"Which comedy actor played 'Uriah Heap' in the 1999 BBC adaptation of ""David Copperfield""?"
"a robust ego, affected great humility. In film and television adaptations, the character has been played by Peter Paget (1934), Roland Young (1935), Colin Jeavons (1966), Ron Moody (1969), Martin Jarvis (1974), Paul Brightwell (1986), Nicholas Lyndhurst (1999) and Frank MacCusker (2000). The British rock band Uriah Heep is named after the character. In the BBC television series ""Blake's 7"", the computer character Slave was described by Peter Tuddenham, who voiced it, as ""...a Uriah Heep type of character..."" A reference to the ""'umble' Uriah Heep is the arrant hypocrite"" is given in Augustus Hopkins Strong's ""Systematic Theology"" In Robert"
"David Copperfield (1974 TV serial) David Copperfield is a British six-part television serial of the Charles Dickens novel adapted by Hugh Whitemore, directed by Joan Craft and first shown on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974. It was a co-production with Time-Life Television Productions. This version was generally well received. In Clive James review for ""The Observer"" he wrote: """"David Copperfield"" is as good as everybody says. Steerforth's flaw is well conveyed by Anthony Andrews, and Uriah Heep, played by Martin Jarvis, is a miracle of unction: to hear him talk is like stepping on a toad"
"David Copperfield (1999 film) David Copperfield is a two-part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1850 novel of the same name, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day 1999 and the second on Boxing Day the same year. The production is notable for being the first screen work of actor Daniel Radcliffe, who would later achieve fame as the star of the ""Harry Potter"" films, where he would collaborate with his ""David Copperfield"" co-stars Maggie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker, Imelda Staunton, Dawn French and Paul Whitehouse. The series was co-produced by BBC America and Boston"
"but has no regrets. From 1997 to 1999, Lyndhurst was the public face of the stationery chain store WH Smith, starring in their adverts as all four members of one family. He won a BAFTA for his acting in the adverts. In 1999, he played the villainous Uriah Heep opposite Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe and Dame Maggie Smith in ""David Copperfield"". In 2006, he appeared as Cruella de Vil's chauffeur, Reg Farnsworth, at the Children's Party at the Palace. In 2007, Lyndhurst returned to the BBC with his first new sitcom in fourteen years, ""After You've Gone"", in which"
"Paul Brightwell Paul Brightwell is an English actor and director. He has acted in many different plays, films and TV shows since the late 1980s. Theatre direction includes the British premieres of Heiner Muller's ""Hamletmachine"" at the Gate Notting Hill, and Witkiewicz's ""They"" at the Polish Theatre in Hammersmith. Brightwell's first main role was as Uriah Heep in the TV Series ""David Copperfield"" in 1986. He went on to have parts in films and television shows, including ""Coronation Street"". In ""Titanic"", Brightwell played Quartermaster Hichens, the crew member who was at the ship's wheel at the time of RMS Titanic's"
"David Copperfield (comedian) David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow, 1947, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire), is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show ""Three of a Kind"", in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry. Copperfield began his professional career performing in various cabaret venues. His first TV appearances were on the ""Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club."" His big break in TV earned him appearances on ""Wogan"" and ""Cliff and Friends"". ""Three of a Kind"" ran from 1981 to 1983. After that, Copperfield worked on his own shows, ""Coppers &"
"Uriah Heep Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel ""David Copperfield"". Heep is one of the main antagonists of the novel. His character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own umbleness"". His name has become synonymous with sycophancy. David first meets the 15-year-old Heep when he comes to live with Mr Wickfield and his daughter Agnes, in chapter 15: Much of ""David Copperfield"" is autobiographical, and some scholars believe Heep's mannerisms and physical attributes to be based on Hans Christian Andersen, whom Dickens met shortly before"
"of Sir John Falstaff"". In 1963 he played the extremely reluctant hero Vadassy forced into espionage in ""Epitaph For a Spy"" for BBC Television. In 1966 Jeavons became well known for his definitive portrayal of Uriah Heep in the BBC's ""David Copperfield"". He appeared in a host of 1960s and 1970s TV programmes including ""Doctor Who"" (in ""The Underwater Menace""), ""Adam Adamant Lives!"" as a murderous fashion designer, as businessman Leonard Gold in ""The Sweeney"" (in the 1978 episode ""The Bigger They Are"") and ""The Avengers"" (in ""A Touch of Brimstone"" and ""The Winged Avenger""). Pete Stampede and Alan Hayes"
