Timothy L. McInnerny (/ˌmækɪˈnɜːrni/ MAK-in-UR-nee; born 18 September 1956) is a British actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder.
Tim McInnerny | |
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 McInnerny at a presentation of Severance in 2006 | |
| Born | Timothy L. McInnerny 18 September 1956 Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England |
| Education | Marling School |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Annie Gosney |
Early life
editMcInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny.[1] He has one sister, Lizzy, who is also an actress.[citation needed] He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976[2] after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.[3]
Career
editTelevision
editMcInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (The Black Adder) and the second series (Blackadder II); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and returned to play Captain Kevin Darling in the fourth series (Blackadder Goes Forth), a character significantly different from the Lords Percy.
He had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. More recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK (2011) as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks (2012). In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.[4]
In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show I Love the '70s: "I think shows like Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour need to be remembered for what they were; truly fantastic examples of sitcom writing that hasn't been seen since. The content is unfortunate in the cold light of modern society, but that's no reason to stop praising the sheer brilliance of the writers that ITV had in its ranks during that decade."[5]
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Black Adder | Lord Percy Percy | |
| 1985 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | John Clay Vincent Spalding |
Episode: "The Red-Headed League" |
| Edge of Darkness | Terry Shields | ||
| 1986 | Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna | Yakovlev | |
| Blackadder II | Lord Percy Percy | ||
| 1987 | Blackadder the Third | Topper The Scarlet Pimpernel |
Episode: "Nob and Nobility" |
| 1988 | A Very British Coup | Fiennes | Three-part TV serial |
| 1989 | Blackadder Goes Forth | Captain Kevin Darling | |
| 1992 | The Bill | Kevin Finch | Episode: "Open to Offers" |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Franz Kafka | Episode: "Prague, August 1917" |
| 1997 | Tracey Takes On... | Timothy Bugge | |
| 1999 | Blackadder: Back and Forth | Archdeacon Darling the Duke of Darling le Duc de Darling |
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| The Vice | Max Wilson | episode "Sons" (Parts 1 and 2) | |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Barabbas | voice only |
| 2002 | Don't Eat the Neighbours | Terrapin | |
| Trial & Retribution | Eric Fowler | Series 6 | |
| 2004 | Spooks | Oliver Mace | |
| Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | Reverend Leonard Clement | ||
| Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Cecil | ||
| 2006 | The Line of Beauty | Gerald Fedden | TV miniseries |
| 2008 | Doctor Who | Klineman Halpen | Episode: "Planet of the Ood" Series 4 |
| 2009 | Hustle | Judge Anthony Kent | |
| Inspector George Gently | Geoffrey Pershore | Episode: "Gently Through the Mill" | |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Hugh Dalgleish | Episode: "The Sword of Guillaume" #13.2 |
| 2011 | Law & Order: UK | Simon Bennett | Episode: "Haunted" |
| Twenty Twelve | Tony Ward | Episode #1.6 | |
| The Body Farm | Richard Warner | Episode "You've Got Visitors" | |
| 2011–2012 | New Tricks | Stephen Fisher | Episodes: "The Gentleman That Vanished", "A Death in the Family" and "Part of a Whole" |
| 2012 | The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff | Harmswell Grimstone | Episodes: "#1.1", "#1.2", "#1.3" |
| 2014 | Castles in the Sky | Churchill | |
| Outlander | Father Bain | ||
| Utopia | Airey Neave | Episode: "Episode 1" | |
| The Boy in the Dress | Mr Hawthorn | ||
| 2015 | Strike Back: Legacy | Robin Foster | |
| 2016 | Sherlock | Eustace Carmichael | Episode: "The Abominable Bride" |
| Houdini and Doyle | Horace Merring | Episodes: "#1", "#2", "#8" | |
| 2016–2017 | Game of Thrones | Robett Glover | Episodes: "The Broken Man", "The Winds of Winter", "Dragonstone", "Stormborn" , "Eastwatch" |
| 2016 | National Treasure | Karl | |
| 2017 | In the Dark | Frank Linnell | Episodes: 1.3, 1.4 |
| Strike | Daniel Chard | The Silkworm | |
| Harlots | Lord Repton | Episodes: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 | |
