David Parfitt
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David Parfitt is a film producer and actor, originally from Sunderland. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.
He was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999. He played Simon Harrison in the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequal ...And Mother Makes Five.
He played the original Tim Beecham (now Tim Brierley) an old friend of Nigel Pargetter in the BBC Radio 4 The Archers. Tim was a 'Hooray Henry' and was known for persistently failing his law exams.