"Matthew Cottle Matthew Cottle (born 16 February 1967) is an English film, stage, radio and television actor. Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 ""Chaplin"" (as Stan Laurel), and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"". Cottle will also appear in ""The Personal History of David Copperfield"" in 2019. Cottle's recent theatre includes The Chalk Garden at Chichester Festival Theatre, Wonderland at the Nottingham Playhouse, ""How the Other Half Loves"" at the Haymarket Theatre and Duke of Yorks, ""Our Country's Good"", ""A Small Family"
"project and would eventually move with Jason to ITV, producing a loose four-part series called ""Micawber"" in 2001 with Jason in the title role. Lyndhurst remained with the production to play Uriah Heep and the role of Micawber was taken up by Bob Hoskins. David Copperfield is a posthumous child. He was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, six months after the death of his father, who was also called David Copperfield. On the night of David's birth, his Great-Aunt Betsey Trotwood arrives at the ""Rookery"" - the Copperfield family home - and eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby girl. She"
"He is an Arsenal supporter and has two children, a daughter named Hannah born in 1997 and a son named Harry born in 2000. Matthew Cottle Matthew Cottle (born 16 February 1967) is an English film, stage, radio and television actor. Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 ""Chaplin"" (as Stan Laurel), and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"". Cottle will also appear in ""The Personal History of David Copperfield"" in 2019. Cottle's recent theatre includes The Chalk Garden at Chichester Festival Theatre,"
"David Copperfield (1986 TV serial) David Copperfield is a 10 episode BBC serial broadcast in 1986 and 1987 and based on the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. The series was written by James Andrew Hall and directed by Barry Letts. It was produced by Terrance Dicks. The adaptation follows the story of David Copperfield as he grows up under the care of the cruel Murdstones after the death of his mother, escapes to the care of his aunt Betsey Trotwood and later travels to London where he meets the gentle Micawbers and the scheming Uriah Heep, and falls in"
"Co"" and ""Copperfield Comedy Company"". He then worked on cruise liners as an entertainer under the name David Copperfield - Not the Magician, including the QE2 on its final voyage to Dubai. In addition to comedy he sings, plays the violin, piano, guitar and mandolin and performs ventriloquism. He is particularly renowned for his acclaimed version of Classical Gas. David Copperfield (comedian) David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow, 1947, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire), is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show ""Three of a Kind"", in which he starred alongside Tracey"
"Leonard Cracknell Leonard Cracknell (20 January 1941 – 13 March 1998) was a British actor. Raised in Hornchurch, Essex, Cracknell was a television, radio, film and theatre actor, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. He first came to the attention of the British public in the late 1950s when he starred in one of the first BBC television costume dramas, the 1956 production of ""David Copperfield"". He played the lead role as the young David Copperfield, appearing on the front cover of the ""Radio Times"". As his acting career developed, he starred in the BBC television soap opera ""199 Park"
"Jeremy Brudenell Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell (born 2 April 1960) was a British stage, film and television actor during the 1980s and 1990s. Today he owns a garden centre in Oxford. Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell was born in Hammersmith, London. His father was Dr. John Michael Brudenell, a gynaecologist, and his mother, Mollie (née Rothwell) Brudenell. He appeared as James Steerforth in ""David Copperfield"" (1986), Charles Warden in ""Fortunes of War"" (1987), Louis Bonaparte in """" (1987), Jean-Louis in ""Wish Me Luck"" (1990), Sebastian Pearce in ""The House of Eliott"" (1991), Ken Bernhard in ""The Bill"" (1993), Robert de Valicourt/Nicholas"
"film as Magistrate Fang. He has had roles in four BBC Dickens adaptations: as Daniel Peggotty in ""David Copperfield"" (1999); as Inspector Bucket in ""Bleak House"" (2005); as Jeremiah and Ephraim Flintwinch in ""Little Dorrit"" (2008); and as Hiram Grewgious in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" (2012). Armstrong has been a fan of Dickens since reading ""David Copperfield"" aloud in school. He particularly remembered Dan Peggotty's houseboat on the beach, and in order to play the role he turned down an offer from Clint Eastwood, with whom he had worked on ""White Hunter Black Heart"". In the BBC drama series"
"David Copperfield (1969 film) David Copperfield is a 1969 British American international co-production television film directed by Delbert Mann based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens adapted by Jack Pulman. The film was made in the UK for 20th Century Fox Television with some exteriors filmed in Suffolk. Some interior scenes were filmed at The Swan Hotel in Southwold. The film starred Robin Phillips in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Micawber. Among other well-known actors featured were Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, Susan Hampshire, Cyril Cusack, Wendy Hiller, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave and Ron Moody."
