Colin Buchanan (actor)

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}

| birth_place = Dundee, Scotland

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| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Kim (divorced)

| children = Two daughters (Kira & Maya)

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Colin Buchanan (born 1966){{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/people/colin_buchanan_person_page.shtml |title=Colin Buchanan |author= |date=April 2007 |website=BBC Drama |publisher=BBC UK |accessdate=27 January 2014}} is a Scottish actor who is best known for playing Detective Peter Pascoe in the BBC television series Dalziel and Pascoe which commenced in March 1996 and ran until June 2007.{{cite web|author=Born: 1968, Dundee |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2baeb501db |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508030634/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2baeb501db |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 May 2014 |title=Colin Buchanan | BFI | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |accessdate=7 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/dalziel/characters/pascoe_person_page.shtml |title=Drama - Dalziel and Pascoe Characters Peter Pascoe |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://epguides.com/DalzielandPascoe/ |title=Dalziel and Pascoe (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) |publisher=Epguides.com |date=31 July 2011 |accessdate=7 May 2014}}

Career

Buchanan's breakthrough television role came in the detective series A Touch of Frost in 1994 playing Constable Austin in three episodes.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dbqxp/a-touch-of-frost--series-2---3-nothing-to-hide---part-one |title=A Touch of Frost | Series 2 - 3. Nothing to Hide - Part One |work=Radio Times|date=4 February 2014 |accessdate=7 May 2014}} In 1996 he commenced playing DS (later DI) Peter Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe.{{cite web |author=TV.com |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/dalziel-and-pascoe/episodes/ |title=Dalziel and Pascoe - Episode Guide |publisher=TV.com |date=1 March 1996 |accessdate=7 May 2014 |archive-date=20 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220072328/http://www.tv.com/shows/dalziel-and-pascoe/episodes/ |url-status=dead }} Buchanan has also appeared in comedy drama television series All Quiet on the Preston Front (later called Preston Front),{{cite web |url=http://www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk/pfront/pers.htm |title=THE PRESTON FRONT PAGE: Cast and Characters |publisher=Mjnewton.demon.co.uk |accessdate=7 May 2014 |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906152649/http://www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk/pfront/pers.htm |url-status=dead }} The Bill, Between the Lines, Dangerfield, Heartbeat, Space Island One and Brief Encounters.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117991/?ref_=tt_ov_st Colin Buchanan Actor/Director IMDb Retrieved 7 May 2014]

Buchanan had a supporting role in the feature movie Red Hot (1993) also starring Donald Sutherland and Balthazar Getty,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/175585/Red-Hot/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508030845/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/175585/Red-Hot/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 May 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Mark Deming |date=2014 |title=Red-Hot - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |accessdate=7 May 2014}} a featured role in Witness Against Hitler (1995),{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7e3a34f5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805112530/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7e3a34f5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2012 |title=Witness against Hitler | BFI | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |accessdate=7 May 2014}} starred in the television movie of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1996) as Mark Easterbrook.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7f483360 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714191912/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7f483360 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 July 2012 |title=Agatha Christie's the Pale Horse | BFI | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |accessdate=7 May 2014}} Another BBC TV role Buchanan had was as the aristocratic seducer of Moll, in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996).{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/colin-buchanan/ |title=Colin Buchanan profile: news, photos, style, videos and more – HELLO! Online |publisher=Hellomagazine.com |date=1 January 2001 |accessdate=7 May 2014}} He also starred as Freddie Musgrave in Catherine Cookson's The Secret (1999). In 2009 he co-starred in the CBC TV film Diverted.

Colin Buchanan has narrated several Reginald Hill audio books, including Deadheads and Exit Lines.{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11540513?selectedversion=NBD20462302 |title=Deadheads / by Reginald Hill ; read by Colin Buchanan. [sound recording] / - Version details - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |accessdate=7 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.audible.com.au/search?searchNarrator=Colin+Buchanan |title=Colin Buchanan Audiobooks |publisher=Audible.com.au |accessdate=7 May 2014}}

Personal life

Buchanan was born and brought up in Dundee, Scotland. He is a graduate of the Drama Centre London (1991). Buchanan has two daughters, Kira and Maya, with his ex-wife, Kim.{{cite news|title=Dalziel and Pascoe's Colin Buchanan makes his Birmingham stage debut in JP Priestley's Dangerous Corner|url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/dalziel-pascoes-colin-buchanan-makes-8018053|accessdate=30 September 2016|work=The Birmingham Post|date=3 November 2014}} He is a keen supporter of Birmingham City F.C.

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id=0117991|name=Colin Buchanan}}

Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:Scottish male television actors

Category:Scottish male film actors

Category:20th-century Scottish male actors

Category:21st-century Scottish male actors

Category:Male actors from Dundee