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Roy Marsden (born Roy Anthony Mould; 25 June 1941 [not verified in body]) is an English actor who portrayed Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations (1983–1998) of P. D. James's detective novels, and Neil Burnside in the spy drama The Sandbaggers (1979–1980).
The series begins roughly six months after Burnside has become Director of Operations. Fiercely protective of his agents, Burnside tries to keep them from being abused by others in power, despite the risks inherent in their profession. He is played by Roy Marsden.
The Sandbaggers is a British spy thriller television series created by Ian Mackintosh, about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War.Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV from 1978 to 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of espionage on the personal and professional lives of British intelligence officers and their American colleagues.
ITV Adaptations starring Roy Marsden Death of an Expert Witness (1983): Dalgliesh, assisted by Massingham (played by John Vine ), leads the hunt for an elusive strangler in The Fens . Shroud for a Nightingale (1984): Dalgliesh and Massingham (Vine) become entangled in a deadly murder hunt inside a training home for nurses.
Unnatural Causes is a 1993 television film adaptation of the 1967 detective novel of the same name by P. D. James written by Peter Buckman.Differing in several details from the original plot, it stars Roy Marsden as Commander Adam Dalgliesh and is part of the Dalgleish series of television films.
The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts his own air transport business. Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for one series of nine episodes broadcast in January and February 1982, with a repeat in the summer of 1984.
It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh, Joss Ackland as the surgeon, Stephen Courtney-Briggs, Sheila Allen as Mary Taylor and Eleanor David as Jo Fallon. Another adaptation in 2021 starred Bertie Carvel as part of the series Dalgliesh. [2] It was produced by New Pictures and released on Acorn TV. [3]
Roy Marsden played Adam Dalgliesh. According to James in conversation with Bill Link on 3 May 2001 at the Writer's Guild Theatre, Los Angeles, Marsden "is not my idea of Dalgliesh, but I would be very surprised if he were."