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Acting

Richard McCabe

Career: Active from 2005 to 2026, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 4
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: National Theatre Live: The Audience
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard McCabe Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Physical Comedy
1.2, average 2.4
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 3
Slow-Burn Mystery 2
Period Piece 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

60

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

11 titles · average score 64

Savage House

61

as Mr. Bennett

The Gentlemen

76

TV show · as George Lamb

Gladiator II

64

as Quaestor

Napoleon

58

as Lord Whitworth

The Pentaverate

47

TV show · as Exalted Pikeman Higgins

Anatomy of a Scandal

57

TV show · as Brian Taylor

The Yeomen of the Guard - English National Opera

as Jack Point

A Very British Scandal

73

TV show · as George Whigham

SAS: Red Notice

53

as Callum

Cyrano

70

as Priest

The Duke

79

as Rab Butler

2010s

24 titles · average score 71

1917

83

as Colonel Collins

Rangoon

50

as Major General Harding

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

70

TV show · as Dr. Thaddeus Cutter

Doctor Thorne

81

TV show · as Frank Gresham Sr.

Mindhorn

71

as Jeffrey Moncrief

Cinderella

72

as Baron

Poldark

79

TV show · as Mr Trencrom

Peaky Blinders

86

TV show · as Winston Churchill

National Theatre Live: The Audience

84

as Harold Wilson

Legacy

54

as Gerry

The Best of Men

74

as Dr. Cowan

Death in Paradise

59

TV show · as Professor Roger Harkness

2000s

17 titles · average score 71

Wallander

79

TV show · as Nyberg

Einstein and Eddington

71

as Frank Dyson

The Duchess

65

as Sir James Hare

The History of the World Backwards

TV show

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

as Barras

Lewis

80

TV show · as Gavin Matthews

Jane Eyre

77

TV show · as Mr. Brocklehurst

The Constant Gardener

78

as Arthur Hammond

Doc Martin

84

TV show · as Trevor Dodds

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

80

as Mr. Higgins, Surgeon's Mate

Spooks

80

TV show · as Matthew Plowden

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Karl Meerman

1990s

8 titles · average score 63

Notting Hill

75

as Tony

The Vice

43

TV show · as Michael Walden

Killer Net

61

TV show · as DI Colby

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Rev. Anthony Gant

Trial & Retribution

72

TV show · as Roger Barker

Bramwell

40

TV show · as Osborne

Persuasion

74

as Captain Benwick

For the Greater Good

TV show · as Trusty