"The actor John Simm played the detective ""Sam Tyler"" in which BBC TV drama?"
"series 3 finale explains that the 'Gene Hunt world' is in fact a purgatory for police officers with the Railway Arms pub acting as a 'gateway' to heaven. Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) DI Alexandra ""Alex"" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, ""Ashes to Ashes"". The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole. The character of Alex Drake is the main protagonist of ""Ashes to Ashes"", the sequel to the 2006 series ""Life on Mars"", which followed the story of Sam Tyler (John Simm) who wakes in 1973"
"(John Simm), a policeman in service with the Greater Manchester Police (GMP). After being hit by a car in 2006, Tyler awakens in 1973 to find himself working for a predecessor of the GMP, the Manchester and Salford Police, at the same station and location as in 2006. Early on in the series, it becomes apparent to Tyler that he awakes as a Detective Inspector, one rank lower than his 2006 rank of Detective Chief Inspector. As part of the Criminal Investigation Department, Tyler finds himself working under the command of Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Throughout the two series, the"
"Tom Chambers (actor) Thomas Stuart Chambers (born 22 May 1977) is an English actor, known for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical dramas ""Holby City"" and ""Casualty"" and as Max Tyler in BBC drama series ""Waterloo Road"". He also won the sixth season of ""Strictly Come Dancing"" with his partner Camilla Dallerup. Chambers was born and raised in a small village called Darley Dale in Derbyshire and was educated at Repton School. In December 2000, Chambers came close to death when the British Airways flight on which he was travelling from London to Nairobi was disrupted in"
"There then followed a variety of roles during which time he honed his craft in front of the camera, including a psycho in ""The Bill"", a lovestruck schoolboy in ""Heartbeat"", and a drugged-up burglar in ""The Locksmith"". He also made two series of the BBC sitcom ""Men of the World"", playing the lead role of Kendle Bains. His next project saw him take the role of Gary Kingston, a deluded murderer, in ""Chiller"". In 1995, Simm played the troubled teenager Bill Preece in the acclaimed ITV police drama ""Cracker"". This is considered his breakthrough role. He also made his feature"
"Hunt and Sam Tyler are their differing policing methods. Such as, Hunt has been described as ""not being scared of throwing a few punches to get a result"", whereas both Tyler and Alex Drake are present day detectives who value forensic evidence and thorough investigative techniques rather than corruption and violence. John Simm, the actor who plays Sam Tyler, has stated that both his character and Hunt have a grudging respect for the other's approach to policing. As well as Hunt seeing much of his younger self in Tyler However, Hunt and Tyler's relationship eventually improves after Tyler returns to"
"that he played Raskolnikov in the BBC adaptation of ""Crime and Punishment"", adapted by Tony Marchant. Marchant also wrote ""The Knight's Tale"", one of a series of modern reworkings of ""The Canterbury Tales"", in which Simm played Ace. Later that year, Simm starred opposite Christina Ricci and John Hurt in the film ""Miranda"". In 2004, he played the researcher and charity investigator Daniel Appleton in the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 drama ""Sex Traffic"". This two-parter followed the plight of two young Moldovan sisters sold into sexual slavery. After playing Dr. Bruce Flaherty in Howard Davies' production of Joe Penhall's ""Blue/Orange"","
"in the UK production of Top Hat. The show opened on 16 August 2011 at the Milton Keynes Theatre, touring the United Kingdom before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End. Chambers left the production on 4 February 2013. 13. In 2015 he was a judge on the arena tour of Strictly Come Dancing Tom Chambers (actor) Thomas Stuart Chambers (born 22 May 1977) is an English actor, known for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical dramas ""Holby City"" and ""Casualty"" and as Max Tyler in BBC drama series ""Waterloo Road"". He also won the"
"aired in January 2014, and Simm completed work on the three-part thriller ""Prey"", in which he plays detective Marcus Farrow. The mini-series began airing on 28 April 2014 on ITV. In February 2014, Simm began filming the BBC America eight-parter ""Intruders"" in Vancouver, British Columbia. He plays ex-LAPD officer Jack Whelan. The series aired on BBC America in August 2014. In addition to this, he completed the second season of ""The Village"" in Derbyshire. Later that year Simm played Alec Jeffreys, the man who discovered DNA fingerprinting, in ""Code of a Killer"", a 2-part drama for ITV. In 2015, he"
"Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) and Trevor Stewart (William Armstrong), as well as former main character Superintendent Tom Adams (John McGlynn), and brand new character DS Stanley Sharman, with Burton generally appearing on the front cover of each novel. The fifth novel, due to be published in 2003, was placed on indefinite hold, and has never been released. The use of forensic pathology in the investigation of crime has been the central theme of several TV mystery-suspense dramas, including: Silent Witness Silent Witness is a British television crime drama series, produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic"
"the Sheffield Crucible. In 2011, Simm starred in ""Mad Dogs"" on Sky 1. Simm plays Baxter in a project that reunited him with Philip Glenister and Marc Warren along with Max Beesley and Ben Chaplin. ""Mad Dogs"" became a critical and ratings success and received a BAFTA nomination for best drama serial, and a second and third series were commissioned. ""Mad Dogs 2"" was shot in Mallorca and Ibiza in late 2011, and appeared on Sky 1 in January 2012, the same time as ""Mad Dogs 3"" was being shot in South Africa. On BBC One in May 2011, Simm"
"filmed at Sunset Bronson studios and on location around Los Angeles. Simm played the character of Rhys Griffiths, a recurring character in Season 1 and a regular in Season 2. On 6 April 2017, the BBC confirmed that Simm would be reprising his role as the Master in the tenth series of ""Doctor Who""; he appears in the two-part finale, ""World Enough and Time"" / ""The Doctor Falls"". In April 2004, Simm married actress Kate Magowan in the Forest of Dean; they have a son and a daughter. He is a supporter of Manchester United. and a self confessed ""Beatles"
"Dr. Kevin Tyler since 2011 in the BBC daytime soap ""Doctors"". He departed the show on 30 October 2014. Simon Rivers led a drama workshop in Chippenham for the Chippenham Youth Theatre group (CYT and explained what it was like to be an actor on Doctors. Simon Rivers Simon Rivers (born Amardip Singh Nahal in 1978) is an English actor who played the role of Kevin Tyler in Doctors. Born in Birmingham, West Midlands to Sikh parents who had immigrated from the Punjab, he speaks fluent Hindi and Punjabi. When he was five his family moved to Berkshire. Undertaking a"
"as the daughter left alone to cope with it, seeing her life passing before her, and Simm's Tom driving back into their lives cursing the emptiness of his London media career [...]"". ""The Guardian"" review found ""only a few missteps in Danny Brocklehurst's otherwise impeccable script"", and part of the series ""too pat"", with ""by-numbers triumphalism"", but praised ""the ingenious conceit of a mystery story in which the quest for the truth is foiled by an Alzheimer's sufferer catalysed a well-plotted drama, executed without exploitativeness and, in Simm's case, played more tenderly than I'd have thought him capable."" ""Radio Times'"
"eventually attracted the attention of BBC Wales' Julie Gardner, who persuaded the Head of Drama for the BBC, Jane Tranter, to commission the programme from BBC Wales for BBC One. John Yorke left Channel 4 to rejoin the BBC and together with Julie Gardner, he acted as joint commissioning editor on the show for its entire run. The programme's central character was originally to have been named ""Sam Williams"", but Kudos felt this not to be striking enough and requested Graham devise an alternative surname. Graham asked his young daughter for her opinion and she suggested ""Sam Tyler"", which became"
"Simm, Peter Egan and Kevin McNally. Lawrence Gordon Clark, a former showrunner for the BBC's ""Ghost Story for Christmas"", acts as executive producer, alongside David Reynolds and Peter Lover. The series' opening episode, ""Propechy"", was adapted from a story by novelist Peter James. The complete series of ""Chiller"" was released on Region 2 DVD via Network Distributing on 1 July 2013. Shout! Factory, copyright holders of the series, uploaded all five episodes to YouTube on 31 October 2018 as part of their Halloween celebrations. George Bass, writing for ""The Guardian"" wrote; """"Chiller"" is worth it for Toby alone, but the"
"the opening episode of the BBC drama ""Clocking Off"", written by Paul Abbott, with whom he would work again in 2002 when he starred as Cal McCaffrey in the multi-award-winning political thriller series ""State of Play"". Simm also played the lead role of loan shark John Parlour in Tony Marchant's ""Never Never"" for Channel 4. In 2002, Simm featured in another Michael Winterbottom film, ""24 Hour Party People"", as New Order frontman Bernard Sumner. At a live concert in Finsbury Park that same year, Simm sang the Joy Division song ""Digital"" onstage with New Order. It was also this year"
