Roger Sloman
{{Short description|English actor}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Roger Sloman
| image = File:Roger Sloman in "Mr. Bean" (episode).png
| caption = Sloman in "Mr. Bean" (1990)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|5|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Harlesden, Middlesex, England
| occupation = Actor
| television = Nuts in May (1976)
A Kick Up the Eighties (1981–1984)
EastEnders (1992, 2012, 2014–2016)
Crossroads (2001–2003)
| spouse = {{marriage|Cheryl Aldrige|1980}}
| children = 3
}}
Roger Sloman (born 19 May 1946) is an English actor known for his work in theatre, film and television.
Early life and education
He grew up and was educated in South East London. He trained to be a teacher and then went to East 15 acting school between 1967 and 1970.
Career
He started work at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, followed by theatre work in Nottingham, Birmingham and Sheffield. He toured England and Scotland with the 7:84 theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
On television, Sloman is best known as Keith in Mike Leigh's Nuts in May,{{cite book | last=Graves | first=A. | title=Prevenge | publisher=Liverpool University Press | series=Devil's Advocates | year=2021 | isbn=978-1-80085-770-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pm5vEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 | access-date=2024-04-05 | page=33}}{{cite book | last1=Leigh | first1=M. | last2=Movshovitz | first2=H. | title=Mike Leigh: Interviews | publisher=University Press of Mississippi | series=Conversations with filmmakers series | year=2000 | isbn=978-1-57806-068-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDT77Av5tvYC&pg=PR16 | language=fr | access-date=2024-04-05 | page=16}}{{cite web |last1=Scovell |first1=Adam |title=Back to the land: 40 years of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mike-leigh-nuts-may-alison-steadman |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=5 April 2024 |date=22 December 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Katherine |title=Alison Steadman recalls bonkers moments filming with Mike Leigh, 1976 |url=https://www.pebblemill.org/blog/nuts-in-may-article |website=Pebble Mill |access-date=5 April 2024}} as well as Baldy Davitt in Ripping Yarns, Three-Fingered Pete in The Black Adder and Right Bleedin' Bastard in The Young Ones. He was Rocky Wesson in the return series of the ITV soap opera Crossroads, and the funeral director Les Coker in the BBC soap opera' 'EastEnders.{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Rachel |title=EASTENDERS 'EastEnders' Spoilers: Les And Pam Coker Actors Roger Sloman and Lin Blakley To Leave The Soap |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eastenders-spoilers-pam-les-leaving_uk_579b046ce4b0459aae5d3499 |access-date=5 April 2024 |work=Huffington Post |date=29 July 2016}} He played the abrasive games teacher Mr Dan 'Frosty' Foster in the first series of Grange Hill (1978) and he appeared in one edition of Bad Boyes (1987). In 1989, he appeared in the first episode of Press Gang as Mr. Vader. In 1991 and 1992, he played the landlord "Mr Harrison" opposite Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in the Bottom'' episodes "Up" and "Holy". He also worked in educational television.{{cite web |title=Programmes for Schools and Colleges |url=https://www.tvcream.co.uk/telly/schools-and-colleges/programmes-for-schools-and-colleges/ |website=TV Cream |access-date=5 April 2024 |date=29 June 2009 |quote=Mathscore One and Two, which numbered Nuts In May star Roger Sloman among its presenters}}
His film appearances include Lenin in Reds, by Warren Beatty.