"""The Rocky Horror Show"". Zig Byfield Trevor Mills ""Zig"" Byfield (20 October 1943 – 11 October 2017) was a British actor best known for his roles in ""Heartbeat"", ""EastEnders"", ""Casualty"", ""The Bill"", ""Holby City"", ""Coronation Street"", ""Family Affairs"", ""Doctors"", ""Only Fools and Horses"", ""One Foot in the Grave"", ""Birds of a Feather"", ""The Professionals"", ""Minder"", ""Spooks"", ""Lovejoy"", ""So Haunt Me"" and ""New Tricks"". Prior to his work in television and film he appeared in several stage musicals. These included the 1970s production of ""Hair"", where he appeared alongside Joan Armatrading, Richard O'Brien, Paul Nicholas and Floella Benjamin. He also appeared"
"Huw Higginson Huw Higginson (born 21 February 1964) is an English actor, best known for playing PC George Garfield in ""The Bill"" from 1989 to 1999. Higginson has also appeared in ""Heartbeat"", ""EastEnders"", ""Casualty"", ""By Any Means"" and ""Jessica"". He appeared as Mr Cunningham in two stories of ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" entitled ""The Day of the Clown"" and ""The Mark of the Berserker"". After relocating to Australia in 2014, Higginson has appeared in numerous Australian television programs and stage productions. Some of the roles he has played since moving to Australia include General Birdwood in ""Deadline Gallipoli"", Malcolm Hammill"
"David Copperfield (1993 film) David Copperfield is a 1993 traditionally animated musical feature-length adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel of the same name. It was directed by Don Arioli and features the voices of Sheena Easton, Julian Lennon, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Kelly Le Brock, Michael York, Joseph Marcell and many others. The human cast of characters are replaced with a cast of anthropomorphic animal versions of those same characters. It was made for and first broadcast on NBC during the holiday season in 1993. The movie is currently available on DVD from GoodTimes Entertainment. The film starts with a"
"Life Back"". In 2017, Bishop became the speaking voice for 2D, fictional lead singer of British virtual band Gorillaz. Kevin Bishop Kevin Brian Bishop (born 18 June 1980) is an English comedian, actor, writer and star of ""The Kevin Bishop Show"", which he co-wrote with Lee Hupfield. Bishop's first role was in ""Grange Hill"". His second role, at age 16, was as Ben Quayle in ""Silent Witness"". He played Stupid Brian in ""My Family""; he appeared in three episodes. He starred in ""Muppet Treasure Island"" as Jim Hawkins. In 2002, he played Dick in the pantomime, ""Dick Whittington"". In 2005,"
"Was Rome"" (1963), ""The Avengers"" (1969)), ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"" (in the episode ""Murder Ain't What It Used to Be"") (1969), ""Within These Walls"" (1974-5) and the short film ""The Orchard End Murder"" (1980). His final appearance was as an auction porter in ""Seen a Ghost"" (1997). Raymond Adamson Raymond John Adamson (July 7, 1920 – March 20, 2002) was a British television actor. Born in Beckenham, then in Kent, he made his TV debut in 1956, playing a constable in ""David Copperfield"". He became typecast playing policemen or lawmen, also playing policeman in series such as ""Oliver Twist"" (1962),"
"and ""My Hero"". Huw Higginson Huw Higginson (born 21 February 1964) is an English actor, best known for playing PC George Garfield in ""The Bill"" from 1989 to 1999. Higginson has also appeared in ""Heartbeat"", ""EastEnders"", ""Casualty"", ""By Any Means"" and ""Jessica"". He appeared as Mr Cunningham in two stories of ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" entitled ""The Day of the Clown"" and ""The Mark of the Berserker"". After relocating to Australia in 2014, Higginson has appeared in numerous Australian television programs and stage productions. Some of the roles he has played since moving to Australia include General Birdwood in ""Deadline"
"appeared as Rincewind in a 4-part Radio 4 adaptation of Terry Pratchett's ""Eric"". In 2014 it was announced that Heap will play the angel Aziraphale in the BBC radio adaption of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's ""Good Omens"". Mark Heap Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedies such as ""Spaced"", ""Brass Eye"", ""Big Train"", ""Jam"", ""Green Wing"", ""Upstart Crow"" and ""Friday Night Dinner"". Heap was born in Tamil Nadu, India, to an English father and American mother, the youngest of four boys. He began his acting career in the"
"Zig Byfield Trevor Mills ""Zig"" Byfield (20 October 1943 – 11 October 2017) was a British actor best known for his roles in ""Heartbeat"", ""EastEnders"", ""Casualty"", ""The Bill"", ""Holby City"", ""Coronation Street"", ""Family Affairs"", ""Doctors"", ""Only Fools and Horses"", ""One Foot in the Grave"", ""Birds of a Feather"", ""The Professionals"", ""Minder"", ""Spooks"", ""Lovejoy"", ""So Haunt Me"" and ""New Tricks"". Prior to his work in television and film he appeared in several stage musicals. These included the 1970s production of ""Hair"", where he appeared alongside Joan Armatrading, Richard O'Brien, Paul Nicholas and Floella Benjamin. He also appeared later in Richard O’Brien’s"
