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Bernard Holley is a Actor British born on 9 august 1940

Bernard Holley

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 august 1940
Death 22 november 2021 (at 81 years)

Bernard Holley (born 9 August 1940 in Eastcote, Middlesex) is a British actor whose career has spanned more than 40 years. He attended the Rose Bruford Drama School and Kilburn Grammar School, and made his first professional stage appearance at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln.

Holley first rose to prominence in the long-running UK police drama series Z-Cars as PC Newcombe, a character he would play for four years. He is also well known for his appearances in Doctor Who, first as Peter Haydon in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, and later as the Axon Man in The Claws of Axos (1971), starring Jon Pertwee. Holley reprised his role as Axos in a new Doctor Who audio drama, The Feast of Axos, opposite Colin Baker, which was released on CD in February 2011.

Other regular roles include The Gentle Touch as Detective Inspector Mike Turnbull (1982–84), a character he also played in the follow-up series C.A.T.S. Eyes in 1985. He later played Richard in two seasons of Birds of a Feather in 1998. He also appeared as the Chief Constable in the popular drama series A Touch of Frost, starring David Jason, in 1999 and returned to play the role in 2003. His recent television appearances include Hollyoaks, EastEnders, Doctors and Holby City.

His film roles have included appearances in Travels with My Aunt (1972) starring Maggie Smith, and the cult film The Deadly Females (1976). He has also voiced hundreds of commercials, including the TV campaign for the PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet and has presented many corporate videos.

Holley has also worked consistently on the stage in theatres all over the UK, including Brighton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Derby and Norwich. His most recent stage role was in Allan Monkhouse's Mary Broome at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2011.

Biography

Bernard Holley naît le 9 août 1940 à Eastcote, dans le Middlesex. Son premier rôle notable est celui de Bill Newcombe, dans la série Z-Cars, qu'il joue durant 4 années, pour un total de 277 épisodes.
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Brick Lane
Brick Lane (2007)
, 1h37
Directed by Sarah Gavron
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, La précarité, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Bernard Holley
Roles News Reporter
Rating65% 3.2936453.2936453.2936453.2936453.293645
The film tells the story of Nazneen, who grew up in rural Bangladesh, in the district of Mymensingh. At 17 she has an arranged marriage to Chanu Ahmed, who is twice her age. They soon move to Brick Lane in London, the centre of the British Bangladeshi community. She leaves behind her sister and her family home.
Ahead of the Class, 1h34
Directed by Adrian Shergold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Julie Walters, Inday Ba, Reece Dinsdale, Michelle Fairley, Hannah Yelland, Katherine Parkinson
Roles Bill Stubbs
Rating69% 3.476653.476653.476653.476653.47665
Marie Stubbs is a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is close to the age of retirement. After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in North West London. The school is facing closure after its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, was murdered in 1995, while breaking up a fight between his pupils and students from a rival school.
Travels with My Aunt, 1h49
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Raymond Gérôme, Cindy Williams
Roles Bobby
Rating62% 3.146943.146943.146943.146943.14694
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets aging eccentric Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith), a flaming redhead who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth (Louis Gossett Jr.), is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens), with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000 ($433,000 in 2013 dollars).