The Unquiet Dead

The undead Mrs Peace (Jennifer Hill)

One episode (The Unquiet Dead)
First broadcast Apr 9 2005
Audience for story: 8.86m

REGULAR CAST

Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor) Born Feb 16 1964 Click here for Christopher Eccleston's entry on Rose

Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose

GUEST CAST

Simon Callow (Charles Dickens) Born Jun 15 1949
Doctor Who credits
Played: Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead (2005), The Wedding of River Song (2011)
Played: Voice of Tree Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift (2009)
Career highlights
Prolific stage and screen actor Simon made his debut in an episode of the Carry On Laughing! TV series in 1975, but while his scenes were cut out, his name remained on the credits at the end. His first proper appearance was in Get Some In! (1975), followed by Victorian Scandals (1976), Instant Enlightenment Including VAT (1980), The Dybbuk (1980), Amadeus (1984), Scarecrow and Mrs King (1984), The Good Father (1985), Dead Head (1986), David Copperfield (1986), Maurice (1987), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Little Napoleons (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), England, My England (1995), The Woman in White (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Thunderpants (2002), Bright Young Things (2003), Angels in America (2003), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Rome (2005), Chemical Wedding (2008), Lewis (2009), Ice (2011), Love's Kitchen (2011), This is Jinsy (2011), Plebs (2014), Outlander (2015-16), Golden Years (2016), Hampstead (2017), Victoria and Abdul (2017), The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017), The Rebel (2016-17), Death in Paradise (2018), A Christmas Carol (2018), The Dead Room (2018) and The Hollow (2020). He may also be remembered for playing Tom Chance in sitcom Chance in a Million (1984-86). Simon also appeared as a critic in the reality series Popstar to Operastar in 2011.

Awards

1992: Olivier Award for Best Director of a Musical (Carmen Jones)

1999: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

Facts
Simon is something of an authority on Charles Dickens, having played him numerous times on stage and screen, and has written books on the author too. He has also written books on Charles Laughton, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Richard Wagner and Orson Welles, and the art of acting. Here's his Twitter feed.

Wayne Cater (Stage manager) Born 1971
Career highlights
Wayne debuted in Stalag Luft (1993), after which he appeared in Topsy-Turvy (1999), Warriors (1999), Very Annie Mary (2001), Holby City (2009), Gavin and Stacey (2009), Tracy Beaker Returns (2011), Being Human (2013), Doctors (2010/13/16), Friday Night Dinner (2016), Parch (2016-18), The Witcher (2019) and Brassic (2020). He also regularly played George the butcher in Stella (2013-16).
Facts
Here's his Twitter account.

Alan David (Gabriel Sneed) Born Dec 29 1941*
Career highlights
Alan debuted in Shakespeare or Bust (1973), followed by Coronation Street (1973), Emmerdale Farm (1974), The Inheritors (1974), The Sweeney (1976), Minder (1980), Shoestring (1979-80), Bergerac (1981), Bulman (1985), Remington Steele (1986), The Twilight Zone (1986), How to Be Cool (1988), Sleepers (1991), Gone to the Dogs (1991), Virtual Murder (1992), Lovejoy (1993), Headhunters (1994), Honey for Tea (1994), The Brittas Empire (1996), The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1996), The Thin Blue Line (1996), A Perfect State (1997), Goodnight Sweetheart (1999), Dead Gorgeous (2002), The Last Detective (2004), Wimbledon (2004), Empire (2005), EastEnders (2005), To the Manor Born (2007), The Oxford Murders (2008), Land Girls (2011), Still Open All Hours (2014/18), Benidorm (2015), The Hollow Crown (2016), Silent Witness (2018), Les Miserables (2019) and The Tuckers (2020). Regular roles have included Maurice "Granny" Taylor in Sam (1974-75), Harry in The Squirrels (1974-77), Tancred Taylour in Foxy Lady (1982-84), Bernie in Making Out (1989-91), Mr Rogers in Chris Cross (1993-95) and Llewellyn in The Green Green Grass (2005-09).
Facts
Alan also acts as a match day announcer for London Welsh rugby club. * Some reports say he was born in 1947.

