Michael Starke
Acting Born Nov 13, 1957 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK 21 credits
Biography
Michael Starke is a British actor best known for his role as Thomas 'Sinbad' Sweeney which he played for sixteen years in the soap opera Brookside. Starke then appeared in the ITV drama The Royal as Kenneth Hopkirk, as policeman Arthur in the film The 51st State and as himself on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
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Career timeline
Stephen
The Responder
The Virtues
Longtails
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Benidorm
The Street
The Paul O'Grady Show
The Royal
Revengers Tragedy
The 51st State
Brookside: Friday the 13th
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
Heartbeat
Pebble Mill
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Watching
Casualty
No Surrender
Brookside
Coronation Street
Full filmography
- Coronation Street (1960) as Jerry Morton
- Casualty (1986) as Malcolm Sutton
- Heartbeat (1992) as Ken Hopkirk
- Brookside (1982) as Thomas 'Sinbad' Sweeney
- Benidorm (2007) as Dodgy Dave
- The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
- Pebble Mill (1991) as Self
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011) as Self - Participant
- The Responder (2022) as Kevin
- The Street (2006)
- Watching (1987) as Forester
- The 51st State (2001) as Arthur
- The Virtues (2019) as Sam
- The Royal (2003) as Ken Hopkirk
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) as Dave
- No Surrender (1985) as Member of Rock Group
- Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997) as Sinbad
- Revengers Tragedy (2002) as Nessio
- Brookside: Friday the 13th (1998) as Sinbad
- Stephen (2024) as Frank
- Longtails (2016) as Mr. Griffin