David Calder (actor)

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image David Ian Calder (born 1 August 1946) is an English actor. His film and television credits include the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Crown Court, Boys from the Blackstuff, The Professionals, Enemy at the Door, Minder, Bergerac, The New Statesman, Between the Lines, Bramwell, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Heartbeat, Sleepers, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Hustle, Waking the Dead, Wallis & Edward, A Touch of Frost, Cold Blood, Burn Up, Lewis, Houdini, United, and The Last Front.

Life and career

Calder was born 1 August 1946 in Portsmouth, Hampshire,[1] and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[1] His most high-profile television roles include Det. Insp. George Resnick in the crime series Widows and Nathan Spring in the sci-fi drama Star Cops.[2][3] In 1989, he appeared in the adaptation of the David Lodge novel Nice Work.[1] In 2012 he portrayed Captain Edward Smith in the ITV mini-series Titanic.[4] From 2005–06, he took on the role of PC George Dixon in the radio adaptation of the BBC's long running television series Dixon of Dock Green.[5]

Calder's other television credits include Crown Court,[6] Boys from the Blackstuff,[6] The Professionals,[6] Enemy at the Door, Minder,[6] Bergerac, The New Statesman, Between the Lines,[6] Bramwell,[6] Cracker,[6] Dalziel and Pascoe,[6] Heartbeat,[6] Sleepers,[6] Spooks, Midsomer Murders,[6] Hustle,[6] Waking the Dead,[6] Wallis & Edward,[6] A Touch of Frost, Cold Blood,[6] Burn Up,[6] Lewis,[6] and Houdini.[7] He also appeared as Harold Hardman, the Manchester United chairman at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, in the TV drama United, aired by the BBC in April 2011.[8] In 2013, he played Mr Reid in The Wrong Mans.[1]

Calder appeared as Sir Robert King in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.[9] His other film appearances include Moonlighting (1982),[6] Defence of the Realm (1986),[6] American Friends (1991),[6] Hollow Reed (1996),[6] FairyTale: A True Story (1997),[6] The King Is Alive (2000),[6] Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006),[6] The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008),[6] and Rush (2013).[10]

In 1979, Calder appeared in a public information film as a crime prevention officer, asking people to consider how they would get into their own home if they lost their keys. The PIF, which was used to encourage people to make their homes secure, and to contact their crime prevention officer for advice, ran until at least 1985. In February 2010, Calder played Stuart Bell in the television film On Expenses.[11]

In October 2016, Calder played Gus, in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner at the Hampstead Theatre.[12]

In October 2016, Calder appeared as Mr Bruff in the BBC mini-series The Moonstone and from October 2017 in the title role of Julius Caesar at the new Bridge Theatre.[13][14] This production was broadcast by National Theatre Live in March 2018.[15]

Also in 2018, Calder played a closeted gay man suffering from dementia on BBC's Call the Midwife.[16]

In 2024, Calder played Father Michael in the World War I television film The Last Front.[17]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1970 Template:Sortname J.C.
1978 Superman 3rd Crewman (Superman's 1st Night)
1979 All the Fun of the Fair Pat Collins
1982 Moonlighting Supermarket Manager
1986 Defence of the Realm Harry Champion
1991 American Friends Pollitt
1996 Hollow Reed Martin's Lawyer
1997 FairyTale: A True Story Harold Snelling
1999 Template:Sortname Sir Robert King
2000 Template:Sortname Charles
2001 Mr In-Between Tattooed Man
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Bishop of Grasse
2006 Goya's Ghosts Monk 1
2008 Template:Sortname Roger Wilson
2010 National Theatre Live: Hamlet Polonius
2011 United Harold Hardman
2013 Rush Louis Stanley
2015 Queen of the Desert Hugh Bell
2015 Template:Sortname Leo Fairchild
2017 Template:Sortname Terry Perkins
2018 National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar Caesar
2024 The Last Front Father Michael
Television
Date Title Role Notes
Template:Dts ITV Playhouse John Marriott Casting the Runes
Template:Dts Enemy at the Door Hoffman Episode: "No Quarter Given"
June-July 1981 Get_Lost! Det Sgt Tomlin Four episodes
Template:Dts Wynne and Penkovsky Greville Wynne
Template:Dts Bergerac Sir Clive Hamer Episode: "SPARTA"
1987 Star Cops Nathan Spring Series regular
Template:Dts Template:Sortname Douglas Episode: "Unreported Incident"
Template:Dts Sleepers Victor Chekhov
Template:Dts Screen One Chubb Episode: "A Question of Attribution"
Template:Dts Screen Two Abbé de L'Epée Episode: "The Count of Solar"
Template:Dts Friday on My Mind Wing Commander Donahue
Template:Dts Covington Cross Abbott Episode: "The Persecution"
Template:Dts The New Statesman Le Cul Episode: "Heil and Farewell"
Template:Dts Template:Sortname Robert Legge Episode: "Death at the Bar"
Template:Dts Between the Lines Leavis Episode: "The End User" (2 parts)
Template:Dts Cracker Michael Harvey Episode: "Brotherly Love" (3 parts)
Template:Dts Dalziel and Pascoe James Marsham Episode: "Cunning Old Fox"
Template:Dts Heartbeat Saul Arkwright Episode: "The Shoot"
Template:Dts Spooks Sergei Lermov Episode: "The Rose Bed Memoirs"
Template:Dts Midsomer Murders George Hamilton Episode: "Birds of Prey"
Template:Dts Template:Sortname Richard Martin Episode: "A Traitor to Memory"
Template:Dts Hustle Victor Maher Episode: "Cops and Robbers"
Template:Dts Waking the Dead Commander Bill Drake Episode: "Cold Fusion"
Template:Dts Trial & Retribution William Thorpe Episode: "The Lovers"
Template:Dts Template:Sortname Kenneth Shaw Episode: "Endangered Species"
Template:Dts Heartbeat DI Ludlow Episode: "Night Mail"
Template:Dts Casualty Roy Parks Episode: "Into the Fog"
Template:Dts Agatha Christie's Marple Dermot Episode: “The Blue Geranium”
Template:Dts Lewis Andrew Lipton Episode: "The Indelible Stain"
Template:Dts Mr Selfridge King Edward VII Episode: "Episode 10"
Template:Dts Father Brown Sir Aaron Armstrong Episode: "The Three Tools of Death"
Template:Dts DCI Banks Jack Barber Episode: "Piece of My Heart"
Template:Dts Casualty Phillip Perry Episode: "A Life Less Lived"
Template:Dts Vera Frank McAffee Episode: "The Sea Glass"
Template:Dts Inside No. 9 Percy Episode: "Once Removed"
Template:Dts Call the Midwife Donald Episode: "Episode 8"
2021 Time John Cobden 3 episodes
2021 The Trick Sir David King TV film [17]
2017-2022 Motherland Geoff 3 episodes
2024 Doctors Lord Rodney Carleton S24 - E224 & 225
Podcast series
Date Title Role Notes
2019-2020 The Lovecraft Investigations Henry Akeley 11 episodes (Radio 4)
2023 The Victory of Joan of Arc Fontaine Podcast series

References

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