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Acting

David Calder

Career: Active from 1970 to 2024, busiest in 1991 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 27
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Moonlighting
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 69 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

David Calder Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.4, average 2.4
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Absurdist Humor
1.3, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Moral Dilemmas 4
Political Intrigue 4
Social Commentary 4
Character-Driven 4
Psychological Drama 3
Cold War Espionage 3
Political Thriller 3
Historical Drama 2
Investigative Journalism 2
British Cinema 2
Intricate Plot 2
London Underworld 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

116

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 69

The Last Front

51

as Father Michael

Rivals

83

TV show · as Rev. Fergus Penney

Time

84

TV show · as John Cobden

The Trick

57

as Sir David King

Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret

TV show · as Archbishop George Carey

2010s

25 titles · average score 68

Jerk

64

TV show · as Great Uncle Thomas

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

77

as Julius Caesar

The Hatton Garden Job

31

as Terry Perkins

Queen of the Desert

40

as Hugh Bell

Rush

77

as Louis Stanley

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Sir Aaron Armstrong

Titanic

47

TV show · as Captain Smith

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Donald

United

71

as Harold Hardman

Vera

60

TV show · as Frank McAffee

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

as Polonius

On Expenses

as Stuart Bell

2000s

25 titles · average score 64

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

82

as Sir John Marsden

Lewis

80

TV show · as Andrew Lipton

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

65

as Bishop of Grasse

Cold Blood

71

TV show · as Professor Robert Kerr

Lawless

TV show · as DCI Pete Chambers

Hustle

73

TV show · as Victor Maher

The Commander

65

TV show

Family

TV show · as Ted Cutler

Spooks

80

TV show · as Sergei Lermov

Mr In-Between

60

as Tattooed Man

Jason and the Argonauts

62

TV show · as Argos

The King Is Alive

57

as Charles

1990s

24 titles · average score 67

The World Is Not Enough

56

as Sir Robert King

Drovers' Gold

TV show · as Vaughan

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as George Hamilton

Bramwell

40

TV show

Friday on My Mind

TV show · as Donahue

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Saul Arkwright / DI Ludlow

A Touch of Frost

51

TV show · as Kenneth Shaw

The Count of Solar

as Abbé de L'Epée

Sleepers

77

TV show · as Victor Chekhov

Chimera

62

TV show · as Dr. Jenner

The War That Never Ends

as Cleon

Shoot to Kill

TV show · as DCS John Thorburn

1980s

26 titles · average score 70

Nice Work

TV show · as Stuart Baxter

Tumbledown

70

as John Lawrence

The New Statesman

51

TV show · as Le Cul

Defence of the Realm

82

as Harry Champion

Casualty

62

TV show · as Phillip Perry / Roy Parks

Wynne and Penkovsky

TV show · as Greville Wynne

Wynne and Penkovsky

as Greville Wynne

Mitch

TV show · as Ben Hall

Moonlighting

87

as Supermarket Manager

Get Lost!

TV show · as DS Tomlin

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Sir Clive Hamer

The Black Stuff

77

as McKenna

1970s

11 titles · average score 74

Minder

75

TV show · as Micky 'The Fish' Metcalfe

Casting the Runes

67

as John Marriott

Gossip from the Forest

as General Von Heldorff

Superman

80

as 3rd Crewman

Enemy at the Door

81

TV show · as Hoffman

The Professionals

78

TV show · as Insp. Shannon

Napoleon and Love

TV show · as Marmont

Crown Court

65

TV show · as Donald Dowd / Man In Corridor

Edward II

as Young Spencer

The Tragedy of King Richard II

as Lord Ross / Groom

Sentimental Education

TV show · as Deslauriers