Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Robot of Sherwood

Robin Hood (Tom Riley) is just as real
as the Doctor is...
One episode (Robot of Sherwood)
First broadcast Sep 6 2014
Average audience for story: 7.28m + 1.38m iPlayer = 8.66m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Quayle) Born Jan 19 1957
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mr Garrett in Torchwood: Random Shoes (2006)
Played: Quayle in Robot of Sherwood (2014)
Career highlights
Roger's earliest screen credit is in the sitcom The Young Ones (1982), followed by The Nation's Health (1983), Brazil (1985), Dreamchild (1985), Prospects (1986), Haunted Honeymoon (1986), Jack the Ripper (1988), Grange Hill (1990), Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990), King Ralph (1991), Shadowlands (1993), The Madness of King George (1994), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Ivanhoe (1997), Merlin (1998), A Knight's Tale (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), What a Girl Wants (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), The Color of Magic (2008), The Tudors (2009), The Musketeers (2014), Grace of Monaco (2014), Mr Turner (2014), Coronation Street (2014-15), The Lobster (2015), Father Brown (2016), Marley's Ghosts (2016), Quacks (2017), Crooked House (2017), The Show (2020) and The Other Me (2022). He also regularly played Mace Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2014-16).
Facts
Roger was a singer with the English National Opera between 1979-81. In 2003, he graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the University of East London, and in 2015 was awarded a PhD in creative and critical writing by the University of East Anglia. Here he is on Twitter.

Tim Baggaley (Knight) Born 1965
Career highlights
Tim has also appeared in Strange (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), I'm Spazticus (2012), Ibiza Undead (2016) and Friday Night Dinner (2020).
Facts
In 2001, Tim was in a serious motorbike accident and his left collarbone was shattered, and his left arm had to be amputated. In 2003, he became the first patient in the world to have an artificial clavicle made of metal fitted. He now uses a prosthetic arm. Tim has always been active, being an avid sportsman and ballroom dancer, as well as a graphic artist.

Sabrina Bartlett (Quayle's ward [Marian]) Born Sep 12 1991
Career highlights
Debuted in Suspects (2014), then The Passing Bells (2014), Poldark (2015), Da Vinci's Demons (2015), Game of Thrones (2016), Versailles (2017), Knightfall (2017-18), Victoria (2019), Bridgerton (2020) and The Larkins (2021, as Mariette).
Facts
Sabrina also appears in Tom Odell's video for the song If You Wanna Love Somebody. Here she is on Twitter.

David Benson (Herald) Born Jan 11 1962
Career highlights
David's other screen acting credits include Goodnight Sweetheart (1998-99, playing Noel Coward), Little Britain (2005), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Up Pompeii (2019).
Facts
At the age of 13, David was the winner of a Jackanory Young Writers competition when he wrote The Rag and Bone Man, which was read on the programme by Carry On star Kenneth Williams (the tapes have since been wiped, but luckily David managed to record the audio!). As an adult David toured with the one-man show Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams (1996). David is something of an authority on both Williams and Noel Coward. Here's David on Twitter.

Trevor Cooper (Friar Tuck) Born Sep 21 1953
Doctor Who credits
Played: Takis in Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
Played: Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood (2014)
Career highlights
Trevor's CV begins with Fatal Spring (1980), then Baal (1982), Moonlighting (1982), Terry and June (1985), Mr Pye (1986), The Singing Detective (1986), Star Cops (1987), London's Burning (1988), Mother Love (1989), Kinsey (1991), Love Hurts (1992), Wuthering Heights (1992), Framed (1992), Gallowglass (1993), KYTV (1993), Ivanhoe (1997), Underworld (1997), Duck Patrol (1998), Gangs of New York (2002), Trevor's World of Sport (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Chromophobia (2005), Stan (2006), The Ruby in the Smoke (2006), Murphy's Law (2007), George Gently (2009), Spooks (2010), Vikings (2013), Wizards vs Aliens (2014), The Wrong Mans (2014), Inside No 9 (2015), Ballot Monkeys (2015), Downtown Abbey (2015), Boomers (2016), Wolfblood (2017), Crooked House (2017), The Windsors (2018), Hetty Feather (2019) and Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022). Regular roles include Sergeant Woolf in Call the Midwife (2017-20) and Len Clifton in This Country (2017-20).
Facts
Trevor originally studied law and graduated with a Masters degree, after which he lectured in law for two years before going into acting. His niece is Daisy May Cooper, his nephew is Charlie Cooper and his brother Paul Cooper (of This Country fame). Here he is, on Twitter!
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Trevor here.

