Maurice Roëves

Known for ActingBorn 1937-03-19Died 2020-07-14Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK

John Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a British actor. His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans. In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Guardians

El C.I.D.

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Solid Air

The Negotiator

Orkney

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Skins

Case Histories

The Sweeney

Danger UXB

Vanity Fair

Doctor Who

Jason King

A Touch of Frost

The New Statesman

Cheers

Murder, She Wrote

The Damned United

The Last of the Mohicans

Oil Strike North

Waking the Dead

Lytton's Diary

Spender

Hillsborough

Magnum, P.I.

The Chinese Detective

Tutti Frutti

Hunter

Paul Temple

Remington Steele

Moses

Rumpole of the Bailey

Hidden Agenda

Inside the Third Reich

An Enemy of the People

Return of the Saint

Bergerac

Target

Out of the Unknown

Hallam Foe

Luna

Playhouse

Escape to Victory

Mackintosh

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

David

Macbeth