About Tom Mannion
Born 1901. Tom Mannion was a British actor and television actor.
Tom Mannion is a Scottish actor. He was trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
His television credits include Brookside, Up the Garden Path, The Bill, Boon, Cadfael, Doctor Finlay, Doctors, Eleventh Hour, Holby City, Roman Mysteries, Hustle, Life on Mars, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Red Cap, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Spatz, Taggart, The Agatha Christie Hour, The Chief, The Royal, and Wycliffe. He has recently been in the BBC TV series Lip Service, Moving On and Inside Men. In 2016, he starred in Mr Selfridge.
His film credits include Brothers, Beyond the Sea, Iris, Beautiful Creatures and Croupier as Detective Inspector Ross.
In 2011–12, he went on tour throughout the UK, playing Inspector Goole, in Stephen Daldry's production of An Inspector Calls.
In December 2012 he joined the cast of Emmerdale as horse trainer Steve Harland. He made his final appearance in the soap on 11 September 2013.
Filmography That Sinking Feeling (1979) – The Doctor The Agatha Christie Hour (1982) – Herbert Return of the Jedi (1983) – Star Destroyer Captain #2 Croupier (1998) – Ross Beautiful Creatures (2000) – Brian McMinn Iris (2001) – Neurologist Brothers (2004) – Miles Beyond the Sea (2004) – Movie Set Reporter Centurion (2010) – General Tesio F (2010) – Gary Waterboys (2016) – James The Victim 2019
Selected theatre Year Title Role Company Director | Notes 1988 American Bagpipes Patrick Nauldie Royal Exchange, Manchester Casper Wrede World premiere of a play by Iain Heggie 1996 The Philadelphia Story Dexter Haven Royal Exchange, Manchester Josephine Abady 1996 Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac Communicado, with Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Gerry Mulgrew and Andy Farrell translation by Edwin Morgan 1998 An Experiment with an Air Pump Thomas Armstrong Royal Exchange, Manchester Matthew Lloyd World premiere of a play by Shelagh Stephenson 2005 Antony and Cleopatra Antony Royal Exchange, Manchester Braham Murray
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