Jennifer Hill (Mrs Peace) 1936 to 2023
Career highlights
Debuted in The Franchise Affair (1962), followed by roles in Carry On Jack (1963), Softly Softly (1968), Crossroads (1973-74), Within These Walls (1975), A Bunch of Fives (1977-78), Grange Hill (1979), The Basil Brush Show (1979-80), Tenko (1981), Octopussy (1983), The Magnificent Evans (1984), Leaving (1985), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1987-88), The Knock (1997), Human Traffic (1999), Mine All Mine (2004), The Bill (2005) and High Hopes (2006).

Facts

In 2023, it was revealed that Jennifer had a child with British actor David Jason. Their daughter Abi Harris was born in 1970 when the two were in a relationship while working together on stage in London, but following a paternity test it was discovered that he was Abi's father. Father and daughter were united for the first time after five decades and began to forge a new relationship.

Eve Myles (Gwyneth) Born Jul 26 1978
Doctor Who credits
Played: Gwyneth in The Unquiet Dead (2005)
Played: Gwen Cooper in Torchwood Series 1-4 (2006-11), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008)

Career highlights

Debuting in the 1999 TV series Hang the DJ, Eve's career has seen her take roles in Nuts and Bolts (2000), Score (2001), Tales from the Pleasure Beach (2001), EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003), Colditz (2005), Merlin (2008), Little Dorrit (2008), Framed (2009), A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009), Baker Boys (2011), Frankie (2013), You, Me & Them (2013), Broadchurch (2015), You, Me & Them (2013-15), Victoria (2016), A Very English Scandal (2018), Cold Feet (2019) and We Hunt Together (2020). She also played Ceri in 85 episodes of the Welsh drama Belonging (2000-09), and Faith Howells in Keeping Faith (2017-20).

Awards

2007: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress (Torchwood)

2018: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress (Keeping Faith)
Facts
Eve's husband is actor Bradley Freegard. When she was young she practised boxing. Here she is on Twitter.

Meic Povey (Coachman) Nov 28 1950 to Dec 5 2017 (cancer)
Career highlights
Meic's acting CV stems back to 1972's The Regiment, after which he appeared in The Inheritors (1974), Border Country (1979), Gawain and the Green Knight (1991), The Jazz Detective (1992), Monk Dawson (1998), Pobol y Cwm (2004), Sebastian (2004) and Scratching (2006). He also had a recurring role as DC Taff Jones in Minder (1982-89) and Supt Jack Bevan in A Mind to Kill (1994-97). Meic was also a writer for screen and stage, having penned for Glas Y Dorlan (1977-78), Taff Acre (1981), Iechyd Da (1997), A Mind to Kill (1997) and Living a Lie (2016-17), and being co-creator of the Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm in 1974.

Huw Rhys (Redpath) Born 1981
Career highlights
Welsh actor Huw debuted in Diwrnod Hollol Mindblowing Heddiw in 2000, after which he appeared in Spooks (2004), Con Passionate (2005), Life Begins (2004-05), Belonging (2006), Mayo (2006), The Palace (2008), Shameless (2010), Case Sensitive (2011), Stella (2014), 35 Diwrnod (2015) and Darren Drws Nesa (2017-18).

Zoe Thorne (The Gelth) Born 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Gelth in The Unquiet Dead (2005)
Played: Voice of the Toclafane in The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords (2007)
Career highlights
Debuted in New Year's Day (2000), followed by Casualty (2001), Doctors (2003), Kerching! (2004), The Bill (2005), An American Haunting (2005), Miles Away (2009), Hamlet (2009), War Horse (2014) and three episodes of Holby City (2004/07/15).
Facts
Here's Zoe on Twitter.

