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Dalgliesh is a British crime drama television series, based on the Adam Dalgliesh novels by PD James. Bertie Carvel stars as the title character , an enigmatic detective–poet. The six-part series premiered on Acorn TV on 1 November 2021 in the United States followed by a Channel 5 premiere on 4 November in the United Kingdom.
Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray .
A television version of A Certain Justice was produced for Britain's ITV network in 1998 as a three-episode mini-series [9] and another was made in 2023 for Channel 5 as the second in its Dalgliesh series. [10] A one and a half hour BBC radio drama written by Neville Teller was produced in 2005 and repeated thereafter.
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).
During the 1980s and 1990s, many of James's mystery novels were adapted for television by Anglia Television for the ITV network in the UK. These productions have been broadcast in other countries, including the US on the PBS network. Roy Marsden played Adam Dalgliesh. According to James in conversation with Bill Link on 3 May 2001 at the Writer ...
In 2024, Acorn TV released Season 3 of Dalgliesh starring Bertie Carvel as the poet-detective. Carvel's performance has been well received by legacy [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and online [ 8 ] [ 9 ] media, with Barbara Ellen describing his Season 3 performance in The Observer (December 22, 2024) as "meticulously subtle, dignified and steeped in ...
A television version of the novel was produced for Britain's ITV network in 1985. It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh, John Vine as Inspector John Massingham (instead of Detective Sergeant Martin), Phyllis Calvert as Eleanor Maxie, Rupert Frazer as Stephen Maxie, Mel Martin as Deborah Riscoe, Julian Glover as Felix Hearne, and Kim Thomson ...
Adam Dalgliesh, by P. D. James; Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel, Dalziel and Pascoe by Reginald Hill; Lieutenant Cedric Daniels, The Wire; Shabor Dasgupta, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay; Lucas Davenport, by John Sandford; Peter Decker, by Faye Kellerman; Judge Dee, by Robert van Gulik; Alex Delaware, by Jonathan Kellerman; Harry Devlin, by ...