Maurice Roëves
Acting
- Born:
- 1937-03-19
- Died:
- 2020-07-14
- Place of birth:
- Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
Biography
John Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a British actor. His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans. In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Murder: The Third Voice
Macbeth
Luna
Harrigan
Case Histories
Chain Reaction
Making The Last of the Mohicans
Brighton Rock
The Damned United
Fast Track: No Limits
Hallam Foe
Skins
The Dark
Solid Air
Family
Waking the Dead
The Sight
Beautiful Creatures
Forgive and Forget
The Acid House
Vanity Fair
David
David
Guardians
Hillsborough
Moses
Judge Dredd
919 Fifth Avenue
The Negotiator
A Touch of Frost
The Last of the Mohicans
Spender
Hidden Agenda
The Big Man
El C.I.D.
Baywatch
Unreported Incident
The Play on One
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jake and the Fatman
The New Statesman
Tutti Frutti
Casualty
Lytton's Diary
Murder, She Wrote
Hunter
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Heather Ann
Remington Steele
Cheers
Who Dares Wins
Inside the Third Reich
Bergerac
Escape to Victory
The Nightmare Man
The Nightmare Man
The Chinese Detective
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Magnum, P.I.
S.O.S. Titanic
An Enemy of the People
Twelfth Night
Danger UXB
Return of the Saint
Target
The Eagle Has Landed
Willie Rough
Rumpole of the Bailey
Oil Strike North
The Sweeney
Playhouse
Warship
Scotch on the Rocks
The Operation
Young Winston
The Scobie Man
Highlands
Jason King
Orkney
When Eight Bells Toll
Taste of Evil
Play for Today
Husbands and Lovers
Confession
A Day at the Beach
Doomwatch
Paul Temple
Oh! What a Lovely War
Mackintosh
Ulysses
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Cock, Hen and Courting Pit
Out of the Unknown
The Wednesday Play
Doctor Who
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dixon of Dock Green