Nicholas Day (actor)
{{Short description|British actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Nicholas Day
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|birth_name = Nicholas Patrick Day
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|10|16|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Gillingham, Kent, England
|occupation = Actor
|years_active = 1969–present
}}
Nicholas Patrick Day (born 16 October 1947) is an English actor, who is currently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters and also starred as Anthony Fox in ITV soap Emmerdale.
Life
Day was educated at Alleyn's School, a private day school in the South London suburb of Dulwich, before studying at the University of Bristol acting with their drama department. {{Cite web |date=1968-07-09 |title=University Drama Department “The Spanish Tragedy” |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-post-university-drama-department/159121009/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}} Day was a supply teacher at Plumstead Manor School for Girls' for a brief time during the early 1980s, where he taught drama.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
Acting
He is perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Michael Morley in Minder from 1991 to 1993. He also played Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan in Series One of the BBC drama New Tricks. He portrayed Jack The Ripper, in series six (episode five) of Goodnight Sweetheart in 1999, and played another police officer, DCS John Meredith, in a single episode of Foyle's War in 2008. In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and The Take, and as Martin Crisp in The Dogleg Murders (Series 12 of Midsomer Murders.)
His film roles include appearances in Penelope Pulls It Off (1975), The Golden Bowl (2000), Russian Dolls (2005) and Amazing Grace (2006).{{cite web |title=Apple TV |url=https://tv.apple.com/us/person/nicholas-day/ |website=AppleTV}}
= 2010s =
In 2010 he played Colonel Montford in Joe Johnston's horror film The Wolfman.
In 2013, he played the headmaster in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
He also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for seven seasons including the World Shakespeare Festival, working on classics like The Tempest and Twelfth Night.{{Cite web|url = http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/theatre-events-actor-inspired-for-role-by-going-back-to-school-1-5676754|title = Theatre & Events: Actor inspired for role by going back to school|website = www.thestar.co.uk|access-date = 2016-03-14}}
Since 2015 he has presented Murder Maps which is made by Netflix in the United Kingdom and is now in its fifth series in the UK. Murder Maps is also shown on Yesterday. In 2021, he narrated Railway Murders.{{cite web |title=Railway Murders |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/railway_murders/s01#desktopEpisodeList |language=en}}
= 2020's =
Currently Nicholas is in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale playing Anthony Fox the father of Ruby and grandfather of Stephanie.
Filmography
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|+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1975
|Penelope Pulls It Off |Jeremiah | |
| 1977
|Sgt. Major Errol |1 Episode “Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B” |
| 1980
|Can We Get on Now, Please? |Mr. Marplot |1 Episode “Variations in Two Flats” |
| 1980
|Grundy |Salvatore |1 Episode “Hands Across the Table” |
| 1981
|Igor Ozolin |1 Episode “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” |
| 1981
|Chintz |James Oglethorpe |1 Episode |
| 1981
|Gaskell |1 Episode “Frankly Speaking” |
| 1981
|Surg. Lt. Commander |1 Episode “The Grudge Fight” |
| 1982
