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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 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.
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.
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.
DCI Roy Slater (Jim Broadbent in Only Fools and Horses and Calum MacNab in Rock & Chips) appeared in three episodes – May The Force Be With You, To Hull and Back, and The Class of '62. A much-reviled ex-schoolmate of Del's, Slater was a corrupt policeman and (as revealed in The Class of '62 ) the ex-husband of Raquel Turner .
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.
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Roy Marsden – Norman Tebbit, former cabinet minister; Nicholas Rowe – Malcolm Rifkind, Scotland Secretary; Michael Maloney – John Major, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Roger Allam – John Wakeham, Energy Secretary (Allam would go on to have a role in The Iron Lady, a big screen portrayal of Thatcher's terms in office)