David Calder

David Ian Calder (born 1 August 1946) is an English actor. His film and television credits include the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Crown Court, The Professionals, Enemy at the Door, Minder, Mitch, Bergerac, The New Statesman, Between the Lines, Bramwell, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Heartbeat, Sleepers, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Hustle, Waking the Dead, Wallis & Edward, A Touch of Frost, Cold Blood, Burn Up, Lewis, Houdini, United, and The Last Front.

Life and career Calder was born 1 August 1946 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, In 1989, he appeared in the adaptation of the David Lodge novel Nice Work. From 2005–06, he took on the role of PC George Dixon in the radio adaptation of the BBC's long running television series Dixon of Dock Green.

Calder's other television credits include Crown Court, Boys from the Blackstuff, He also appeared as Harold Hardman, the Manchester United chairman at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, in the TV drama United, aired by the BBC in April 2011. In 2013, he played Mr Reid in The Wrong Mans.

Calder appeared as Sir Robert King in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. His other film appearances include Moonlighting (1982),

In 1979, Calder appeared in a public information film as a crime prevention officer, asking people to consider how they would get into their own home if they lost their keys. The PIF, which was used to encourage people to make their homes secure, and to contact their crime prevention officer for advice, ran until at least 1985. In February 2010, Calder played Stuart Bell in the television film On Expenses.

In October 2016, Calder played Gus, in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner at the Hampstead Theatre.

In October 2016, Calder appeared as Mr Bruff in the BBC mini-series The Moonstone and from October 2017 in the title role of Julius Caesar at the new Bridge Theatre. This production was broadcast by National Theatre Live in March 2018.

Also in 2018, Calder played a closeted gay man suffering from dementia on BBC's Call the Midwife.

In 2024, Calder played Father Michael in the World War I television film The Last Front.

Filmography + Film Year Title Role Notes1970 J.C. 1978 Superman 3rd Crewman (Superman's 1st Night)1979 All the Fun of the Fair Pat Collins 1982 Moonlighting Supermarket Manager 1986 Defence of the Realm Harry Champion 1991 American Friends Pollitt 1996 Hollow Reed Martin's Lawyer 1997 FairyTale: A True Story Harold Snelling 1999 Sir Robert King 2000 Charles 2001 Mr In-Between Tattooed Man 2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Bishop of Grasse Goya's Ghosts Monk 1 2008 Roger Wilson 2010 National Theatre Live: Hamlet Polonius 2011 United Harold Hardman 2013 Rush Louis Stanley 2015 Queen of the Desert Hugh Bell Leo Fairchild 2017 Terry Perkins 2018 National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar Caesar 2024 The Last Front Father Michael

+ Television Year Title Role Notes ITV Playhouse John Marriott Casting the Runes Enemy at the Door Hoffman Episode: "No Quarter Given" June-July 1981 Get_Lost! Det Sgt Tomlin Four episodes Wynne and Penkovsky Greville Wynne Bergerac Sir Clive Hamer Episode: "SPARTA" 1987 Star Cops Nathan Spring Series regular Douglas Episode: "Unreported Incident" Sleepers Victor Chekhov Screen One Chubb Episode: "A Question of Attribution" Screen Two Abbé de L'Epée Episode: "The Count of Solar" Friday on My Mind Wing Commander Donahue Covington Cross Abbott Episode: "The Persecution" The New Statesman Le Cul Episode: "Heil and Farewell" Robert Legge Episode: "Death at the Bar" Between the Lines Leavis Episode: "The End User" (2 parts)22 May 1995BramwellDr. Robert BramwellMajor character in series 1, 2, and 3 Cracker Michael Harvey Episode: "Brotherly Love" (3 parts) Dalziel and Pascoe James Marsham Episode: "Cunning Old Fox" Heartbeat Saul Arkwright Episode: "The Shoot" Spooks Sergei Lermov Episode: "The Rose Bed Memoirs" Midsomer Murders George Hamilton Episode: "Birds of Prey" Richard Martin Episode: "A Traitor to Memory" Hustle Victor Maher Episode: "Cops and Robbers" Waking the Dead Commander Bill Drake Episode: "Cold Fusion" Trial & Retribution William Thorpe Episode: "The Lovers" Kenneth Shaw Episode: "Endangered Species" Heartbeat DI Ludlow Episode: "Night Mail" New Tricks Sid Lestade Episode: "Meat is Murder" Casualty Roy Parks Episode: "Into the Fog" Agatha Christie's Marple Dermot Episode: “The Blue Geranium” Lewis Andrew Lipton Episode: "The Indelible Stain" Mr Selfridge King Edward VII Episode: "Episode 10" Father Brown Sir Aaron Armstrong Episode: "The Three Tools of Death" DCI Banks Jack Barber Episode: "Piece of My Heart" Casualty Phillip Perry Episode: "A Life Less Lived" Vera Frank McAffee Episode: "The Sea Glass" Inside No. 9 Percy Episode: "Once Removed" Call the Midwife Donald Episode: "Episode 8" 2021 Time John Cobden 3 episodes 2021 The Trick Sir David King TV film 2017-2022 Motherland Geoff 3 episodes 2024 Doctors Lord Rodney Carleton 2 episodes

+ Podcast series Date Title Role Notes 2019-2020 The Lovecraft Investigations Henry Akeley 11 episodes (Radio 4) 2023 The Victory of Joan of Arc Fontaine Podcast series