 2013 television series Dracula and recently starred in the miniseries Wilderness (2023)
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic is a fantasy-comedy two-part British television adaptation of the bestselling novels The Colour of Magic (1983) and The Light Fantastic (1986) by Terry Pratchett. The fantasy film was produced for Sky1 by The Mob, a small British studio, starring David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Christopher Lee as the voice of Death. Vadim Jean both adapted the screenplay from Pratchett's original novels, and served as director.
Sinead Matthews is an English actress whose credits include film, television, radio and stage. As well as having extensive theatre experience, her screen credits include He Knew He Was Right (2004), Vera Drake (2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Ideal (2005-2010), Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006), Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Black Mirror (2013), The Smoke (2014), Jellyfish (2018), The Crown (2019), and Hullraisers (2022).
Peter Chelsom is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as Hector and the Search for Happiness, Serendipity, and Shall We Dance? Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild of America, and The Writers Guild of America.
David Alan Hughes is an English Musician, Soundtrack Composer and Film Producer.
Fox Jackson-Keen is an English stage and television actor, singer and dancer. He is known for his shared performances in a two and a half-year run as the star role of 'Billy' in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. He has appeared as Mobbsy in the 26 episode live action children's comedy series, My Phone Genie, on ITV and CITV.
Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic and continued until the final novel The Shepherd's Crown, which was published in 2015, following Pratchett's death. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from classic works, usually fantasy or science fiction, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, and often use them for satirical parallels with cultural, political and scientific issues.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
