Matt Bardock

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Matt Bardock (born 1970) is an English actor, educated at Woodcote High School, Purley, Surrey and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is possibly best known for his role as D.C. Clive Barnard in the British television series A Touch of Frost, alongside Sir David Jason's Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost. Bardock's character Barnard was the nephew of the Chief Constable. While many believe he had only got into CID through his family connections, Frost sees beyond that and takes Barnard under his wing. He was later promoted to Detective Sergeant, but was killed off in the 1997 episode "Love Me Tender".

In July and August 2000 he played the role of Danny Weir in the short-lived TV comedy (6 episodes) [[Pay and Display (TV Series) ]] alongside James Bolam. Bardock has also appeared in The Bill (2004), Prime Suspect 2 (1992), as the sadistic pornographer, Jason Reynolds, the Channel 4 TV series No Angels - in which he played registrar Peter Compton - and had a small part in ITV's Midsomer Murders. In May 2005 he played Detective Inspector Tom Wilson in Episode 3 Series 2 of New Tricks (TV series), on BBC1.

In 2007, Bardock joined the BBC television series Casualty as paramedic Jeff Collier - the character left the programme in May 2007, but returned in September. However, this was not Bardock's first appearance in "Casualty" - in 1993, he played a leading gang member in the controversial episode "Boiling Point", where he helped burn down the original hospital.

Bardock also has stage experience, having been in the original production of 'Mojo' by Jez Butterworth at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995.