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Acting

Roy Marsden

Career: Active from 1967 to 2013, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 24
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Dalgliesh
79/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 37 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Roy Marsden Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
1.0, average 3.0
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.0, average 2.4
Cringe Humor
0.8, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

P.D. James Adaptation 4
Character Study 3
Slow-Burn Suspense 3
Intricate Plot 3
Classic Whodunit 2
Character-Driven Plot 2
Literary Adaptation 2
Methodical Investigation 2
Political Intrigue 2
British Crime Drama 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Murder Investigation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

72

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Prisoners in Space

as Crael

2010s

5 titles · average score 59

Partners in Crime

45

TV show · as Commander Haydock

The Nazi Quest for the Holy Grail

as Narrator

as James Brooke

The Escape Artist

73

TV show · as Peter Simkins

Holy Flying Circus

60

as Mervyn Stockwood

2000s

16 titles · average score 59

Margaret

57

as Norman Tebbit

Moving On

73

TV show · as Eddie

The Palace

47

TV show · as Sir Iain Ratalick

She Stoops to Conquer

as Sir Charles Marlow

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Mr. Stoker

The Green Green Grass

45

TV show

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God

40

as Oberon

Jules Verne's Mysterious Island

48

TV show · as Joseph

King Solomon's Mines

61

TV show · as Captain Good

Salvage

as David Foster

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Ted Cartwright

Rebus

72

TV show · as Sir Vivian Kirkwood

1990s

11 titles · average score 69

A Certain Justice

69

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Original Sin

71

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Prof Nigel Silverlake / Prof. Nigel Silverlake

A Mind to Murder

64

as Commander Adam Dalgliesh

Dangerous Lady

TV show

Against All Odds

TV show · as Col Mark Cook

Unnatural Causes

66

as Commander Adam Dalgliesh

The Last Vampyre

68

as John Stockton

Frank Stubbs Promotes

TV show · as Blick

Devices and Desires

69

TV show · as Commander Adam Dalgliesh

Yellowbacks

as David Caesar

1980s

13 titles · average score 75

A Taste for Death

65

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

The Play on One

TV show · as David Caesar

TV show · as John Bennet

The Black Tower

72

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Cover Her Face

71

TV show · as Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh

Shroud for a Nightingale

69

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Goodbye Mr Chips

TV show · as Charles Edward 'Mr Chips' Chipping

Sherlock Holmes

88

TV show · as John Stockton

Dalgliesh

79

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Death of an Expert Witness

69

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

Airline

TV show · as Jack Ruskin

Only Fools and Horses

85

TV show · as Danny Driscoll

1970s

19 titles · average score 69

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Gerald Overton

The Sandbaggers

84

TV show · as Neil Burnside

Target

TV show · as Mac

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Sidney Frederick Haynes

The Squeeze

61

as Barry

The New Avengers

72

TV show · as Frank Turner

The Eagle Has Landed

66

as Sturmbannführer Toberg, SS (uncredited)

Dickens of London

TV show · as Stanfield

Space: 1999

73

TV show · as Crael / Alien Invisible

Survivors

79

TV show · as The Captain

The Legend of Robin Hood

TV show · as Military Prior

Toomorrow

49

as Alpha

1960s

5 titles

The Elusive Pimpernel

TV show · as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

TV show · as Gervase Kent-Cumberland

Vanity Fair

TV show · as George Osborne

Mystery and Imagination

TV show · as Captain Battenburg

The Man in Room 17

TV show · as Lt. David Stanton

1950s

2 titles · average score 68

No Hiding Place

TV show

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Gerry Cartland