Richard Elfyn (Voice of the Knights) Born 1961
Career highlights
Debuted on screen in Bowen A'i Bartner (1985), followed byPenyberth (1985), Moonacre (1994), Satellite City (1996), Hafod Haidd (1998-99), The Dark (2005), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2005), Belonging (2006), The History of Mr Polly (2007), Young Dracula (2008), Alys (2012), Emmerdale (2013), Stella (2013-15), Hinterland (2015), Living a Lie (2016-17), The Crown (2017), Keeping Faith (2017), 35 Diwrnod (2020), The Pact (2021) and Jungle Cry (2022). Richard also provided the Welsh language voiceovers for children's series such as Spongebob Squarepants, Ben 10 and Fireman Sam.

Rusty Goffe (Little John) Born Oct 30 1948
Career highlights
Rusty made his TV debut in The Dave Allen Show in 1968, after which he appeared in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, as an Oompa-Loompa), Crackerjack (1972), Look and Read: The King's Dragon (1977), Star Wars (1977, as a Jawa), Hazell (1978), 3-2-1 (1978), The Little and Large Show (1978), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), The Paul Squire Show (1981), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1982), Are You Being Served? (1981/83), 'Allo 'Allo (1985), Willow (1988), Through the Dragon's Eye (1989), The Brian Conley Show (1994), The League of Gentlemen (2000/02), Dwarves in Showbiz (2002), Cold Feet (2003), Mirrormask (2005), Fred Claus (2007), Bear Behaving Badly (2009), Borgia (2014) and Spidarlings (2015). He has also appeared in four Harry Potter films as a goblin (2001-11) and played Goober the purple gremlin butler in 20 episodes of Stupid! (2004-05). Between 1995-99 he was also the presenter on L!ve TV's Britain's Bounciest Weather, jumping up and down on a trampoline as he forecast the weather for the weekend.
Facts
In 2007, 4ft 2in Rusty played the lead role in the short film A Kitten for Hitler, directed by Ken Russell, which was made with the intention of being as universally offensive as possible (Rusty plays a Jewish boy with a swastika-shaped birthmark on his stomach who is killed by Hitler, and his skin is used to make a bedside lampshade. After the war the lampshade is returned to the boy's mother as a memento. When she touches it, the lamp lights up and the swastika transforms into a Star of David. Do you think it's offensive enough?). In 1997, Rusty appeared in the video for Monaco's Top 20 single What Do You Want from Me?, and in 1999 played an alien in the video for Geri Halliwell's chart-topping Lift Me Up. Here he is on Twitter.

Ian Hallard (Alan-a-Dale) Born Nov 9 1974
Doctor Who credits
Played: Richard Martin in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Played: Alan-a-Dale in Robot of Sherwood (2014)
Career highlights
Ian's first screen acting credit was actually an appearance in the specially-filmed extra Global Conspiracy? on the 2004 DVD for The Green Death (written by and starring Mark Gatiss). Further work includes Agatha Christie's Marple (2006), Ideal (2006), Suburban Shootout (2006), Where the Heart Is (2005-06), The Worst Journey in the World (2007, written by and starring Mark Gatiss), Crooked House (2008, written by and starring Mark Gatiss), The First Men in the Moon (2010, written by and starring Mark Gatiss), Hustle (2011), Sherlock (2012, starring Mark Gatiss), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2010/13, written by Mark Gatiss), Doctors (2011/13/15), The Dark Room (2015), The Crown (2017), Martin's Close (2019, written by Mark Gatiss), Adventurous (2021) and Endeavour (2021). Ian also worked as a script associate on Agatha Christie's Poirot (2008-10) and co-wrote the screenplay for The Big Four in 2013 (with Mark Gatiss).
Facts
Ian's husband is actor and prolific Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss. Here's Ian on Twitter.

Adam Jones (Walter)
Career highlights
Adam's other work includes playing Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the Olympics Opening Ceremony in London in 2012. He has also performed in many stage musicals, often for Cameron Mackintosh, including Les Miserables. He's also appeared in music videos for Miike Snow (Genghis Khan and My Trigger).

Joseph Kennedy (Will Scarlet) Born 1981
Career highlights
Joseph debuted in the title role in the TV movie Bobby Moore (2006), after which he found work in Midsomer Murders (2006), Where the Heart Is (2006), Housewife, 49 (2006), Robin Hood (2007), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010), Women in Love (2011), The Grind (2012), Rev (2014), Gozo (2015), The Last Post (2017) and Back to Life (2021).
Facts
Joseph, whose father is actor John Bowe, is also musical, having been a member of the collectives Captive State, Solomon Grey, and Bess.

David Langham (Guard) Born Jul 24 1970
Career highlights
David's other work includes White Teeth (2002), Keen Eddie (2004), Banana (2015), The Alienist (2018), Britannia (2019), His Dark Materials (2019-20), A Discovery of Witches (2021), Pennyworth (2020) and Lord of Misrule (2022).
Facts
David on Twitter.