CREW

Mark Gatiss (writer) Born Oct 17 1966
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Unquiet Dead (2005), The Idiot's Lantern (2006), Victory of the Daleks (2010), Night Terrors (2011), Cold War (2013), The Crimson Horror (2013), Robot of Sherwood (2014), Sleep No More (2015), Empress of Mars (2017)
Played: Professor Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment (2007)
Played: Voice of Danny Boy in Victory of the Daleks (2010, uncredited), A Good Man Goes to War (2011, uncredited)
Played: Gantok in The Wedding of River Song (2011, as Rondo Haxton)

Played: The Captain in Twice Upon a Time (2017)
Career highlights
The frighteningly prolific and multi-talented Mark began his acting career in Harry (1993), after which he appeared in The Dwelling Place (1994), In the Red (1998), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000), Barbara (2000), Spaced (2001), Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), Bright Young Things (2003), Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004), Agatha Christie's Marple (2004), The Quatermass Experiment (2005), Funland (2005), Starter for 10 (2006), Fear of Fanny (2006), Jekyll (2007), Consenting Adults (2007), Sense and Sensibility (2008), Clone (2008), Crooked House (2008), Psychoville (2009), The First Men in the Moon (2010), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), Being Human (2012), Horrible Histories (2012), Psychobitches (2013), Mapp & Lucia (2014), Wolf Hall (2015), Games of Thrones (2014-17), Dad's Army (2016), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016), Taboo (2017), Gunpowder (2017), Christopher Robin (2018), Sally4Ever (2018), Good Omens (2019) and Dracula (2020). He also regularly played Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock (2010-17) and had a recurring role as Glenn Bulb in Nighty Night (2004-05), but will forever be known as a member of the League of Gentlemen comedy team, who had four series between 1999-2017, as well as the film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005).
Mark is also a prolific writer, having written various Doctor Who novels and audio adventures since the 1990s, as well as spin-off video productions such as The Zero Imperative (1994) and Unnatural Selection (1996). For the screen he has written Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2001), The League of Gentlemen (1999-2002), The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), Nighty Night (2004-05), Crooked House (2008), A History of Horror (2010), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2008/10/13), An Adventure in Space and Time (2013), The Tractate Middoth (2013), Sherlock (2010-17), Queers (2017), The Dead Room (2018), Martin's Close (2019) and Dracula (2020). He has also been producer on a number of these productions, and also directed The Tractate Middoth, The Dead Room, Martin's Close, and the whole series of Queers. Mark acted as script editor on the sketch series Little Britain (2003).
Awards
1997: Perrier Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (as The League of Gentlemen)
2000: BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series (The League of Gentlemen)

2000: Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment (The League of Gentlemen)

2011: Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama Series (Sherlock) - shared with Steven Moffat
2011: BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series (Sherlock) - shared with Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue and Beryl Vertue

2016: Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie (Sherlock) - shared with Steven Moffat, Beryl Vertue, Sue Vertue and Rebecca Eaton

2016: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Three Days in the Country)
Facts
Mark is married to the actor Ian Hallard, who appeared in the Doctor Who story Robot of Sherwood (2014). In 1999, Mark played a new incarnation of the Doctor in the sketch The Web of Caves, filmed for Doctor Who Night on BBC2 (this can be seen on the Doctor Who: The Beginning DVD collection). He has also used the pseudonym Sam Kisgart when writing for Doctor Who Magazine, when playing the Master in Big Finish audios, and for his cameo in Psychoville (it's an anagram of his name). Mark has also published a trilogy of books featuring the detective Lucifer Box - The Vesuvius Club (2004), The Devil in Amber (2006) and Black Butterfly (2008). Mark is on Twitter.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Mark here.

Euros Lyn (director) Born Mar 1971 Click here for Euros Lyn's entry on The End of the World

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose

Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose

Helen Raynor (script editor) Born Mar 27 1972
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Unquiet Dead, Dalek, The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances, Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion, The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday, Blink, Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead, Midnight (2005-08)
Wrote: Torchwood: Ghost Machine (2006), Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of the Daleks (2007), Torchwood: To the Last Man (2008), The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky (2008)
Career highlights
Helen started out as a script editor on the daytime soap Doctors (2002-03) before moving on to Doctor Who. She also script edited The Chatterley Affair in 2006. As a writer, Helen has written for Brief Encounters (2006), Primeval (2011), Baker Boys (2011, which she also co-created), Mr Selfridge (2015-16) and Call the Midwife (2020). She also became producer of Mr Selfridge in 2016. She now writes for the stage.

Facts

Her partner is the Welsh playwright Gary Owen.