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Maurice Roëves

Maurice Roëves

Birthday: 1937-03-19 | Place of Birth: Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maurice Roëves is a Scottish actor, born in Sunderland, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) on 19 March 1937. 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2015
Macbeth

as    Menteith

2009
The Damned United

as    Jimmy Gordon

2008
Fast Track: No Limits

as    Schmitty

2007
Hallam Foe

as    Raymond

2005
The Dark

as    Dafydd

2001
Beautiful Creatures

as    Ronnie McMinn

2000
The Sight

as    Det. Pryce's boss

2000
Forgive and Forget

as    Michael O'Neil

1999
The Acid House

as    God

1995
Moses

as    Zerak

1992
The Last of the Mohicans

as    Colonel Munro

1990
The Big Man

as    Cam Colvin

1990
Hidden Agenda

as    Harris

1987
Tutti Frutti

as    Vincent Diver

1984
1983
Who Dares Wins

as    Major Steele

1980
Twelfth Night

as    Antonio

1971
When Eight Bells Toll

as    Lt. Williams - Helicopter Pilot

1970
A Day at the Beach

as    Nicholas

1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as    George Smith