Ian McNeice
British actor
Ian McNeice
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1950-10-02
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2 October 1950
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Basingstoke
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Hampshire
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Occupation | Actor |
Television |
B&B
(1992)
Doc Martin (2004–2022) Rome (2005–2007) Doctor Who (2010–2011) |
Spouse | Katie Nicholls (separated) |
Children | 3 |
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Ian McNeice (born 2 October 1950) is an English film and television actor. He found fame portraying government agent Harcourt in the 1985 television series Edge of Darkness , and went on to feature in popular films such as The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain , Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Frank Herbert's Dune .
He played the Newsreader in historical drama Rome (2005–2007) and Bert Large in the comedy drama series Doc Martin (2004–2022).
Early life and education
McNeice was born in Basingstoke , Hampshire. His acting training started at the Taunton School in Somerset, followed by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and two years at the Salisbury Playhouse . The next few years were spent in theatre, including a four-year period with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a production of Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway . [1] [2]
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Career
McNeice's television breakthrough was as Harcourt in the award-winning series Edge of Darkness . He played the alcoholic sous chef Gustave LaRoche on the television series Chef! , and went on to appear in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune as the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen , a role he later reprised for the 2003 sequel Children of Dune . His television appearances have included all ten series of Doc Martin , in which he plays Bert Large, series 4 episode 4 of Midsomer Murders , and the third episode of the second series of Lewis . He appears as the Newsreader in the HBO / BBC production Rome and as the Mr. Tapling of the British diplomatic service in Hornblower - The Examination for Lieutenant. [ citation needed ]
McNeice has also appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road , Day of the Dead , No Escape , From Hell and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain . [3] His breakthrough into American films occurred when he played Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). He played the Nazi Gerhard Klopfer in the 2001 BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy . [4]
Since then, he has been in Around the World in 80 Days (2004) and the 2005 supernatural thriller White Noise . [5] He also appeared as Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . [ citation needed ]
McNeice gave his distinctive voice and accent to voice-acting roles like the Vogon character Kwaltz , director of the Vogon Constructor Fleet , in the 2005 film adaptation of Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . In 2007, he made his Doctor Who debut when he guest-starred as villain Zeus in the Big Finish BBC Digital Radio 7 drama Immortal Beloved . He had a cameo role as Joachim von Kortzfleisch , a German general who refused to put his troops under the command of officers plotting to depose Hitler's government, in Valkyrie . [6]
McNeice was initially cast in the role of Illyrio Mopatis in the HBO pilot of Game of Thrones , but because of scheduling conflicts the role was then given to Roger Allam . [7] McNeice appeared as Winston Churchill [8] in four episodes of Doctor Who in 2010 and 2011; he had previously played Churchill in the 2008 premiere production of the Howard Brenton play Never So Good , and later played him again in the 2012 stage version of The King's Speech . [9]
McNeice also starred as The Architect in the 2017 independent feature film, The House of Screaming Death . [10] [11] [12]
Personal life
McNeice has three children. [13]
Selected filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1982 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Wackford Squeers / Scaley / Croupier | TV series |
1983 | The Cleopatras | Alexander | TV series |
1983 | Grizzly II: The Concert | Bernie | |
1983 | Voice Over | "Fats" Bannerman | |
1984 | Minder | Eric Morgan | Episode: "Rocky Eight and a Half" |
1984 | Top Secret! | Blind souvenir salesman | |
1985 | The Optimist | Thug | Episode: "The Light Fantastic" |
1985 | Edge of Darkness | Harcourt | TV Mini-Series |
1986 | Whoops Apocalypse | Thrush | |
1987 | Personal Services | Harry | |
1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Bill Humphries | |
1987 | Cry Freedom | Uncredited | |
1987 | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Bernard Rice | |
1987 | Sputniks, Bleeps and Mr.Perry | Geoffrey Perry | TV drama/documentary |
1987 | A Perfect Spy | Sefton Boyd | |
1988 | The Raggedy Rawney | Farmer | |
1989 | Valmont | Azolan | |
1989 | Around the World in 80 Days | Batcular | TV Mini-Series |
1990 | 1871 | Prince of Wales | |
1990 | The Russia House | Merrydew | |
1991 | Secret Friends | First Businessman | |
1991 | Lovejoy | Gervais Rackham | |
