Which actor played George Cowley in the ITV series 'The Professionals'?
"various shots of Gordon Jackson followed by a pan to a close-up shot of a typewriter and various shots of Martin Shaw running through an oil refinery and wielding a kendo stick. Then it cuts to shots of Lewis Collins walking down a high street, weightlifting, and using a punching bag before cutting to a car driving through a dimly lit tunnel, George Cowley/Gordon Jackson walking out of a government building (10 Trinity Square, City of London) and the three of them walking down the street away from the building and towards the camera. The whole sequence is fast-paced, hinting"
"to magazines and includes over 200 black and white photographs as well as extensive interviews with actors, producers, writers, directors and other production team members, discussing their work on the series. This publication was also foreworded and given official endorsement by series creator Brian Clemens. In 2004 plans were being drawn up for a film version of ""The Professionals"" with Lewis Collins approached to play the part of Cowley, but after negotiations broke down the film was abandoned. In 2011, film company Lionsgate announced it had acquired the rights to ""The Professionals"" series and intended to begin shooting a movie"
"Charteris, said he had been suffering from cracked ribs and was taking antibiotics for a severe chest infection. An understudy went on in his place. Shaw won two awards in 1996 for his performance as Lord Goring in the Broadway production of ""An Ideal Husband"" and was nominated for a third: Martin Shaw Martin Shaw (born 21 January 1945) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the television series ""The Professionals"", ""The Chief"", ""Judge John Deed"" and ""Inspector George Gently"". He has also acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented"
"Martin Shaw Martin Shaw (born 21 January 1945) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the television series ""The Professionals"", ""The Chief"", ""Judge John Deed"" and ""Inspector George Gently"". He has also acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various television series, including the 2006 series """". Shaw was born in Birmingham. His childhood was spent in Erdington and Sutton Coldfield. According to him, his first stage appearance was at age three, during an amateur show in which his parents were performing. Shaw attended Great Barr School, where he excelled"
"British Actor of the Year and in 1979 he was made an OBE. Jackson was cast opposite Bette Davis for the American television film ""Madame Sin"" (1972), which was released in overseas markets as a feature film. His next big television role was in ""The Professionals"" from 1977. He played George Cowley in all 57 episodes until the programme's end in 1983, although filming had finished in 1981. He played Noel Strachan in the Australian Second World War drama ""A Town Like Alice"" (1981), winning a Logie Award for his performance. After ""A Town Like Alice"" and ""The Professionals"", Gordon"
"Hugh Bonneville Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the television series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a urological surgeon. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, an independent school in Dorset. Following secondary education, Bonneville read theology at Corpus Christi College,"
"to play a serial killer who mutilates women). The casting of Michael Caine was considered to be a major coup, as the actor was not known for doing television work. ""Jack the Ripper"" reportedly earned Caine a fee of $1 million. In the original version of the series, Abberline's partner George Godley was to have been played by Brian Capron. He was replaced by Lewis Collins (best known as Bodie in the ITV action series ""The Professionals""). American actor Armand Assante and British actress Jane Seymour, both well known to American audiences, were added to the cast at the suggestion"
"London children's charity Scene & Heard and an ambassador for WaterAid. Hugh Bonneville Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the television series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a urological surgeon. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, an independent school in"
"John Cowley (actor) John Cowley (8 September 1923 – 13 February 1998) was an Irish actor, best known for his role as paterfamilias, Tom Riordan, in the long-running RTÉ Television drama series, ""The Riordans"". From a farming background, Cowley was born in Navan, County Meath. He left school at the age of 13 to work on the family farm. Cowley entered the acting profession as a member of one of the touring companies that brought theatre to rural communities in Ireland up until the 1960s. In a bid to escape the impecunious life of a roving actor, he wrote to"
"CI5: The New Professionals CI5: The New Professionals is a British television action crime drama series, created and principally written by Brian Clemens, that first broadcast on Sky One on 19 September 1999. Billed as an updated version of the 1970s terrestrial television series ""The Professionals"", the series is set in a fictional government agency known as ""CI5"" (Civilian Intelligence Department 5). The original group of three men - Doyle, Bodie and their boss Cowley - are replaced by a team consisting of Harry Malone (Edward Woodward), Chris Keel (Kal Weber), Sam Curtis (Colin Wells) and Tina Backus (Lexa Doig)."