| 2018 | Strangers | Arthur Bach | |
| 2019–2020 | The Trial of Christine Keeler | Martin Redmayne | Recurring role |
| 2020 | The Windermere Children | Leonard Montefiore | |
| Gangs of London | Mr Jacob | Episode: 1.9 | |
| 2021 | The Serpent | Paul Siemons | |
| 2022 | Ten Percent | Simon Gould | [6] |
| 2023 | Mrs. Davis | Apron Man | Episodes: "Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung", "A Baby with Wings, a Sad Boy with Wings and a Great Helmet" |
| 2024 | One Day | Stephen Mayhew |
Film
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Dead on Time | Customer | Short film |
| 1985 | Wetherby | John Morgan | |
| 1989 | Erik the Viking | Sven the Berserk | |
| 1995 | Richard III | William Catesby | |
| 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Alonzo | |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | John Ferret | |
| 1999 | Rogue Trader | Tony Hawes | |
| Notting Hill | Max | ||
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Alonzo | |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Dr. Lambert | |
| 2005 | Casanova | The Doge | |
| 2006 | Severance | Richard | |
| 2008 | The Devil's Whore | Joliffe | |
| 2010 | Black Death | Hob | |
| 2011 | Johnny English Reborn | Patch Quartermain | |
| 2014 | The Minister of Chance | The King | |
| 2014 | Automata | Vernon Conway | |
| 2015 | Spooks: The Greater Good | Oliver Mace | |
| 2016 | Eddie The Eagle | Target | |
| 2017 | The Hippopotamus | Roddy | |
| 2018 | Agatha and the Truth of Murder | Randolph | |
| Peterloo | Prince Regent | ||
| Sometimes Always Never | Arthur | ||
| 2019 | Killers Anonymous | Calvin | |
| The Aeronauts | Airy | [7] | |
| 2022 | Marooned Awakening | Karl | Voice |
| 2022 | Stromboli | Harold | |
| 2024 | The End | Butler | |
| Gladiator II | Thraex |
Radio
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie | By Nick Darke |
| 1999 | The Saturday Play: Two Planks and a Passion | Earl of Oxford | |
| 2001 | Habbakuk of Ice | Geoffrey Pyke | by Steve Walker |
| 2004 | The Odyssey | Odysseus | Adapted by Simon Armitage |
| 2010 | I, Claudius | Tiberius | |
| 2013 | Headlong | Tony Churt | |
| 2017 | King Solomon's Mines | Allan Quatermain | |
| 2022 | Make Death Love Me | Antony |
Theatre
editIn 1985 he was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.[8]
He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.[9]
In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.[10]
Selected theatre performances
- Clitandre in The Misanthrope by Moliere. Directed by Casper Wrede at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1981)
- Charlie in Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley. Directed by John Dillon at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1982)
- Billy Bibbitt in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman. Directed by Greg Hersov at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1982)
- Mick in The Caretaker by Harold Pinter. Directed by Richard Negri at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1983)
- Orsino in Twelfth Night. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1988)
Music
editIn 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work".[11] He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Tim McInnerny Biography". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ "Famous Wadhamites". Retrieved 14 January 2017.[dead link]
- ^ Roberts, J F (2014). The True History of the Black Adder: At Last, the Cunning Plan, in All Its Hideous Hilarity. Random House UK. p. 23. ISBN 9780099564164.
- ^ "New photos from Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 7 "The Broken Man"". Watchers on the Wall. 1 June 2016.
- ^ "BBC Two – I Love the 1970s". BBC. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ Nicholson, Rebecca (28 April 2022). "Ten Percent review – a perfectly pleasant if pointless remake of Call My Agent!". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (15 August 2018). "Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne Ballooning Pic 'The Aeronauts' Under Way in UK, Amazon Releases Striking First-Look". Deadline. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Production of Pravda – Theatricalia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "RockyMusic – The Rocky Horror Show (London Cast – The Whole Gory) (1990)". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ Billington, Michael (26 May 2007). "Theatre review: Othello / Shakespeare's Globe, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "This Woman's Work – Kate Bush Encyclopedia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "Patrons & Judges". Norwich Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.