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Tim McInnerny

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Tim McInnerny
McInnerny at a presentation of Severance in 2006
Born
Timothy L. McInnerny

(1956-09-18) 18 September 1956 (age 68)
Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England
EducationMarling School
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
OccupationActor
Years active1983–present
SpouseAnnie Gosney

Timothy L. McInnerny (/ˌmækɪˈnɜːrni/ MAK-in-UR-nee; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder.

Early life

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McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny.[1] He has one sister, Lizzy, who is also an actress.[citation needed] He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976[2] after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.[3]

Career

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Television

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McInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (The Black Adder) and the second series (Blackadder II); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and returned to play Captain Kevin Darling in the fourth series (Blackadder Goes Forth), a character significantly different from the Lords Percy.

He had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. More recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK (2011) as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks (2012). In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.[4]

In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show I Love the '70s: "I think shows like Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour need to be remembered for what they were; truly fantastic examples of sitcom writing that hasn't been seen since. The content is unfortunate in the cold light of modern society, but that's no reason to stop praising the sheer brilliance of the writers that ITV had in its ranks during that decade."[5]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1983 The Black Adder Lord Percy Percy
1985 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes John Clay
Vincent Spalding 		Episode: "The Red-Headed League"
Edge of Darkness Terry Shields
1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Yakovlev
Blackadder II Lord Percy Percy
1987 Blackadder the Third Topper
The Scarlet Pimpernel 		Episode: "Nob and Nobility"
1988 A Very British Coup Fiennes Three-part TV serial
1989 Blackadder Goes Forth Captain Kevin Darling
1992 The Bill Kevin Finch Episode: "Open to Offers"
1993 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Franz Kafka Episode: "Prague, August 1917"
1997 Tracey Takes On... Timothy Bugge
1999 Blackadder: Back and Forth Archdeacon Darling
the Duke of Darling
le Duc de Darling
The Vice Max Wilson episode "Sons" (Parts 1 and 2)
2000 The Miracle Maker Barabbas voice only
2002 Don't Eat the Neighbours Terrapin
Trial & Retribution Eric Fowler Series 6
2004 Spooks Oliver Mace
Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage Reverend Leonard Clement
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot Cecil
2006 The Line of Beauty Gerald Fedden TV miniseries
2008 Doctor Who Klineman Halpen Episode: "Planet of the Ood"
Series 4
2009 Hustle Judge Anthony Kent
Inspector George Gently Geoffrey Pershore Episode: "Gently Through the Mill"
2010 Midsomer Murders Hugh Dalgleish Episode: "The Sword of Guillaume" #13.2
2011 Law & Order: UK Simon Bennett Episode: "Haunted"
Twenty Twelve Tony Ward Episode #1.6
The Body Farm Richard Warner Episode "You've Got Visitors"
2011–2012 New Tricks Stephen Fisher Episodes: "The Gentleman That Vanished", "A Death in the Family" and "Part of a Whole"
2012 The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff Harmswell Grimstone Episodes: "#1.1", "#1.2", "#1.3"
2014 Castles in the Sky Churchill
Outlander Father Bain
Utopia Airey Neave Episode: "Episode 1"
The Boy in the Dress Mr Hawthorn
2015 Strike Back: Legacy Robin Foster
2016 Sherlock Eustace Carmichael Episode: "The Abominable Bride"
Houdini and Doyle Horace Merring Episodes: "#1", "#2", "#8"
2016–2017 Game of Thrones Robett Glover Episodes: "The Broken Man", "The Winds of Winter", "Dragonstone", "Stormborn" , "Eastwatch"
2016 National Treasure Karl
2017 In the Dark Frank Linnell Episodes: 1.3, 1.4
Strike Daniel Chard The Silkworm
Harlots Lord Repton Episodes: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
2018 Strangers Arthur Bach
2019–2020 The Trial of Christine Keeler Martin Redmayne Recurring role
2020 The Windermere Children Leonard Montefiore
Gangs of London Mr Jacob Episode: 1.9
2021 The Serpent Paul Siemons
2022 Ten Percent Simon Gould [6]
2023 Mrs. Davis Apron Man Episodes: "Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung", "A Baby with Wings, a Sad Boy with Wings and a Great Helmet"
2024 One Day (TV series) Stephen Mayhew

Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1983 Dead on Time Customer Short film
1985 Wetherby John Morgan
1989 Erik the Viking Sven the Berserk
1995 Richard III William Catesby
1996 101 Dalmatians Alonzo
1997 FairyTale: A True Story John Ferret
1999 Rogue Trader Tony Hawes
Notting Hill Max
2000 102 Dalmatians Alonzo
2001 The Emperor's New Clothes Dr. Lambert
2005 Casanova The Doge
2006 Severance Richard
2008 The Devil's Whore Joliffe
2010 Black Death Hob
2011 Johnny English Reborn Patch Quartermain
2014 The Minister of Chance The King
2014 Automata Vernon Conway
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good Oliver Mace
2016 Eddie The Eagle Target
2017 The Hippopotamus Roddy
2018 Agatha and the Truth of Murder Randolph
Peterloo Prince Regent
Sometimes Always Never Arthur
2019 Killers Anonymous Calvin
The Aeronauts Airy [7]
2022 Marooned Awakening Karl Voice
2022 Stromboli Harold
2024 The End Post-production
Gladiator II

Radio

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Year Title Role Notes
1998 Cider with Rosie Laurie By Nick Darke
1999 The Saturday Play: Two Planks and a Passion Earl of Oxford
2001 Habbakuk of Ice Geoffrey Pyke by Steve Walker
2004 The Odyssey Odysseus Adapted by Simon Armitage
2010 I, Claudius Tiberius
2013 Headlong Tony Churt
2017 King Solomon's Mines Allan Quatermain
2022 Make Death Love Me Antony

Theatre

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In 1985 he was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.[8]

He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.[9]

In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.[10]

Selected theatre performances

Music

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In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work".[11] He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Tim McInnerny Biography". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Famous Wadhamites". Retrieved 14 January 2017.[dead link]
  3. ^ Roberts, J F (2014). The True History of the Black Adder: At Last, the Cunning Plan, in All Its Hideous Hilarity. Random House UK. p. 23. ISBN 9780099564164.
  4. ^ "New photos from Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 7 "The Broken Man"". Watchers on the Wall. 1 June 2016.
  5. ^ "BBC Two – I Love the 1970s". BBC. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  6. ^ Nicholson, Rebecca (28 April 2022). "Ten Percent review – a perfectly pleasant if pointless remake of Call My Agent!". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  7. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (15 August 2018). "Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne Ballooning Pic 'The Aeronauts' Under Way in UK, Amazon Releases Striking First-Look". Deadline. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Production of Pravda – Theatricalia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  9. ^ "RockyMusic – The Rocky Horror Show (London Cast – The Whole Gory) (1990)". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  10. ^ Billington, Michael (26 May 2007). "Theatre review: Othello / Shakespeare's Globe, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  11. ^ "This Woman's Work – Kate Bush Encyclopedia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Patrons & Judges". Norwich Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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