"Sam Snyders Sam Snyders (also known as ""Sammy Snyders""), is a former television and film child actor from Canada. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is best known for his role as Tom Sawyer in the 1979 Canadian television series, ""Huckleberry Finn and His Friends"", alongside Ian Tracey who played Huckleberry Finn, and for his role as Jamie Benjamin in the 1981 horror film ""The Pit"". In 1980, Snyders starred on the second season of the nationally syndicated American situation comedy, ""The Baxters"". On the series, Snyders played Gregg Baxter, the son of an average middle-class family living in a suburb"
"by the characters under his command, mainly Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) and Ray Carling (Dean Andrews). During the two series, Hunt often uses unnecessary force while making arrests and conducting interviews, along with practising ""noble-cause corruption"" demonstrated by his fabrication and falsifying of evidence in order to secure convictions but never for personal gain. In response to this, he has been referred to as an ""old style cop"" and ""maverick"". Hunt also believes that there is a ""very fine line between a criminal and a copper"". Hunt often clashes with Sam Tyler (John Simm), the protagonist of the series. Eventually,"
"(Each of the book titles is a play on a pop culture phrase or film title that is of, or relevant to, the '70s, those being ""Blood, Bullets and Babes"", ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""Borstal Boy"" and ""Get Carter""). Life on Mars (UK TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007. The series combines elements of speculative fiction and police procedural, featuring a present-day police officer from the Greater Manchester Police (played by John Simm) who wakes up in 1973 after being involved in a road"
"starred as Tom Rondstadt in ""Exile"". His performance earned him his second BAFTA nomination for best actor. From 17 May to 9 June 2012, Simm starred as Jerry in a revival of Harold Pinter's ""Betrayal"" at the Crucible Theatre. He plays John Middleton in ""The Village"", a 6-part BBC drama which portrays life in a Derbyshire village during World War I. From May to August 2013, he returned to Trafalgar Studios in London's West End to star opposite Simon Russell Beale in a new production of Harold Pinter's ""The Hothouse"", directed by Jamie Lloyd. The final instalment of ""Mad Dogs"""
"Exile (TV series) Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly positive reviews. John Simm received a BAFTA nomination for his role as Tom Ronstadt, as did the director John Alexander. In mostly positive reviews, script and performances were praised, with criticism directed toward clichéd elements of the story. Reviewing the first episode, Amol Rajan of ""The Independent"" found the storytelling ""glorious"", and that ""it engaged very directly with highly topical"
"Bank Pictures, the same production company responsible for other series including BBC One's ""Wallander"" and Sky1's ""Strike Back"". It continues Sky's commitment to investing in new dramas with all-star casts. The series sees the return of John Simm and Philip Glenister, who previously worked together on the BBC One series ""Life on Mars"". A casting note once went awry when ""Tony Blair"" (the armed man in a Tony Blair mask) was misspelled as ""Tiny Blair"". As a result, six dwarfs auditioned for the part, and one of them ended up being cast in the role. Filming began in May 2010"
"winning drama ""Broadchurch"". He reprised the role for the programme's second and third series. In 2014, Sims voiced Creighton the Wanderer & Magerold of Lanafir in ""Dark Souls II"". He also portrayed the murderer of Joanna Yeates, Dutchman Vincent Tabak, in the BAFTA winning ITV docu-drama ""The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies"". In 2016, Sims played the recurring role of Greff who is the head of the mining community in ITV's ""Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands"". In 2017 he appeared in Fox TV's Houdini & Doyle, Midsomer Murders, Sci-Fi cult hit Red Dwarf and Series 2 of Stan Lee's Lucky"
"Simon Rivers Simon Rivers (born Amardip Singh Nahal in 1978) is an English actor who played the role of Kevin Tyler in Doctors. Born in Birmingham, West Midlands to Sikh parents who had immigrated from the Punjab, he speaks fluent Hindi and Punjabi. When he was five his family moved to Berkshire. Undertaking a series of supporting roles, he took a two-year degree course at RADA, followed by theatre work. After taking parts in various television series, including ""Casualty"", he played Dr Ameer Mowad in the two series of the BBC Wales production, ""Crash."" He is best known for playing"
"sang at ""Love letter to Dan"", a Gala tribute to Dan Crawford, the late founder of the King's Head Theatre. Kim Medcalf Kim Medcalf is an actress and singer. She is known for playing the role of Sam Mitchell in the long-running BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"" from 2002 to 2005. In 2001, Medcalf landed the role of Sam Mitchell, taking over from Danniella Westbrook. She filmed her first scenes with Barbara Windsor in Spain, which aired in January 2002. Shortly after joining EastEnders she was involved in a car accident whilst in France. The accident left her with multiple broken"