|Dr. Holroyd |1 Episode “Grandad” |
| 1982
|Bannen |3 Episodes |
| 1982-1983
|Sissons/DHSS Man |2 Episodes |
| 1983
|Paul Deedman |3 Episodes |
| 1983
| |1 Episode “A Matter of Trust: Part 1” |
| 1983
|P.C. Baxter |1 Episode “Raffles” |
| 1983
|Heartattack Hotel |Roddie |TV Movie |
| 1983-1985
|Up the Elephant and Round the Castle |Councillor Arnold Moggs/D.H.S.S. Manager |11 Episodes |
| 1984
|Mark Patton |1 Episode |
| 1984
|Pull the Other One |Vicar |1 Episode “Grandma Strikes Back” |
| 1985
|Summer Season |Merton |1 Episode “A Still Small Shout” |
| 1985-1986
|Burgas/Fairbrother |2 Episodes |
| 1986
|Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy |Peter Howes |6 Episodes |
| 1986
|Martland |1 Episode “The Bombay Ducks” |
| 1986
|Mr. Blandford |1 Episode “And Baby Makes Five” |
| 1987
|Bust |Henry Webster |1 Episode “Selling a Dummy” |
| 1987
|The Michael Barrymore Special |Himself |TV Special |
| 1988
|Parkes |1 Episode “Home Front” |
| 1989
|Vote for Them |Captain Carrington |3 Episodes |
| 1989
|After the War |Frank Kitson |4 Episodes |
| 1989
|Terence Swift |1 Episode “Three Blind Mice” |
| 1990
|Made in Heaven |Vicar |1 Episode “Falling for Love” |
| 1990
|George |1 Episode “Happy Holiday” |
| 1990
|The Return of Shelley |Dr. P. Smith |1 Episode “Brainstrain” |
| 1991
|Alec Statham |1 Episode “One Born Every Minute” |
| 1991
|Malcolm Barclay |9 Episodes |
| 1991-1993
|D.S. Morley |16 Episodes |
| 1992
|Brian |7 Episodes |
| 1992
|Himself (Dictionary Corner) |1 Episode |
| 1993
|Tax Officer |1 Episode “Henry’s Lost Love” |
| 1995
|Charles Kendrick |1 Episode “The Absence of War” |
| 1995-1999
|Frank Wallace/Referee |2 Episodes |
| 1996
|Alan Jacobs |1 Episode “True Commitment” |
| 1997-1999
|Mr. Archer |12 Episodes |
| 1998
|Human Bomb |Police commissioner |TV Movie |
| 1999
|1 Episode “…The ‘Ouses in Between” |
| 1999
|Gregg |4 Episodes |
| 2000
|The Wilsons |Mr. Green |1 Episode, Credited as Nick Day |
| 2000
|Lord Castledean | |
| 2000
|DCI Bran Minter |1 Episode, Credited as Nick Day |
| 2000
|Sabotage! |General 2 - Abel |Credited as Nick Day |
| 2000
|DCI Frank ‘Raquel’ Welch |TV Movie |
| 2001
|The Inspector Lynley Mysteries |Chief Superintendent Hilllier |1 Episode “A Great Deliverance” |
| 2002
|Lord Brackenshaw |4 Episodes |
| 2003
|Harold Ashcroft |1 Episode “Search for Arthur” |
| 2003
|Lord Raveley |1 Episode |
| 2004
|Donald Bevan |6 Episodes |
| 2004
|Warwick Jardine |1 Episode “The Memory of Water” |
| 2004
|Godot Isn’t Coming |Potts |Short |
| 2004-2007
|Tom Giddens/Dry Cleaner |2 Episodes |
| 2005
|Père William | |
| 2006
| |
| 2008
|DCS John Meredith |1 Episode “Plan of Attack” |
| 2009
|TV Movie |
| 2009
|Martin Crisp |1 Episode “The Dogleg Murders” |
| 2009
|Freddie Senior |2 Episodes |
| 2009
|1 Episode |
| 2009
|Easier Ways to Make a Living |Latimer |Short |
| 2010
|Colonel Montford | |
| 2010
|John Howell |1 Episode “Yetis on the Golf Course” |
| 2012
|Eliminate: Archie Cookson |Spymaster George | |
| 2013
|Ingles |1 Episode “The Big Four” |
| 2015
|Charles Jaspar | |
| 2015
|Pleasure Island |Tony | |
| 2015-2020
|Murder Maps |Himself |25 Episodes |
| 2016
|Kenneth LeBlanc/Heston (voice) |Podcast Series, 3 Episodes |
| 2016
|Jump Cut Jeff |Jeff |Short |
| 2017
|Oliver |The Man |Short |
| 2017
|TV Movie |
| 2017
|Myths & Monsters |Himself |6 Episodes |
| 2020
|2 Episodes |
| 2021
|Jorah (voice) |Podcast Series, 1 Episode “Heart of Ice” |
| 2021
|Himself |6 Episodes |
| 2024
|Aguska |Malcolm |Short |
| 2024–2025
| |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0206530|name=Nicholas Day}}
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Category:English male film actors
Category:Male actors from Kent
Category:Actors from Gillingham, Kent
Category:20th-century English male actors