Richard Ireson
Acting
Biography
Born in 1946, Richard Ireson is a former actor who since 1986 has run Narrow Road, an agency for actors and creatives with offices in London and Manchester.
Known For
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void where they are menaced by white robots. Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped — until the ship explodes. They find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel, the Karkus, and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
The New Statesman
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Nuts in May
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
Soldier and Me
Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
The New Avengers
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
Minder
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Filmography
as Soldier
as Night Porter
as Reporter 1
as Inspector Fournier
as Lorry Driver
as Inspector Radford
as Mike (voice)
as Man Outside Lavatory
as Barry
as Commander Blythe
as Ned
as Sparrow
as Stan Pearce
as 2nd Taxi Driver
as Tyrkov
as Stoppo
as DS Eric Vine
as Doctor
as Market Stallholder
as Vernon
as Jonathan Ross
as Wellburn
as Keir Fewkes
as Policeman
as Dr Mount
as Henchman Greasy
as Stoppo
as Wickam
as Carlaw
as Axus
as Soldier
as Soldier