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Tony Christian

As a registered member of the British Stunt Register, Tony is actively working as a stunt coordinator, stunt rigger, and all-round stunt action performer. He has worked in the film and television industry for over 20 years. His television stunt debut was alongside David Jason on A Touch of Frost before going on to work on his first feature film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Since then, he has worked on over 70 feature films, 50 television series, and various commercials, as well as numerous live shows and events. As well as performing, he is experienced in stunt rigging and has access to a selection of stunt and action equipment. He constantly maintains his skill set and is keen to bring a fresh approach to coordinating stunt and action sequences.

Amelda Brown

Amelda Brown is a British actress of stage, film, and television. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1980, and became known for her work in fringe theatre. She played leading roles in the premieres of Caryl Churchill's Fen (1983) and A Mouthful of Birds (1986) as well as appearing in leading roles in revivals of Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at the Royal National Theatre (1996) and Heart's Desire at the Orange Tree Theatre (2016). Her other stage roles have included Lady Macbeth for the Royal National Theatre's 1989 US tour of Macbeth; Maudlin in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside at Shakespeare's Globe in 1997; and Gibb in the 2014 world premiere of Tim Crouch's Adler and Gibb at the Royal Court theatre. Amongst her television roles are Brenda Parkin in Backup, Mrs. Roach in Soldier Soldier, Pauline Cook in A Touch of Frost, and Sue Barnes in Peak Practice, and she has also appeared in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Morse, The Bill, Lovejoy, Holby City, The Story of Tracy Beaker, and Doctors. In 2009, she appeared in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Mrs. Cole. Her other film work includes Fanny in Little Dorrit (1987), and the small roles of Hope in Hope and Glory (1987) and the Visitor in Sister My Sister (1994). (wikipedia)

Paul Harrison

Director · Known for A Touch of Frost

Paul Harrison has directed/produced over 100 episodes of some of Britain's most successful TV series, which include Midsomer Murders (20th Anniversary Episode), A Touch of Frost and Ballykissangel. Within the past five years, he worked in South Africa on the ITV drama Wild at Heart andthe BBC drama Death in Paradise in Guadeloupe. He recently directed the comedy Trollied as well as two episodes of the contemporary and quirky crime drama Agatha Raisin; both for Sky. http://paulharrisondirector.co.uk/ Paul Harrison's awards and nominations include: BAFTA: Best Youth Entertainment for YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT SERIES 1 BAFTA nomination: Best Drama Series for BALLYKISSANGEL BAFTA nomination: Best Youth Entertainment for YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT SERIES 2 BAFTA nomination: Best Family Drama for COME BACK LUCY Royal Society Television Awards: Best Drama and Comedy Drama A TOUCH OF FROST BALLYKISSANGEL DIAMOND GEEZER National Television Awards: A TOUCH OF FROST BALLYKISSANGEL Irish Film and Television Nomination: Best Television Drama for BALLYKISSANGEL New York Film and Television Award for DIAMOND GEEZER

David Killick

David Killick (1938–2025) was a distinguished British stage and television actor whose career spanned over 60 years. He was best known for his recurring role as a pathologist in the long-running crime drama A Touch of Frost and for his appearance in season five of The Crown as a Mess President.

Louise Yates

Louise Yates is known for Wire in the Blood (2002), A Touch of Frost (1992) and Jonathan Creek (1997).

Simona Armstrong

Simona Armstrong is an Actress known for Sinchronicity (2006), Love Soup (2005) and A Touch of Frost (1992).

Dallas Campbell

Dallas Campbell is a well-known British television presenter whose credits include BBC One's Supersized Earth, Bang Goes the Theory (BBC America, 2013), Egypt's Lost Cities, BBC Four's Horizon Guides, and The Drake Equation: The Search for Life. Before joining the BBC, he presented Channel Five's technology program The Gadget Show, as well as Dallas Campbell's Guide to the Impossible, also known as Dallas in Wonderland, a comedy science series he co-produced with R.J. Cutler for Discovery Science in the United States. Prior to moving into factual presenting, he worked as an actor in several of the UK's most popular television shows, including Casualty, Doomwatch, A Touch of Frost, and Moll Flanders. In theatre, he frequently collaborated with the late, legendary director Ken Campbell on various projects, most notably The Warp, the world's longest play, which ran for 29 hours. He wrote and directed the short film No Deposit No Return. He is married to Victoria Goodall, the sister of actress Caroline Goodall.

