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Acting

Brian Bovell

Career: Active from 1980 to 2026, with a break from 2002 to 2014, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 12
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Prospects
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Brian Bovell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Biographical
0.0, average 1.0
Romance
3.2, average 3.8
Coming of Age
2.4, average 3.0
Sports
0.1, average 0.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Realism 4
Dialogue-Heavy 2
Character-Driven Narrative 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

83

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

25 titles · average score 62

Breach

48

as Interrogator (segment "How to be Human")

Benidorm Is Murder

63

TV show · as Archie

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

63

as Ralph Sheldrake

Silo

77

TV show · as Barney

Andor

87

TV show · as Jemboc

Foundation

69

TV show · as Trantorian Seer Priest

Shadow and Bone

76

TV show · as Innkeeper

Solitary

28

as Harry

Bridgerton

74

TV show · as John's Uncle

Listen

58

as Social Services Officer

Miss Scarlet

72

TV show · as Solomon

Roald Dahl's The Witches

48

as Reginald

2010s

12 titles · average score 61

Ghosts

86

TV show · as Antiques Expert

Down a Dark Hall

48

as Dr. MacMillan

Cla'am

as Biccle

How to be Human

as Interrogator

Never Land

as Fisherman Jeremiah

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Jez (archive footage) (uncredited)

Unforgotten

77

TV show · as Ray Wilton

Pan

40

as Long John Standing

Sealed with a Kiss

as St Claire Du Bois

Get Santa

63

as Policeman

13 Steps Down

54

as Tom Akwaa

Death in Paradise

59

TV show · as Erol Dumas

2000s

12 titles · average score 61

Deadmeat

as Bones

Shoot the Messenger

64

as Councillor Watts

Love Actually

63

as Radio Watford DJ

The Terry and Gaby Show

TV show

My Dad's the Prime Minister

TV show · as Detective Andy Sharp

Shoreditch

46

as Chad

All or Nothing

76

as Garage Owner

Mama Africa

as Olu (segment "Hang Time")

Hotel

35

as Cardinal

Judge John Deed

72

TV show

In Deep

73

TV show · as Brigstock

Sorted

61

as Customs Officer

1990s

19 titles · average score 69

Gimme Gimme Gimme

73

TV show · as Jez Littlewood

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

69

as Uncle

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Eric Gladberry

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

as Narrator (voice)

Silent Witness

75

TV show

Secrets & Lies

88

as Hortense's Brother

A Touch of Frost

51

TV show · as Terry Bamtema

Between the Lines

68

TV show

The Body Beautiful

64

as Young Man

The Chief

TV show · as PC Charlie Webb

TV show · as Sammy Dean

Drop the Dead Donkey

75

TV show · as Barry

1980s

14 titles · average score 71

Screen One

TV show · as DS Ibbotsen

TV show · as Richard

South of the Border

TV show · as Fitz

Thin Air

TV show · as Joe Jeffries

Thin Air

as Joe Jeffries

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as Pierre

Playing Away

59

as Stuart

Prospects

80

TV show

Casualty

62

TV show · as Jed / Gaz Jones

The Bill

77

TV show

Driving Ambition

TV show · as Bill

Babylon

76

as Spark

1970s

1 title

Strangers

TV show · as Youth