BODYGUARD
Role: PS David Budd
Year: 2018
Season: 1
Episodes: 1 – 6
Cast: Keeley Hawes, Sophie Rundle
A contemporary thriller featuring the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
✨ Richard won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2019 for his performance as David Budd in Bodyguard.
🚨 There are talks about the possibility of season 2 happening.
PHILIP K. DICK’S ELECTRIC DREAMS
Role: Agent Ross
Year: 2017
Season: 1
Episode: 1.01 – “The Hood Maker”
Cast: Holliday Grainger, Noma Dumezweni
Based on various writings from author Philip K. Dick, each of the 10 stand-alone episodes are set in a different and unique world — some that lay in the far reaches of the universe and others that are much closer to home. While the stories may be worlds apart, central to each is the exploration of the importance and significance of humanity.
THE HOOD MAKER || In a world without advanced technology, mutant telepaths have become humanity’s only mechanism for long-distance communication. But their powers have unintended implications. When the public begin to embrace mysterious, telepath-blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.
OASIS
Role: Peter Leigh
Year: 2017
Season: 1
Episode: 1.00 – “Pilot”
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Antje Traue
AMAZON ORIGINAL
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. He is sent into space to colonize on another planet, only to find his faith and life put to the test.
Based on the book “The Book of Strange New Things”.
🚨 Part or the Amazon Pilot Season. The show wasn’t picked up.
MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE
Role: Cosimo de’ Medici
Year: 2016
Season: 1
Episodes: 1 – 8
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Stuart Martin, Annabel Scholey
A political family drama, set in Florence in the early fifteenth century, about the House of Medici, the powerful Italian banking dynasty that wielded great political and cultural influence during the Italian Renaissance. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.
🚨 There are two more seasons of Medici telling the story of Cosimo’s grandson. Richard isn’t in them, but he is an executive producer.
KLONDIKE
Role: Bill Haskell
Year: 2014
Season: 1
Episodes: 3 Parts, 6 Chapters
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Tim Roth, Sam Shepard, Augustus Prew
MINI–SERIES
The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This man-versus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters including greedy businessmen, seductive courtesans and native tribes witnessing the destruction of their people and land by opportunistic entrepreneurs.
GAME OF THRONES
Role: Robb Stark
Years: 2011 – 2013
Seasons: 1 – 3
Episodes: 21
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington
An adaptation of author George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” medieval fantasies about power struggles among the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for thousands of years.
BIRDSONG
Role: Captain Weir
Year: 2012
Season: 1
Episodes: 1 – 2
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Clémence Poésy, Matthew Goode
MINI–SERIES
Birdsong is a two-part British 2012 television drama, based on the 1993 war novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
SIRENS
Role: Ashley Greenwick
Year: 2011
Season: 1
Episodes: 1 – 6
Cast: Rhys Thomas, Kayvan Novak
The series is based on the book Blood, Sweat & Tea by Brian Kellett.
An insight into the lives of three paramedics, who must deal with the stress and tribulations of the job as well as their personal lives.
Being a paramedic isn’t easy. Every night Stuart, Ashley and Rachid are confronted by late night revellers in Leeds, who treat them more like taxi drivers than doctors. They spend every working day counting down until the end of their shift, but once they’ve finished stitching people back up they need to start salvaging their own personal lives. Unfortunately neither tasks are easy.
HOPE SPRINGS
Role: Dean McKenzie
Year: 2009
Season: 1
Episodes: 1 – 8
Cast: Alex Kingston, Sian Reeves, Christine Bottomley, Vinette Robinson
Four recently paroled female English thieves pull an elaborate stunt to steal a fortune in cash and get a crime boss arrested for it. They plan to escape to Barbados with the loot, but mess up. They hide for a while in Scottish town Hope Springs, where they pretend to take over the run-down hotel as a cover. They soon lose the fortune in a fire, so they must stay and make the hotel work, but get caught up in local crime mysteries too.
BARMY AUNT BOOMERANG
Role: Sebastian Simpkins
Years: 1999 – 2000
Seasons: 1 – 2
Episodes: 20
Cast: Toyah Willcox, Laura McKenzie, Susy Kane, Blaine Slater
Sebastian’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of his unconventional Australian aunt Boomerang. It is revealed early on in the series (the first episode) that Aunt Boomerang is in fact a ghost, She was starring in an Australian soap when she was killed on set.She now acts as something of a “fairy god-mother” to Sebastian. The show ran for two series.
GUEST APPEARANCES
TAGGART
Role: Christie
Year: 2002
Season: 18
Episode: 18.03 “Watertight”
Cast: Blythe Duff, John Michie, Alex Norton, Colin McCredie
The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
WATERTIGHT || When teenaged prostitute Dee is found murdered Robbie goes gunning for Willie Strachan, a man whom he has long suspected of being involved in sex trafficking. However, he is not the only suspect as law student Craig Colhoune, son of a widowed sheriff who dotes on him, also finds himself in the vicinity with unexplained blood on his sleeve. And there is Mo, violent husband of reformed prostitute Sadie.
