David Haig

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David Haig MBE (* 20th September 1955 in Aldershot , Hampshire as David Haig Collum Ward ) is an award winning British actor in theater and film, as well as writers . His career includes over 50 roles in international cinema and television films and series, including the productions Der Mondschimmel , Four Weddings and a Death and A Boss to Fall in Love with .

life and career

David Haig was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1955. Haig began his acting career in the late 1970s as stable master Todman in Dorothea Brookings' fantasy television miniseries The Moonshimmel alongside fellow actors like James Greene , Sarah Sutton , Caroline Goodall and John Abineri . In the following 35 years, he was seen in a variety of roles in British and American television movies, TV miniseries and TV series, including Doctor Who , Portrait of a Marriage , Soldier Soldier , Inspector Morse, homicide Oxford , Cracker , Inspector Fowler , Keeping Mum , The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones , Hustle , Inspector Barnaby , Doc Martin , Chris Ryan's Strike Back or Penny Dreadful . In the BBC series Portrait of a Marriage he played the lead role of the writer and diplomat Harold Nicolson .

In the cinema, he played in 1984 in the Science-Fiction - Drama Dark Enemy directed by Colin Finbow in Mike Hodges Science Fiction Comedy Space Cracks in 1985, in Mike Newell's social satire Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994 and in Marc Lawrence's comedy Two Weeks Notice 2002 at the side of fellow actors Hugh Grant .

In addition, David Haig was seen as a versatile theater actor in numerous character roles in London's West End and in many other British theaters. In 1988 he won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor of the Year in a New Play for his performance in Our Country's Good at the Royal Court Theater . In 1997 he published the play My Boy Jack . Haig later toured the UK with a stage version of his play in which he also played the character of Rudyard Kipling . In 2007 a television film of the same name was released, which he co-produced, for which he wrote the screenplay and also took on the lead role.

Haig currently lives in South London. He is a father of five and a sponsor of SANDS , a charity that deals with stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

Awards

Publications

  • 1997: My Boy Jack - play by David Haig
  • 2000: The Good Samaritan - play by David Haig
  • 2012/13: Pressure - play by David Haig

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1978: The Moon Stallion (The Moon Stallion) (TV miniseries)
  • 1980: Doctor Who (4 episodes) as Pangol
  • 1983: Chessgame (1 episode)
  • 1986: The Alamut Ambush (TV movie)
  • 1986: Cold War Killers (TV movie)
  • 1989: Dramarama (1 episode)
  • 1990: Campion (2 episodes) as Guffy Randall
  • 1990: Portrait of a Marriage (4 episodes) as Harold Nicolson
  • 1991: Soldier Soldier (7 episodes) as Major Tom Cadman
  • 1992: Inspector Morse, Oxford Homicide Squad (1 episode)
  • 1993: The Darling Buds of May (2 episodes) as Captain Robert Battersby
  • 1993: Just in Case Fitz (Cracker) (2 episodes) as Graham
  • 1994: Love on a Branch Line (4 episodes) as Lionel Virley
  • 1994: Nice Day at the Office (6 episodes) as Chris Selwyn
  • 1995: Wycliffe (1 episode)
  • 1995–1996: Inspector Fowler - Harder Than Police Allow (The Thin Blue Line) (14 episodes) as DI Grim
  • 1996: Never Mind the Horrocks (TV movie)
  • 1997–1998: Keeping Mum (16 episodes) as Richard Beare
  • 1999: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (TV movie)
  • 2000: Dalziel and Pascoe (1 episode)
  • 2001: Station Jim (TV movie)
  • 2001: Ivor the Invisible (TV movie)
  • 2002: Crime and Punishment (TV movie)
  • 2004: Hustle - Dishonest lasts longest (Hustle) (1 episode)
  • 2006: A for Andromeda (TV movie)
  • 2007: Comic Relief 2007: The Big One (TV movie)
  • 2007: My Boy Jack (TV movie)
  • 2008: Dickens Secret Lover (TV movie)
  • 2008: Marple: Murder Is Easy (TV movie)
  • 2008: Dustbin Baby (TV movie)
  • 2008: The 39 Steps (TV movie)
  • 2009: Inspector Barnaby (Barnaby) (1 episode)
  • 2009: Doc Martin (2 episodes) as head
  • 2010: Mo (TV movie)
  • 2011: Chris Ryan's Strike Back (Strike Back) (2 episodes) as Christopher Manning
  • 2013: Yes, Prime Minister (6 episodes) as James Hacker
  • 2013: The Wright Way (6 episodes) as Gerald Wright
  • 2015: Penny Dreadful (5 episodes) as Oscar Putney
  • 2015: New Tricks - The Crime Specialists (1 episode) as Dr. Douglas Henway
  • 2016: The Witness for the Prosecution (TV miniseries) (2 episodes) as Sir Charles Carter

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Queen Elizabeth II. Birthday Honors List 2013 p. 60 (PDF; 668 kB)
  2. ↑ David Haig in: A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) , by Ann F. Howey, Stephen Ray Reimer - 2006, p. 517
  3. ↑ David Haig in: Film-Dienst , Volume 59, Issues 1-6, Catholic Institute for Media Information, Catholic Film Commission for Germany, 2006
  4. ^ David Haig in: London Theater Record , I. Herbert, 1989, p. 16
  5. ↑ Queen Elizabeth II. Birthday Honors List 2013 p. 60 (PDF; 668 kB)
  6. ↑ David Haig in: British Theater Guide ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishtheatreguide.info
  7. ↑ David Haig The Good Samaritan
  8. ↑ Thom Dibdin: Edinburgh Lyceum to stage new play by David Haig . In: The Stage . April 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Haig, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, David Haig Collum (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldershot , Hampshire , England