"tour; and ""'Art'"" in the West End. He played Eddie Carbone in ""A View from the Bridge"" at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in early 2011. His portrayal of Sims in ""The Nether"" for director Jeremy Herrin at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2014 won critical acclaim. Townsend's television credits include: ""Zen"", ""Whistleblower"", ""He Kills Coppers"", ""Prosperity"", ""Saddam's Tribe"", ""Rough Diamond"", ""Waking The Dead"", ""Spooks"", ""The Virgin Queen"", ""Hustle"", ""Omagh"", ""The Brief"", ""Murder Squad"", ""Fallen"", ""Wire in the Blood"", ""The Commander"", ""Menace"", ""Seventh Stream"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Station Jim"", ""Table 12"", ""Casualty"", ""Best of Both Worlds"", ""Active Defence"", ""DDU (Making"
"in the 2007 gay drama film by Channel 4 ""Clapham Junction"", where he played Will, who is entering a civil partnership. He was also in ""The Bank Job"" in 2008 playing an MI5 officer ordered to retrieve the embarrassing proceeds of a bank robbery in 1970s London. Other films include ""Syriana"", ""Page Eight"", ""Malaventura"", and ""The Calling"". Lintern also appeared in the third series of the television drama, ""The House of Eliott"". In 2011 he appeared in the BBC series ""The Shadow Line"", and in 2012 in ""Hunted"" for BBC One and HBO. He played Hector Stokes. He played Thomas"
"have thought him capable"". ""Caitlin Moran, The Times, 7 May, On TV."" ""Danny Brocklehurst's script shamed most of his peers - keeping the dialogue real, yet without pouring out the can marked Genuine Real Northern Dialogue. Minute by minute this was exhilaratingly good television. It's hard to know at whom to throw the greatest plaudits. There wasn't a single thing wrong with this programme."" Exile (TV series) Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One."
"role. In 2011 Mirallegro appeared in the BBC's three-part psychological thriller ""Exile"", playing the teenage version of leading character Tom Ronstadt (played by John Simm). Later in the same year Mirallegro played the role of Sam, a gay heroin addict in the BBC drama ""The Body Farm"". In 2013 he portrayed Finn Nelson, the love interest of the main female character in E4's popular teenage comedy drama ""My Mad Fat Diary"". That same year he also played the role of Joe Middleton in the BBC drama ""The Village"". In 2014, Mirallegro portrayed a teenager prosecuted for murder under the Joint"
"""Doctor Who"". He appeared in the final three episodes of series three: ""Utopia"", ""The Sound of Drums"", and ""Last of the Time Lords"". When originally cast in the third series of Doctor Who, it was announced that he would be playing a character by the name of Mr Saxon, a name that was later revealed as an alias of the character he was portraying.He reprised the role in the 2009 two-part special ""The End of Time"". In 2008, Simm played Edward Sexby in ""The Devil's Whore"", a four-part English Civil War epic for Channel 4. He performed at the Royal"
"issues."" He stated that Broadbent confirmed ""his position alongside Ian McKellen, John Hurt and Michael Gambon as one of the greatest English actors of his generation"", and praised the ""outstanding performances, from a bewitching John Simm (playing his son Tom) and the reliably wonderful Olivia Colman (his daughter Nancy)."" ""The Daily Telegraph"" referred to the series as ""a powerful family drama trapped inside a clichéd tabloid thriller"", and ""so close to being brilliant. Instead, it was more of the same."" But the review praised the ""magnificent performances by Broadbent as a man in the grip of Alzheimer's, and Olivia Colman"
"series, was published in 2012. In March 2015, BBC Two announced ""The Gamechangers"", a 90-minute docudrama based on the creation of ""Grand Theft Auto"", Directed by Owen Harris and written by James Wood, the drama stars Daniel Radcliffe as Rockstar president Sam Houser and Bill Paxton as disbarred attorney Jack Thompson. In May 2015, Rockstar filed a lawsuit against the BBC for trademark infringement, stating that they had no involvement with the development of the film and had unsuccessfully tried to contact the BBC to resolve the matter. It first aired on 15 September 2015 on BBC Two. In 2006,"
"produced ""Whisper"" a ten-minute short film set in Sheppey. He met his wife Osmin during his time on ""London's Burning"" and the couple reside in London. In December 2008, he became a father for the first time with the birth of his daughter. He also has a son. His brother, Ben Callis, is a film director. Sam Callis Samuel Callis (born 1973) is an English actor and director, best known for his role as Callum Stone in ""The Bill"" and Adam Benjamin in ""London's Burning"". Callis grew up in Haslemere, Surrey and attended Camelsdale Primary School, Midhurst Intermediate School and"