Rob Heyland (born 2 April 1954) is a British actor turned television writer.
His first TV role was as a police constable in a 1982 episode of The Professionals entitled Cry Wolf.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Donald Turner in the popular BBC series One By One about a zoo vet.[1]
He has since turned to script writing, contributing six episodes of Between The Lines (which he also created),[2] two of Thief Takers, and an episode of Foyle's War. Other credits include Without Motive, Promoted to Glory,[3] Bomber,[2] and Have Your Cake and Eat It.[4] He is co-creator, with SAS veteran Chris Ryan of popular ITV action show Ultimate Force, which ended in 2007.[5]