Dominic Jephcott

Dominic Jephcott:

Elegant and refined-looking actor who got his first biggish break in the 1979 TV film version of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' as one of the comrades of Richard Thomas (of John-Boy Walton fame) in the Imperial German Army. He also makes an appearance in the British low-budget 'Alien' cash-in, 'Inseminoid' (1981) although he comes a cropper about five minutes in.  

In 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1979)

'Inseminoid' (1981)

For the greater part of his acting career, he has been a TV stalwart, seen in everything from soaps and potboilers like 'Emmerdale', 'Holby City', 'Casualty' and 'Doctors', to cosy crime classics 'Midsomer Murders', 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' and 'Agatha Christie: Poirot'. My particular favourite is Hobson, his enthusiastic graduate policeman in the 'Beiderbecke' series. With his bewildered theories on individualists and 'unusual, possibly illegal' behaviour, he provides the perfect antagonist to Alan Plater's easy going liberal heroes played by James Bolam and Barbara Flynn.   

In 'Midsomer Murders'

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Robert Longden

Robert Longden: 

The distinctively camp, adenoidal tones of actor Robert Longden have been heard in some minor classics of British TV. His whimsical annunciation (somewhere between Georgina Hale and Julian Clary) and strangely boyish manner means he tends to appear in eccentric pieces, notably Alan Plater's Beiderbecke trilogy, in which he played Mr Pitt, the quietly subversive planning officer. 

 

Other TV roles date from the early '70s to the '00s, and include: 'The Fenn Street Gang', Sapper Copping in 'Danger UXB' (pictured above), 'Peter Cook & Co', 'Wood & Walters', 'Boon', 'The Gentle Touch', a string of TV movie whodunits and the unavoidable 'Casualty' and 'Doctors'. His showreel would suggest that he's keeping fairly busy, but I don't think he quite hooked as many primetime shows as he deserved. 

He was in a few feature films, mostly mildly embarrassing, such as 'Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall' (1974), 'Confessions of a Window Cleaner' (1974) and 'Escort Girls' (1975).   

He's still acting on the stage, it seems, and not just pantomime dames. He also found time to write the cult Melville-meets-St Trinian's play, 'Moby Dick: The Musical'. 


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