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Maurice Roëves

Acting Born Mar 19, 1937 Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK 24 credits

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Maurice Roëves is a Scottish actor, born in Sunderland, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) on 19 March 1937.

His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003).

He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans.

In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster.

He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City.

His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000).

In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air.

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Known for

Film

Paris, Texas

as Romulan Captain

Skins

as Alex

Casualty

as Carl Jackson
Film

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

as Stotz

Murder, She Wrote

as Police Captain
Film

Donnie Darko

as Sean

Play for Today

as Ted Hardin

Play for Today

as Bill - A Time to Keep

Magnum, P.I.

as Hopkins

Hunter

as Michael Mullenby

Jake and the Fatman

as Tattooist

Full filmography

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) as Romulan Captain
  • Skins (2007) as Alex
  • Casualty (1986) as Carl Jackson
  • Doctor Who (1963) as Stotz
  • Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Police Captain
  • Cheers (1982) as Sean
  • Play for Today (1970) as Ted Hardin
  • Play for Today (1970) as Bill - A Time to Keep
  • Baywatch (1989)
  • Magnum, P.I. (1980) as Hopkins
  • Hunter (1984) as Michael Mullenby
  • Jake and the Fatman (1987) as Tattooist
  • Waking the Dead (2001) as Vinnie Peverell
  • Bergerac (1981) as Vaccarro
  • A Touch of Frost (1992) as Stuart Mackintosh
  • Remington Steele (1982) as Angus Whitewood
  • Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
  • Playhouse (1974) as Adolf Hitler
  • The Sweeney (1975) as Phil Deacon
  • The Wednesday Play (1964) as Ian Tiggott
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1992) as Colonel Munro
  • Judge Dredd (1995) as Warden Miller
  • Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962)
  • Dixon of Dock Green (1955) as Richard Bennett