Ben Miller (Sheriff of Nottingham) Born Feb 24 1966
Career highlights
Actor and comedian Ben debuted in Murder Most Horrid in 1991, after which he appeared in French and Saunders (1993), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993), Paul Merton: The Series (1993), Casualty (1995), Sardines (1995), Plunkett and Macleane (1999), Cinderella (2000), The Blind Date (2000), The Parole Officer (2001), Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), The Book Group (2002), Johnny English (2003), Doc Martin (2004/05), Popetown (2006), Saxondale (2006), Razzle Dazzle (2007), 4.3.2.1. (2010), Episodes (2011), This is Jinsy (2014), The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (2014), Horrible Histories (2015), Asylum (2015), Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015), Ballot Monkeys (2015), I Want My Wife Back (2016), Paddington 2 (2017), Upstart Crow (2018), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), Sticks and Stones (2019), Bridgerton (2020), Off the Rails (2021) and Professor T (2021-22). Ben has also had a number of recurring roles: various characters in The Armstrong and Miller Show (1997-2001 & 2007-10, which he also wrote for and produced), Howard Steel in The Worst Week of My Life (2004-06), Jonathan Pope in Moving Wallpaper (2008-09), James Lester in Primeval (2007-11) and Richard Poole in Death in Paradise (2011-14/21). He also directed and script edited Saxondale.
Awards
2010: BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series (The Armstrong and Miller Show) - shared with production team
Facts
Ben's long-time comedy partner is Alexander Armstrong (aka the voice of Mr Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as having a role in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe). Since 2007 he has been the voice of Monkey in TV adverts for PG Tips. Ben's first wife was actress Belinda Stewart-Wilson, perhaps best known as Polly McKenzie in The Inbetweeners (2008-10) and its two film spin-offs. His second wife Jessica Parker is the daughter of musician Alan Parker (who played the guitar riff on David Bowie's Rebel Rebel). Ben abandoned a PhD in solid state physics at Cambridge University in 1992 (his thesis was on novel quantum effects in quasi-zero dimensional mesoscopic electrical systems!). In the late 1980s he dated actress Rachel Weisz. Here's Ben on Twitter.

Tom Riley (Robin Hood) Born Apr 5 1981
Career highlights
Tom's first screen credit was A Few Days in September (2006), followed by Casualty 1906/07 (2006-08), I Want Candy (2007), Lewis (2008), Lost in Austen (2008), Happy Ever Afters (2009), St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010), Bedlam (2011), Inside No.9 (2015), Kill Your Friends (2015), Starfish (2016), Pushing Dead (2016), The Collection (2016), Ill Behaviour (2017), Ghost Light (2018), Dark Heart (2018), The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022) and The Nevers (2021-22). He also played Lawrence Shepherd in Monroe (2011-12) and Leonardo Da Vinci in Da Vinci's Demons (2013-15, which he also co-produced).
Awards
2014: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor (Da Vinci's Demons)
Facts
Tom is married to American actress Lizzy Caplan. Here's Tom on Twitter.

CREW

Mark Gatiss (writer) Born Oct 17 1966 Click here for Mark Gatiss's entry on The Unquiet Dead

Paul Murphy (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Robot of Sherwood (2014), The Caretaker (2014)
Career highlights
Paul has also directed episodes of Brookside (2002), Grange Hill (2003-05), Trexx and Flipside (2008), The Case (2011), Waterloo Road (2012), Trollied (2012-18), Wizards vs Aliens (2013), Hollyoaks (2014), Casualty (2006-14, which he has also produced), Death in Paradise (2015), Galavant (2016), Hospital People (2017), Home from Home (2018), Cuckoo (2016-18), American Housewife (2018-20), Red Election (2021) and North Sea Connection (2022). Paul has also produced for series including Red Election and North Sea Connection.

Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

David P Davis (script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Robot of Sherwood, Listen, Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven, Last Christmas, The Zygon Inversion, The Husbands of River Song (2014-15)
Career highlights
David has also edited scripts for Merlin (2010), Casualty (2011-14) and Electric Dreams (2017), as well as being a researcher on Holby City (2009-10). He wrote an episode of Casualty in 2012, and was an executive producer on Industry (2020-22).
Facts
Here's David on Twitter.

Richard Cookson (script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Night of the Doctor (2013), An Adventure in Space and Time (2013), The Day of the Doctor (2013), The Last Day (2013), Robot of Sherwood (2014), Time Heist (2014), Flatline (2014)
Wrote: Strax's cinema introduction to The Day of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)
Career highlights
Richard began as a production assistant on biographical dramas such as The Curse of Steptoe (2008), Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (2008) and Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008), graduating to script doctoring work on productions such as Criminal Justice (2009), Survivors (2010), Five Daughters (2010), The Fades (2011), Ripper Street (2012-13), Peaky Blinders (2013), Grantchester (2016-17) and Man in an Orange Suit (2018). He later became producer of Grantchester (2019-21), and even wrote a couple of episodes. 
Facts
Between 2012-13, Richard was also responsible for all of Doctor Who's spin-off fictional content through BBC Books, Penguin Books, IDW Comics, Immediate Media, Big Finish and Audio Go.

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