1991 | Inspector Wexford, Ruth Rendell Mysteries - Episode "Murder Once Being Done" | Ivan Teal | |
1991 | Miss Pym's Day Out | Vicar of Finstock | |
1992 | Year of the Comet | Ian | |
1992 | B & B | Horace Gilbert | |
1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | George Collard | TV film |
1992 | An Ungentlemanly Act | Dick Baker | TV film |
1993 | Don't Leave Me This Way | Oscar Ghilardi | |
1993 | Inspector Morse | Pathologist | TV series |
1993 | Age of Treason | Casca | TV film |
1994 | No Escape | King | |
1994 | The Wimbledon Poisoner | Dent | TV mini series |
1995 | Pie in the Sky | Barry Wilkes | "The Mystery of Pikey" S2:E9 |
1995 | Funny Bones | Stanley Sharkey | |
1995 | Sharpe's Battle | Wagonmaster-General Colonel Runciman | TV film |
1995 | The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain | George Garrad | |
1995 | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | Fulton Greenwall | |
1996 | Chef! | Gustave LaRoche | TV series |
1996 | Cadfael : The Devil's Novice | Canon Eluard | TV series |
1997 | The Beautician and the Beast | Iva Grushinsky | |
1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Mayhew | |
1998 | How to Make the Cruelest Month | Peggy Asks | |
1998 | Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant | Mr. Tapling | TV film |
1999 | The Auteur Theory | Sir Maximilian Fair Brown | |
1999 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Potiphar | |
1999 | The Cherry Orchard | Pishchik | |
1999 | A Christmas Carol | Fezziwig | TV film |
1999 | David Copperfield | Mr. Dick | TV film |
2000 | Longitude | Astronomer Royal Doctor Nathanial Bliss | TV series |
2000 | Frank Herbert's Dune | Baron Vladimir Harkonnen | TV miniseries |
2000 | The Sleeper | Mr. Tarburck | TV film |
2000 | The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz | Inspector | |
2001 | Anazapta | Bishop | |
2001 | The Body | Dr. Sproul | |
2001 | Town & Country | Peter Principal | |
2001 | Conspiracy | Dr. Gerhard Klopfer | TV film |
2001 | The Fourth Angel | MI5 officer Lewison | |
2001 | From Hell | Dr. Robert Drudge | |
2002 | Amnèsia | Doug Chandler | |
2002 | Man and Boy | Nigel Batty | |
2002 | The Final Curtain | Priest | |
2003 | Chaos and Cadavers | Harry Kane | |
2003 | Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | Baron Vladimir Harkonnen | TV miniseries |
2003 | I'll Be There | Graham | |
2003 | Blackball | Hugh the Sideburns | |
2004 | Spartacus | Lentulus Batiatus | TV film |
2004 | Spooks | Judge | Series 3 Episode 6 |
2004 | Freeze Frame | Forensic Profiler Saul Seger | |
2004 | Around the World in 80 Days | Colonel Kitchener | |
2004 | The Rocket Post | Alex Miln | |
2004 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Quizmaster | |
2004–2022 | Doc Martin | Bert Large | TV series |
2005 | White Noise | Raymond Price | |
2005 | Cherished | Bill Bache | TV film |
2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Kwaltz | Voice |
2005 | Oliver Twist | Limbkins | |
2005–2007 | Rome | The Newsreader | TV series |
2006 | The Black Dahlia | Coroner | |
2007 | New Tricks | Michael Meadowcroft | Series 4 Episode 8 |
2008 | Day of the Dead | DJ Paul | |
2008 | Valkyrie | Joachim von Kortzfleisch | |
2009 | Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer | Cassius Dio (Historian) | TV film |
2010 – 2011 | Doctor Who | Winston Churchill | 4 episodes |
2010 | Jonathan Creek | Father Roderick Alberic | |
2012 | Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger | Mr. Peterson Senior | Film |
2012 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Mayor Sapsea | TV film |
2017 | We Are Tourists | Harry | |
2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Edward Chapman | Film |
2017 | The House of Screaming Death | The Architect | Film |
2021 | Foundation | Master Statistician Tivole | Apple TV+ Series |
2022 | The Sandman | Bartender | Episode: "The Sound of Her Wings" |
2023 | Napoleon | TBA | Film |
References
- ↑ "Ian McNeice" . Theatricalia.com .
- ↑ "Ian McNeice – Broadway Cast & Staff" . IBDb.com .
- ↑ "Ian McNeice" . 2.bfi.org .
- ↑ "Conspiracy (2001)" . 2.bfi.org .
- ↑ "Ian McNeice | Movies and Filmography" . Allmovie.com .
- ↑ "Valkyrie (2008) - Bryan Singer | Cast and Crew | AllMovie" . Allmovie.com . Retrieved 25 October 2021 .
- ↑ "Illyrio recast" . Winter-Is-Coming.net. 16 September 2010 . Retrieved 29 October 2011 .
- ↑ "First Smith 'Doctor Who' titles confirmed" . Digital Spy . 3 February 2010 . Retrieved 3 February 2010 .
- ↑ "The King's Speech play has its world premiere" . BBC News . 3 February 2012 . Retrieved 3 February 2012 .
- ↑ "April Updates – The House of Screaming Death Completes Post Production" . 29 March 2017. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017 . Retrieved 29 March 2017 .
- ↑ "Top actor Ian McNeice to star in Black Country horror flick" . Express & Star . 3 May 2016 . Retrieved 29 March 2017 .
- ↑ "House of Screaming Death Completes Post-Production, Celebrates By Releasing 3 New Stills" . Horror Society . 28 March 2017 . Retrieved 29 March 2017 .
- ↑ "The tragic story behind Ian McNeice's dating and married life, his wife, girlfriend and children" - Hitberry.com
External links
- Ian McNeice at the British Film Institute
- Ian McNeice at IMDb
- Ian McNeice at the Internet Broadway Database
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