Simon MacCorkindale

Known for ActingBorn 1952-02-12Died 2010-10-14Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (February 12, 1952 - October 14, 2010) was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. He spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father serving as an Officer with the Royal Air Force. Poor eyesight prevented him following a similar career in the RAF, so he instead planned to become a theatre director. Training at the Theatre of Arts in London, he started work as an actor, making his West End debut in 1974. He went on to appear in numerous roles in television, including the series I, Claudius and Jesus of Nazareth, before starring as Simon Doyle in the film Death on the Nile. This proved to be a breakthrough role and allowed him to move to the United States, where he appeared in a variety of films and TV series including Quatermass, The Riddle of the Sands, The Sword and the Sorcerer, and Jaws 3-D. In 1983, MacCorkindale starred in the short-lived series Manimal as the lead character, Dr. Jonathan Chase, before taking up the longer-running role of lawyer Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s he directed and produced many stage, TV and film productions through his company Amy International Artists, such as the film Stealing Heaven (1988). Moving to Canada, he starred as Peter Sinclair in the series Counterstrike for three years. He returned to the United Kingdom in 2002 and joined the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty, appearing in the role of Harry Harper for six years until 2008.Read more

Movies & web series

Will Shakespeare

Beasts: Baby

Water War

Mentors

Adventure Inc.

I, Claudius

Jesus of Nazareth

Running Wild

La Femme Nikita

New Tricks

Natural World

Manimal

Counterstrike

Hammer House of Horror

Death on the Nile

Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet

An Outpost of Progress

The Manions of America

Beasts

Earth: Final Conflict

Relic Hunter

Hart to Hart

Robbers Of The Sacred Mountain

Quatermass

Night Man

The House that Mary Bought

Family of Cops

Dynasty

Romeo and Juliet

The Merv Griffin Show

Macbeth

Matt Houston

The Doombolt Chase

The Dinosaur Hunter

Casualty

Such a Long Journey

Juggernaut

The Way to Dusty Death

The Riddle of the Sands

Twist of Fate

That Summer of White Roses

At the Midnight Hour

A Closed Book

Falcon Crest

The Sword and the Sorcerer

Obsessive Love

Caboblanco

While My Pretty One Sleeps