Patrick Malahide

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Patrick Malahide (born March 24, 1945) is an English actor, who has played many major film and television roles.

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[edit] Personal Life

Malahide, real name Patrick Gerald Duggan, was born in Berkshire, the son of Irish immigrants and educated at Douai School.

[edit] Career

He made his television debut in 1976, in an episode of The Flight of the Heron, then in single episodes of Sutherland's Law and The New Avengers (1976) and ITV Playhouse (1977). He was then in an adaptation of The Eagle of the Ninth, and his first film was Sweeney 2 in the following year.

Since then, he has become a familiar face to screen audiences, often playing villains. His television appearances have included dramas such as Minder (1979-1994), The Singing Detective (1986) and Middlemarch (1994), and he played Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn in a 1993-94 series. His films include Comfort and Joy (1984), A Month in the Country (1987), and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001). In 1999 he made a small appearance in the introduction to the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough opposite Pierce Brosnan as a Swiss banker named Lachaise working in Bilbao.

In 2008 he will play Mr Ryder in a film of Brideshead Revisited.

[edit] Filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
2008 Churchill at War Maj-General Bernard Montgomery
2008 Brideshead Revisited Mr. Ryder
2007 Five Days John Poole TV series
2006 New Tricks Chopper Hadley TV series
2006 Like Minds Headmaster
2005 Elizabeth I Sir Francis Walsingham TV series
2005 Friends and Crocodiles Anders TV series
2005 Extras Minister TV series
2005 Sahara Ambassador Polidori
2004 Amnesia D.I. Brennan TV series
2004 EuroTrip Arthur Frommer
2003 Poirot Sir Montague TV series
2003 In Search of the Brontës Patrick Bronté TV series
2002 Goodbye, Mr. Chips Ralston TV series
2002 The Final Curtain Dr. Colworth
2002 The Abduction Club Sir Myles
2001 Victoria & Albert Sir John Conroy TV series
2001 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Colonel Barge
2000 Quills Delbené
2000 Billy Elliot Principal
2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal Commissioner Daly
1999 All the King's Men Capt. Claude Howlett TV series
1999 The World Is Not Enough Lachaise
1999 Captain Jack Mr. Lancing
1999 Fortress 2 Peter Teller
1998 Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude John Harrison
1998 Heaven Dr. Melrose
1998 Miracle at Midnight Georg Duckwitz
1998 U.S. Marshals Bertram Lamb, Security Service Director
1997 'Til There Was You Timo
1997 The Beautician and the Beast Leonid Kleist
1997 Deacon Brodie Bailie Creech
1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight Leland Perkins
1995 Cutthroat Island Governor Ainslee
1995 Kidnapped Ebenezer
1995 Two Deaths George Bucsan
1994 A Man of No Importance Inspector Carson
1994 Middlemarch Rev. Edward Casaubon TV
1993-94 The Alleyn Mysteries Roderick Alleyn TV series
1992 The Blackheath Poisonings Robert Dangerfield TV series
1992 A Doll's House Dr. Rank TV series
1990 Inspector Morse Jeremy Boynton TV series
1988 News at Twelve Arthur Starkey TV series
1984 Comfort and Joy Colin
1983 Blackadder Guy of Glastonbury TV series
1979-1988 Minder Detective Sergeant Albert 'Charlie' Chisholm TV series
1978 The Sweeney Mason TV series
1978 The Professionals 1st Security Man
1978 The Standard Colin Anderson TV series
1978 Sweeney Two Major Conway
1977 The Eagle of the Ninth Cradoc TV

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