Jay Simpson

Cast · Known for Black Mirror

Jay Simpson is a prolific English film, television and stage actor. Most recently, he has appeared in Chernobyl and Frontier. Simpson is perhaps best known in television for portraying cockney desk sergeant Ian 'Brookie' Brooke in Foyle's War, and he has also appeared on television in Recovery with David Tennant and Sarah Parish, Hot Money, Bad Crowd, A Touch of Frost, Casualty, Primeval, The Bill, Peep Show, Rome, Ashes to Ashes, Murder in Suburbia and Soundproof. Jay also uses his charm and voice skills as he is the voice of 'The Tree of Temptation' in Big Brother. His films include Hush Your Mouth, The Holiday, Pride and Prejudice and Erik the Viking and the 1988 TV film The Firm with Gary Oldman. He also voiced a major character, Flea, in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson and with dialogue written by Simon Pegg. The character of Flea was something of comedy relief in the film, with a character partly inspired by Sean Ryder. In 2008 he appeared alongside Ross Boatman and Roger Lloyd-Pack in Patrick Marber's play Dealer's Choice for a run on the West End. In 2011 he appeared as George Redman in the television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher for ITV. In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror On 13 April 2012, he appeared as Stretch in the sitcom Not Going Out and appeared in the ITV series Mrs Biggs as one of the great train robbers, Bruce Reynolds.

David Blair

David trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and subsequently with John Wright and Philippe Gaulier. He has written and directed short films and is an award nominated voice actor, specialising in audiobook narration. David’s experience as an actor is many & varied, performing extensively in Theatre, Film and TV. He has taken shows to the Edinburgh Fringe festival and created comic characters which he has performed on the London comedy circuit. He also acted in the RSC and the West Yorkshire Playhouse and alongside the likes of Sir Kenneth Branagh and Sir David Jason. His many TV credits include Band of Brothers, Hamlet, Casualty, Heartbeat and A Touch of Frost.

Charles Dale

Cast · Known for Casualty

Charles Dale (born 4 February 1963) is a Welsh actor known for playing Big Mac in Casualty, Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street, Gary "Chef" Alcock in The Lakes and Clive Eustace in The Eustace Bros. He was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. From November 2007 until June 2016, Dale portrayed Big Mac, a hospital porter, an Emergency Care Assistant and a Healthcare Assistant in the BBC One series Casualty. He played Steve Lewis in the BBC Wales series Belonging (1999-2009). He has also made appearances in Lovejoy, Soldier Soldier, Bramwell, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil III, The Bill, At Home with the Braithwaites, Burnside, Steel River Blues, New Tricks, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Spaced, Rocket Man, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Unforgotten and Emmerdale

Roy Battersby

Roy Battersby (1936-2024) was a British director. He started his career making documentary features for the BBC, including work on their groundbreaking science series Tomorrow's World. In 1970 he directed the innovative scientific documentary film The Body, before moving into drama and directing TV plays, often working with writer Colin Welland. He made with several films for the Play for Today series but his role as an organiser with the Workers Revolutionary Party and his Trotskyist politics led to him being blacklisted by the BBC at the behest of Special Branch and the security services, a fact which Battersby was unaware of at the time. Once his association ended in the 1980s, Battersby was allowed to direct at the BBC once more. Serials such as 1986's King of the Ghetto led to regular work on Between the Lines in the early 90s. Now specialising in crime drama, he also helmed several episodes of ITV's Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost and Cracker. His 2005 film Red Mercury was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it was nominated for best film. In 1996, Battersby was awarded the Alan Clarke award at BAFTA. He was married to actress Judy Loe and is the stepfather of actress Kate Beckinsale.

Gordon Salkilld

Gordon Salkilld was an English supporting actor best known for his portrayal of carpenter Jack Wood in the 1970s BBC cult series Survivors. He also gained fame in Red Dwarf: series 2, episode 2 as Gordon—the incredibly intelligent computer aboard the S.S. F Scott Fitzgerald, who is involved in a chess game with Holly—a part specially written for him by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with whom he had previously worked on the Radio 4 series Wrinkles, and as Petty Officer Parker in BBC children's series The Doombolt Chase. He also made appearances in Thriller; episode 'The Double Kill' (1975), A Touch of Frost, A Very Peculiar Practice, Jeeves and Wooster, Shelley, Ever Decreasing Circles, Juliet Bravo, Never the Twain and Only Fools and Horses. Salkilld was active on the stage. He directed and starred in a production of Tom Stoppard's After Magritte at the Prince of Wales, Wimbledon in 1974. He appeared on the stage in a production of Puss in Boots at Tunbridge Wells in 1974; a reviewer wrote that Salkilld "was an amusing Dame".

David Gooderson

Cast · Known for A Touch of Frost

David Richard Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an Indian-born British actor and writer who has appeared in several television roles. As well as portraying Davros in the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks, he appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Mapp & Lucia and A Touch of Frost. Gooderson was also featured on many radio programmes for the BBC, including The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately with Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey and Jonathan Cecil and Huddwinks with Roy Hudd and others. He wrote several plays for stage and radio broadcast, and published several books about Kenneth Grahame. Gooderson was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and featured in the cast of the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of.

Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis is an English actor who began acting at just nine years old with early roles in many popular television shows, including Heartbeat, A Touch Of Frost and Cracker as well as a role alongside Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters in the feature film Girls' Night written by Kay Mellor. Regular roles in Children's Ward (as Scott Morris for three series) and Adam's Family Tree (as Adam for 2 series), as well as the lead in British Comedy Award-winning show My Dad's a Boring Nerd marked Lewis out as a young actor of note. This resulted in a full-time role on popular soap Emmerdale, where Lewis played Marc Reynolds for four years. After leaving the show, he would further his career with a challenging role in Broken Voices at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London's West End. Further television roles followed in Dalziel and Pascoe and Respectable before taking another feature film role as Steve in the multi-award-winning film Boy A. This was immediately followed by a lead in popular sci-fi show Torchwood as the young World War I soldier Tommy Brockless, who is charged with saving the Universe. Lewis also featured in the film version of A Passionate Woman and football comedy Everything But The Ball. In his spare time, he has performed for several years in the band 'The Good Die Young', regularly performing across the country. Anthony also appeared as Peter Davies in BBC Television series The Syndicate alongside brother Matthew Lewis, Joanna Page and Timothy Spall. He appeared on stage at Hull Truck Theatre as Mark in A Passionate Woman alongside Kay Mellor, Stuart Manning and Andrew Dunn. The show also toured as a co-production between The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Oldham Coliseum. He recently toured the U.K. as Lomper in the Number 1 tour of The Full Monty. Can be heard occasionally as a Continuity Announcer for BBC Television. Anthony began IGUN Pictures as a platform for developing shorts, music videos and feature films, as a Writer, Director and Producer.

Vivienne Ritchie

Vivienne Ritchie was born in 1958 in Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Midsomer Murders (1997), Being Human (1994) and A Touch of Frost (1992).

Arthur White

Cast · Known for A Touch of Frost

Arthur B. White is an English stage and screen actor, best known for his occasional role as the collator (police archivist) Ernie Trigg in the crime drama A Touch of Frost, alongside his real-life younger brother David Jason. His parents were Arthur R White and Welsh-born Olwen Jones. He also appeared briefly along with his brother in two episodes of The Darling Buds of May. In 1978, White appeared as part of an underworld gang, playing the role of Freddy in an episode of the 1970s British police drama The Professionals, the episode entitled When the Heat Cools Off. In 2007, White played Albert Fogarty in the Heartbeat episode "The Dreams That You Dream". In 2008, he worked with Jason again on the comic fantasy The Colour of Magic, where he played a character called "Rerpf". In 2010, he featured in 13 Hours That Saved Britain, talking about his experiences of living during World War Two and living in London during the Blitz. White has also made appearances in television series such as Crossroads, The Professionals, London's Burning, As Time Goes By, Wycliffe, Family Affairs and The Prisoner episode "It's Your Funeral".

David Jason

Cast · Known for A Touch of Frost, Crossroads

English actor and comedian. He played Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the long-running BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost. Other high-profile television roles were as Granville in the sitcom Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama The Darling Buds of May as well as the voices of Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Count Duckula. His last original appearance as Del Boy was in 2014, while Jason retired his role as Frost in 2010. One of the best loved actors in British popular culture, in September 2006 Jason topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. He was knighted in 2005 for services to drama. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four British Comedy Awards (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and six National Television Awards (1997, 2001, 2002 twice).

Christopher Fulford

Cast · Known for 28 Years Later

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christopher Fulford (born 1955 in London) is a British actor who is best known for his supporting roles in many British TV shows. In his early career he often appeared in British crime dramas. He was guest star of both the ITV crime series Inspector Morse, as a suspect in Driven to Destruction (1990)  and as a killer in the early A Touch of Frost episode Widows and Orphans (1994). In 1993, Fulford also starred in the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black alongside a virtually unknown Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz. He also appeared as a "male vigilante" in Dalziel & Pascoe. He has featured in the films D-Tox (2002), Millions (2004) and Pierrepoint (2005) and the television dramas The Last Train and Deceit. He has also appeared extensively on British television, appearing in guest roles in episodes of series such as Inspector Morse, Cracker, Prime Suspect, Dalziel and Pascoe, Spooks, Judge John Deed and Waking the Dead. He recently appeared in the ITV1 dramas Whitechapel and Collision, both alongside Phil Davis. Christopher married actress Camille Coduri in 1992. They have two children, Rosa (born 1993) and Santino (born 1996). Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Fulford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sheila Kelley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sheila Kelley is a British television actress. Her career began in 1974, in the series Village Hall. Further notable appearances were in the series Within These Walls (1978), Empire Road (1978), Play for Today (1975, 1976, 1982), A Touch of Frost (1994), Dangerfield (1998) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1997, 2000). She also acted in movies, including Wish You Were Here (1987) and Secrets & Lies (1996). She is married to actor Stephen Bill (known from Prick Up Your Ears). Their son Leo Bill is also an actor (known from 28 Days Later). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sheila Kelley (British actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Clara Salaman

Clara Rachel Salaman is an English actress. She is known for playing the role of DS Claire Stanton in the long running ITV drama "The Bill". She first appeared on "The Bill" as a victim, Penny Thompson, on episode 6 of series 11. She has also appeared in several other television programmes, including "A Touch of Frost" and "Kingdom". Salaman has recently moved into writing: she has written a play for the National Theatre and a screenplay for Granada Television. She has also written several novels.