Sloman has worked many times at the National Theatre in London playing, amongst others, Bardolph in Henry IV. He also appeared as Magwitch in Great Expectations at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.{{cite book | last=Hammond | first=M. | title=Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860–2012 | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-317-16825-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mCrCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA219 | access-date=2024-04-05 | page=219}}
Filmography
= Film =
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1973
|2nd House |Soft or a Girl cast member |Episode: "2nd House in Liverpool" |
| 1975
|Cosby |Episode: "Trojan Bus" |
| 1976
|Brian Geddes |Episode: "Pigmented Patter: Part 1" |
| 1976
|Centre Play |Picket leader |Episode: "Showcase: Riding South" |
| 1976–1982
|Joe / Presenting Officer at Tribunal / Keith Pratt |3 episodes |
| 1977
|Arnold March |Episode: "Sons and Daughters" |
| 1977
|Sergeant Cosley |Episode: "Lady Sybill" |
| 1977
|Josiah Fosdyke / Officer / Ruuek |{{N/a}} |
| 1978
|Mr. Foster |2 episodes |
| 1978
|Alf |Episode: "Princess Griselda's Birthday Gift" |
| 1978
|George Bradley |Episode: "Hazell and the Weekend Man" |
| 1978
|Ted |Episode: "The Sweetest Thing" |
| 1978
|All Creatures Great and Small |Mr. Bantock |Episode: "Practice Makes Perfect" |
| 1978
|Barère |Episode: "Danton's Death" |
| 1978
|Pickersgill People |DS Terry Tuohy |Episode: "Under the Moon of Love" |
| 1979
|Cliff Worsley |Episode: "Rumpole and the Fascist Beast" |
| 1979
|Lovely Couple |Jack 'Rollo' Dent |3 episodes |
| 1979
|'Baldy' Davitt |Episode: "Golden Gordon" |
| 1979
|Freshfield |Episode: "Listen to Me" |
| 1979
|An Honourable Retirement |Arthur |Television film |
| 1980
|Spy! |Branko Vukelic |Episode: "The Tokyo Ring" |
| 1980
|Reg |Episode: "Jumping the Gun" |
| 1981
|{{N/a}} |Episode #19.5 |
| 1981
|Seven Dials Mystery |Stevens |Television film |
| 1981
|Coming Home |Ted Maddocks |6 episodes |
| 1981
|Roger Horrabin |Episode: "Ice and Dust" |
| 1981
|John Knight |Episode: "The Hit" |
| 1981
|Theatre Box |Dr. Snead |Episode: "You Must Believe All This" |
| 1981–1984
|Various roles |10 episodes |
| 1982
|Clifford |Episode: "The Rough with the Smooth" |
| 1982
|Silver |Episode: "Dreamhouse" |
| 1982
|Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door |Park Keeper |Television film |
| 1982
|Harry Tomkins |3 episodes |
| 1982, 1984
|Henry / Guard on TV / Right Bleeding Bastard |2 episodes |
| 1983
|Three Fingered Pete |Episode: "The Black Seal" |
| 1983
|Heartattack Hotel |Harry Clench |Television film |
| 1983, 1984
|Up the Elephant and Round the Castle |Councillor Bertram Allnutt |2 episodes |
| 1983–1989
|Mr. Visor / Dad / Inspector Brown |3 episodes |
| 1984
|Starstrider |{{N/a}} |
| 1984
|Kev Wilson |Episode: "Snap" |
| 1985
|Ernie | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 1985
|Max Headroom{{cite book | last1=Phillips | first1=M. | last2=Garcia | first2=F. | title=Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 through 1989 | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4766-1030-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXeNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT405 | access-date=2024-04-05 | page=405}} |Murray |
| 1985
|Bank manager |Episode #1.3 |
| 1985
| |Episode #2.3 |
| 1985
|Police Sergeant |Episode: "Mistaken Identity" |
| 1985
|Mrs. Capper's Birthday |David |Television film |
| 1986
|Mr. Pinder |Episode: "Private Enterprise" |
| 1986
|Dennis |6 episodes |
| 1986