"in BBC One's 2015 TV film The Ark, starring as Ham, the son of David Threlfall's Noah. Ian Smith (comedian) Ian Smith (born 13 September 1988) is an English stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his role on the BBC's The Ark and co-presenter on Dave's ""The Magic Sponge"". Smith started his acting career with appearances in all six episodes of Popatron, a sitcom produced by Charlie Brooker's Zeppotron for BBC Two as part of its BBC Switch brand. Alongside fellow comedian Rob Beckett and former footballer Jimmy Bullard, Smith hosts UK television channel Dave's comedy-football podcast ""The Magic"
"Mark Heap Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedies such as ""Spaced"", ""Brass Eye"", ""Big Train"", ""Jam"", ""Green Wing"", ""Upstart Crow"" and ""Friday Night Dinner"". Heap was born in Tamil Nadu, India, to an English father and American mother, the youngest of four boys. He began his acting career in the 1980s as a member of the Medieval Players, a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry. His brother, Carl Heap, was the artistic director of the company. After its demise, he"
"Reginald Sheffield Reginald Sheffield (18 February 1901 – 8 December 1957) was an English-born actor. He was born as Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan in the St. George's, Hanover Square district of London, to Matthew Sheffield Cassan and Alice Mary Field. He had a brother, Edward Sheffield Cassan and a sister, Flora Kathleen Sheffield Cassan, who became an actress known as Flora Sheffield. His father was born in Ireland and his mother in England. They were married in London in 1892. Matthew died when Reginald was nine. In 1913 Reginald Sheffield (billed as Eric Desmond) appeared in ""David Copperfield"". In 1914,"
"Michael Darbyshire Michael Darbyshire (15 October 1917 – 20 November 1979) was an English television actor most famous for his portrayal of Hubert Davenport, the Victorian ghost in the long-running BBC TV children's comedy series ""Rentaghost"". The series continued after Darbyshire's death. He also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", and appeared in the musical ""Pickwick"" (1965) and in the TV adaptation ""Pickwick"" for the BBC in 1969. He was also a prominent member of The Players Theatre Company based in London in Villiers Street, appearing regularly and also on many occasions"
"""Capote"" as Truman Capote 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk 2009: George Clooney – ""Up in the Air"" as Ryan Bingham 2010: James Franco – ""127 Hours"" as Aron Ralston 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass 2016:"
"an episode of the BBC's medical drama series ""Doctors"". Walter Sparrow Walter Leonard Sparrow (22 January 1927 – 31 May 2000) was an English film and television actor best known for his appearance as Duncan in the 1991 film """" starring Kevin Costner. Born in Eltham, London in 1927, Sparrow began his career as a stand-up comic before moving to acting with a period with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first film role was in 1964, in ""Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"", with Christopher Lee. Subsequent films, interspersed between countless TV appearances, included the 1969 sex fantasy ""Zeta One"", ""Young"
"Hay Petrie David Hay Petrie (16 July 1895 – 30 July 1948) was a Scottish actor noted for playing eccentric characters, among them Quilp in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1935), the McLaggen in ""The Ghost Goes West"" (1935) and Uncle Pumblechook in ""Great Expectations"" (1946). Hay Petrie was born in Dundee, Angus, Scotland, where he went to Harris Academy. He later attended St Andrew’s University, where he first discovered the stage. In 1915, he joined the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) as a second lieutenant. After the war, he studied with Rosina Filippi joining the Old Vic Company appearing as ""Starveling"""
"Jamie Dorrington Jamie Dorrington (born 1984 in Leeds) is a British actor who is best known for his role in the English crime drama ""Happy Valley"" alongside Sarah Lancashire He also features in BBC's To Walk Invisible Playing Enoch Thomas and Channel 4 Drama Series Ackley Bridge(2017) Plus many other British films. Sky drama ""The Endz"" debuted Jamie in 2011, followed by features in various British films including ""Weekender"" (based on the 1990s rave scene in ""Manchester""), ""Airborne"" (UK horror movie) and football focused ""Hooligan"" alongside Sean Bean and Tamer Hassan . More recently Jamie has just starred in the"