Caroline Harker

Cast · Known for A Touch of Frost

Caroline Harker (born 1966) is an English stage and television actress, sister of actress Susannah Harker, and daughter of actors Polly Adams and Richard Owens. She is known for her roles as Celia, in the BBC's Middlemarch, and as Woman Police Constable (WPC) (later Detective Sgt.) Hazel Wallace in the ITV police drama A Touch of Frost (1992-2003).

Nick Reding

Cast · Known for Silent Witness

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nick Reding (born 31 August 1962 in London, England) is a British actor. During a career of more than two decades, he is probably best known for playing PC Pete Ramsey in The Bill and DI Michael Conner in Silent Witness. His many TV and film appearances include The Monocled Mutineer, Oscar, Frank Stubbs Promotes, Sword of Honour, A Touch of Frost, Boon, Captive, Mister Johnson, The House of Eliott, Police 2020, Croupier, Judge John Deed, The Constant Gardener, Blood Diamond, and Soul Boy. On stage he played Joseph Porter Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Royal National Theatre, as well as leading roles at the Royal Court. Reding is founder and executive director of Sponsored Arts for Education (S.A.F.E.) a charity, based in Africa, which creates arts projects in the developing world that help artists educate, entertain and challenge their communities about vital health issues such as HIV. S.A.F.E runs three theatre companies in Kenya, Safe Pwani based in Mombasa, Safe Ghetto in Nairobi, and Safe Maa with the Maasai in the Loita Hills. The film Reding directed, Huruma, was recreated in Kibera slum as a stage performance in Fernando Mereilles 2005 film The Constant Gardener. In 2007 he was given an award by Keep a Child Alive alongside Bono and Dr Pasquine Obasanyo for outstanding humanitarian work at The Black Ball in New York City. Reding currently lives in Kenya full time running S.A.F.E. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Reding, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Camille Coduri

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Camille Coduri (born 8 October 1965 in Wandsworth, London) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in Doctor Who as Jackie Tyler appearing in a number of episodes between 2005 and 2010. She featured in the film comedies Nuns on the Run (1990) and King Ralph (1991). She has also appeared extensively on British television, appearing in guest roles in episodes of series such as Rumpole of the Bailey, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Boon, A Touch of Frost and in the BBC's 1997 adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. She appeared in BBC Three's six-part drama series Sinchronicity in 2006. Camille participated in the Doctor Who-themed episode of The Weakest Link, first broadcast on 30 March 2007. She was statistically the weakest link in the third round and came close to being voted out two times. However she survived both times and went on to win the game (beating Noel Clarke). She split the prize money of £16,550 between two charities - half for multiple sclerosis and half for children who are carers. After two seasons as Jackie Tyler in Doctor Who she reprised her role in the Series 4 finale and then again for David Tennant's final episode, "The End of Time", on both occasions alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. In an April 2010 episode of Ashes to Ashes, Coduri plays a woman who helps DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake during an investigation. Camille married actor Christopher Fulford in 1992. They have two children, Rosa (born 1993) and Santino (born 1996). Description above from the Wikipedia article Camille Coduri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Beatie Edney

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice "Beatie" Edney (born 23 October 1962) is an English television actress. Born in London, she is the daughter of actress Sylvia Syms, and sister of Benjamin Edney and a cousin of musician Nick Webb. Edney first came to audiences' attention as Heather MacLeod in the 1986 film Highlander, the first film in the Highlander series. She returned to the role again in the 2000 film Highlander: Endgame. In 1987 Edney performed the title role in the TV production of 'The Dark Angel' with Peter O'Toole. In 1990, she appeared in the Bruce Beresford directed film Mister Johnson alongside Pierce Brosnan and Edward Woodward. Her many television appearances include a leading role in the TV series Lost Empires, based on the novel by J.B. Priestley, with Colin Firth in 1986. She has also appeared in episodes of Rosemary & Thyme, A Touch of Frost, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Lewis (TV series), Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Wallander (2009). In 1994, she played the role of Louisa Gradgrind in the television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. In 1995, she had a starring role in the Channel 4 sitcom Dressing For Breakfast. In 2012 she played Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George III, in a revival at the Apollo Theatre.