|Henry's Leg |Det. Sgt. Runcie |Episode #1.5 |
| 1987
|Mr. Mackintosh |only 2 episodes broadcast |
| 1987
|Man in the Precinct |Episode: "Money" |
| 1987
|Police Sergeant |Episode: "The Prowler" |
| 1988
|Ted Perkins |Episode #1.3 |
| 1988
|Grimes |Episode: "The African Queen" |
| 1988
|Casting Off |Everyone else |Episode: "Jumper Company" |
| 1988–1989
|Hilary Rolls |28 episodes |
| 1989
|Mr. Vader |Episode: "Page One" |
| 1989
|Snakes and Ladders |Mr Lambie |4 episodes |
| 1989
|Roger |Episode: "The Go Between" |
| 1990
|P. C. Clod |Episode: "Elementary, My Dear What-Not" |
| 1990–1991
|Roper | rowspan="2" |2 episodes |
| 1990–1992
|The Heart Attack Man / The Blind Man |
| 1991
|Mr. Roebuck |Episode: "Sleeping Sickness" |
| 1991
|Dr. Lionel Snell |6 episodes |
| 1991
|Gerry |Episode: "A Roman Empire" |
| 1991
|Inspector Victor Deffand |7 episodes |
| 1991–1992
|Mr. Harrison |2 episodes |
| 1992
|Ted |Episode: "Angel Trousers" |
| 1992
|Boon |Raymond Pearce |Episode: "The Sharp End" |
| 1992
|The Life and Times of Henry Pratt |Neville Chamberlain |Episode #1.2 |
| 1992
|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |Episode: "Petrograd, July 1917" |
| 1992
|Ronald |Episode: "Home" |
| 1992
|3 episodes (see also 2012) |
| 1993
|Inspector |Episode: "The Gun" |
| 1993
|The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries |PC Perkins |Episode: "The Nursing Home Murder" |
| 1994
|Pete |Episode: "The Christening" |
| 1994
|Inspector Platt |5 episodes |
| 1994
|Sydney Pinner |Episode: "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor!" |
| 1994
|Workman |Episode: "A Piece of Cake" |
| 1994
|Gerald Prout |Episode: "The Four Jacks" |
| 1994
|Larry Dawes |Episode: "Blackout" |
| 1995
|Mr Barnes |2 episodes |
| 1995
|Maslowska |4 episodes |
| 1995
|Time After Time |Charlie Conway |Episode: "On the Run" |
| 1996
|Wiggins |Television film |
| 1996, 2004
|Sandy / Inspector Les Hackett |2 episodes |
| 1997
|George |Episode: "Out of Town" |
| 1997
|Ron Springer |Television film |
| 1997
|Inspector Dawkins |Episode: "God Has Smiled Down on Me" |
| 1997
|William Cockerill |9 episodes |
| 1997
|Richard II |Lord Ross |Television film |
| 1998
|Mr. Marshall |Episode: "There Are No Minicabs in Heaven" |
| 1999
|Mr. Potts |Episode: "Take Her Back" |
| 2000
|Mr. Badcock |Episode: "Summer" |
| 2000
|Ralph Bailey |Episode: "Beyond the Grave" |
| 2000
|Kissing Town Sheriff |Episode #1.7 |
| 2000
|I Saw You |Mr. Frost |Television film |
| 2000
|Police Officer |Episode: "Farewell to Alarms" |
| 2001
|Mr. Hines |Episode #1.5 |
| 2001–2003
|Rocky Wesson |6 episodes |
| 2003
|Derke |2 episodes |
| 2004
|Norman |Episode #1.6 |
| 2005, 2009
|Gordon Harcombe / Lewis Cooper | rowspan="2" |2 episodes |
| 2007
|Charlie |
| 2008
|Ernie Pond |Episode: "Broken Souls" |
| 2009
|Ted Hopkins |Episode: "First Love Last Love" |
| 2009
|Mr. Todd |2 episodes |
| 2009
|The Fairy Queen |Starveling |Television film |
| 2011
|Trevor |Episode: "Together in Heaven" |
| 2011
|Apprentice-style Boss |Episode: "Aspiration" |
| 2012, 2014–2016
|173 episodes |
| 2013
|Wild Bill |Episode: "Departure" |
| 2014
|Bill |Episode: "The Understudy" |
| 2015
|Les Coker |Episode dated 13 November 2015 |
| 2017
|Ted |Episode: "The School Trip" |
| 2018
|George |Episode: "Christmas Special" |
| 2021
|Bob |Episode: "No Connection" |
| 2022-2024
|Multiple roles |Three episodes |
| 2024
|Frank |Episode: The Committee |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0806149}}
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Category:English male film actors
Category:English male soap opera actors