"due to financial issues. He also appeared in several episodes of the Starz hit series . He has since worked for the BBC editing movies and television series. Peter McCauley Peter McCauley (born 8 March 1950) is an actor from New Zealand who has appeared in many television series and movies, mainly in his home country. He has worked in television dramas such as ""Star Runner"" and ""Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World"" in which he played Professor George Challenger. His character on The Lost World was a scientist with a thirst to prove the existence of dinosaurs on"
"(1977); ""Return of the Saint"" (1978); ""Hammer House of Horror"" (1980); ""The Professionals"" (1980), episode ""Mixed Doubles"", in which he played the physical fitness and close quarters combat instructor of Bodie and Doyle; and the ""Doctor Who"", serial ""Warriors of the Deep"" (1984). Ian McCulloch (actor) Ian McCulloch (born 18 November 1939) is a Scottish actor of stage, film, and television. McCulloch is perhaps best known for his role as Greg Preston in the post-apocalyptic 1975-77 TV series ""Survivors"" and for his work in European genre cinema. McCulloch debuted in the second episode, ""Genesis"", of ""Survivors"". He also starred in"
"for Russell Watson/Faye Tozier) . Danny Seward Danny Seward is a British television actor who was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He started his career at the age of 15 under the tuition of David Johnson at the Oldham Theatre Workshop. He landed his first TV role in the soap ""Emmerdale"" for 3 episodes playing Greg Cox. Soon after, he won a major television role playing the part of cocky P.C Dean Wishaw in BBC2's award-winning TV series ""The Cops"". The show won two consecutive BAFTA awards for Best Drama Series in 1999 and 2000, plus an RTS award."
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"Lewis Collins Lewis Collins (27 May 1946 – 27 November 2013) was an English film and theatre actor. His career-defining role was playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s - early 1980s British television series ""The Professionals"". Collins was born in Bidston, Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire. At the age of two he won 'The Most Beautiful Baby in Liverpool' contest. He was educated at Bidston Avenue Primary School and Grange School in Birkenhead, and the Birkenhead Institute School. When he was 13 years of age his father bought him a drum kit. His first gig was playing with"
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"1976 episode (""I Talk to the Trees"") of the BBC situation comedy ""The Good Life"" as slightly eccentric allotment gardener Mr Wakeley. He also frequently broadcast and did a spell for the BBC as a member of their Drama Repertory Company (now the Radio Drama Company), one of his appearances being as Inspector Walter Neider in the 1965 Paul Temple radio episode, ""Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery"". Noel Howlett Noel Howlett (22 December 1902 – 26 October 1984) was an English actor, principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme ""Please Sir!""."
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"groups and espionage suspects, with plots sometimes relating to the Cold War. Led by the formidable George Cowley (Jackson), CI5 is known for using unconventional and sometimes illegal methods to beat criminals, or as Cowley put it ""Fight fire with fire!"" The use of a fictitious force in this context was somewhat less controversial than the portrayal of the real flying squad on ""The Sweeney."" Cowley's two best agents are Ray Doyle (Shaw) and William Bodie (Collins). Doyle is an ex-detective constable who has worked the seedier parts of London, while Bodie is an ex-paratrooper, mercenary and Special Air Service"
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"son, Ultan, is a writer and historian. John Cowley (actor) John Cowley (8 September 1923 – 13 February 1998) was an Irish actor, best known for his role as paterfamilias, Tom Riordan, in the long-running RTÉ Television drama series, ""The Riordans"". From a farming background, Cowley was born in Navan, County Meath. He left school at the age of 13 to work on the family farm. Cowley entered the acting profession as a member of one of the touring companies that brought theatre to rural communities in Ireland up until the 1960s. In a bid to escape the impecunious life"
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"professionals in 2000. It was included in the 1992 Dennis Potter retrospective at the Museum of Television & Radio and became a permanent addition to the Museum's collections in New York and Los Angeles. There was co-production funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released on DVD in the US on 15 April 2003 and in the UK on 8 March 2004. Mystery writer Philip E. Marlow is suffering writer's block and is hospitalised because his psoriatic arthropathy, a chronic skin and joint disease, is at an acute stage forming lesions and sores over his entire body, and partially"
"as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period. Andrews was cast as Skinner, one of twenty schoolboys. In 1974 he had a role in the production of Upstairs Downstairs as Lord Robert, Marquis of Stockbridge. In 1975 he had a leading role in the Spanish film ""Las adolescentes"" (The Adolescents), opposite Koo Stark. In June 1977, he was cast in the role of Bodie in the ITV series ""The Professionals"". However, after three days of filming, the creator and producer Brian Clemens felt that the chemistry between Andrews and Martin Shaw (Doyle) did not"
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"reference books on film and television, including ""Who's Who On the Screen"" (1983) and ""Who's Who on Television"" (1996), give his town of birth as Pontypridd, South Wales, instead of Oxford. In 2007, he took part in the BBC Wales programme ""Coming Home"" about his Welsh family history. After first training as an engineering draughtsman at the Cowley plant of Pressed Steel Company, Mower graduated from RADA. He first came to prominence as an actor in the spy series ""Callan"" in the early 1970s. Later he appeared as DCI Tom Haggerty in ""Special Branch"" alongside George Sewell, and Det. Supt."