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Fred Thursday is a veteran Detective Inspector and Second World War veteran portrayed by Roger Allam. Thursday served in the North African and Italian Campaigns during the war as a soldier in the British Expeditionary Force after becoming a policeman in London in December 1938. Thursday married his wife, Win, in November 1941, with whom he has ...
Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is a British actor who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio.. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables, First Officer Douglas Richardson in the award-winning radio series Cabin Pressure, and DCI Fred Thursday in the TV series Endeavour.
Endeavour is a British television detective drama series on ITV.It is a prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse series. Shaun Evans portrays the young Endeavour Morse beginning his career as a detective constable, and later as a detective sergeant, with the Oxford City Police CID.
Detective Inspector Fred Thursday – Russell Lewis, based on the characters created by Colin Dexter (played by Roger Allam in Endeavour) Lieutenant Moe Tilden – James Mangold (played by Robert De Niro in Cop Land) Detective Inspector Anna Travis – Lynda La Plante (played by Kelly Reilly in Above Suspicion)
Strange is also proud of the good works that he and his lodge do for charity, as he tells Joan Thursday in the eighth series. Strange’s wife, Joan, is the daughter of his and Morse’s first CID guv, DCI Fred Thursday GM, and is a woman for whom Morse had silently pined for years. In 1972, Thursday sends the newly married couple to Kidlington ...
Charlie Hulme , a British detective inspector, is found murdered in a locked panic room on the Caribbean island of Saint Marie owned by the Lavenders, Sarah (Coralie Audret) and James (Rupert Graves). Commissioner Selwyn Patterson demands that a UK officer investigate Charlie's death, so deadpan DI Richard Poole unwillingly flies out to Saint ...
Mayo is a British television detective fiction-comedy series, adapted from the Gil Mayo Mysteries series books by Marjorie Eccles, first broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 2006. [1] The eight-part series, produced by BBC Birmingham , starred Alistair McGowan as the titular character, alongside Jessica Oyelowo , Huw Rhys and Louise Brealey .
The second series sees Cole make it on to the day shift, and the introduction of Detective Inspector Bing (Mark Lewis Jones). His character is honest, open and amusing, and signals a stark contrast between the two series. He creates a more positive impression, and allows the show to move in a different direction.