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The Indelible Stain
Season 6, Episode 4
A visiting American academic delivers a controversial speech, with many audience members worried his ideas could be used to target ethnic minorities. So when he is found hanged the next morning and Dr Hobson quickly discounts suicide, Lewis and Hathaway realise they have many suspects - from the local anti-racism activist who was first in voicing her disgust at the professor's beliefs to the women who had bombarded him with threatening e-mails. But then another body turns up and the case takes on a new dimension. David Soul and Patrick Baladi guest star
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Kevin Whately
(Actor)
.. DI Lewis
Laurence Fox
(Actor)
.. DS Hathaway
Clare Holman
(Actor)
.. Dr Hobson
Rebecca Front
(Actor)
.. Ch Supt Innocent
Harriet Madeley
(Actor)
.. Emily Robinson
Richard Southgate
(Actor)
.. Will Pascoe
David Soul
(Actor)
.. Paul Yelland
David Calder
(Actor)
.. Andrew Lipton
Pippa Bennett-Warner
(Actor)
.. Nina Clemens
Jason Durr
(Actor)
.. DI Peterson
Jake Curran
(Actor)
.. Adam Pettle
Nancy Carroll
(Actor)
.. Anne Rand
Patrick Baladi
(Actor)
.. Robert Fraser
Nina Sosanya
(Actor)
.. Lilian Hunter
Sian Webber
(Actor)
.. Myra Bennett
Kemi-Bo Jacobs
(Actor)
.. DC Lockhart
Alton Letto
(Actor)
.. Gurdip Sohal
Huw Higginson
(Actor)
.. Stephen Pettle
Rita Davies
(Actor)
.. Edna O'Brien
Josephine Tewson
(Actor)
.. Hazel O'Brien
Amy Neilson Smith
(Actor)
.. Dental nurse
Simon Block
(Writer)
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Damien Timmer
(Executive producer)
Chris Burt
(Producer)
Tim Fywell
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Kevin Whately
(Actor)
.. DI Lewis
Born:
February 06, 1951
in
Newcastle upon Tyne
Best Known For:
Playing John Thaw's right-hand man Lewis in Inspector Morse.
Early-life:
Kevin George Edward Whately was born on February 6, 1951, in Hexham, and grew up in the remote Northumberland countryside. His father was in the Navy, and Whately only saw him two or three times a year. He began acting at the age of four and it remained a passion throughout school, alongside a short-lived desire to be a doctor. When his careers teacher advised against acting, he went into accountancy for three years. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His brother, Frank, is a drama lecturer.
Career:
Whately's TV debut came in a 1979 episode of Shoestring. Two years later he had a six-week stint on Coronation Street. His big break came in 1983, when he landed the role of Neville in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. In 1987, he made his first appearance as Sgt Lewis in Morse, and has since appeared in Peak Practice, the TV dramas Trip Trap, Gobble, and The Broker's Man, as well as Oscar-winning drama The English Patient. Other projects include Paranoid, Silent Cry, Murder in Mind, Purely Belter, Promoted to Glory and The Children. He's now the star of hit Morse spin-off Lewis.
Quote:
On John Thaw: 'John had a wonderful sense of humour which is belied sometimes by journalists' impression of him as irascible. He was a wonderful mimic, particularly of people on the set rather than famous people.'
Trivia:
Married to actress Madeleine Newton, who appeared alongside him in both Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Inspector Morse. They have two children, Kieran and Kitty. His daughter is an acclaimed opera singer.
Laurence Fox
(Actor)
.. DS Hathaway
Born:
May 26, 1978
in
Yorkshire
Best Known For:
Lewis.
Early-life:
Laurence Paul Fox was born in Yorkshire on May 26, 1978. Born into a theatrical family, he is the son of actor James Fox and the nephew of actor Edward Fox and theatre and film producer Robert Fox. Acting relatives also include his brother Jack and sister Lydia, and cousins Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox. Two years after leaving Harrow, Laurence developed a love of acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). During his time there, he appeared in a number of stage productions.
Career:
Fox was still studying at Rada when he landed a role in his first feature film, 2001 horror-thriller The Hole. He went on to star in Gosford Park (2001), TV miniseries Island at War and TV movie Colditz. His big break came in 2006 when he was cast alongside Kevin Whately in Inspector Morse spin-off Lewis. Other credits include Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Becoming Jane (2007), W.E. (2011) and TV movie Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me. Fox has also featured in a number of stage productions, including Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.
Quote:
'Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.'
Trivia:
Wed fellow actress Billie Piper in 2007.
Clare Holman
(Actor)
.. Dr Hobson
Rebecca Front
(Actor)
.. Ch Supt Innocent
Born:
May 16, 1964
in
Stoke Newington
Best Known For:
The Thick of It.
Early-life:
Rebecca Louise Front was born in Stoke Newington on May 16, 1964. She comes from an artistic family - her father is an artist, her mother writes children's stories and her brother Jeremy writes (he and Rebecca often write together, most notably Radio 4's Incredible Women). Rebecca knew she wanted to act from the age of six or seven. After leaving school, she studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she began performing with the Oxford Theatre Group.
Career:
Front's comedy career took off with the Radio 4 show The Bobo Girls, the second series of which was produced by Armando Iannucci, with whom she's worked with numerous times since, most notably on The Thick of It. Other comedy projects include On the Hour, The Day Today, Absolute Power, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, The Spa and various Alan Partridge projects. Front has also dabbled in drama, with roles in The Rotters' Club, Kavanagh QC, Lewis, Jonathan Creek, and Humans.
Quote:
'I'd love a role in Sherlock. Or maybe I could play a Doctor Who monster or something. That'd be brilliant.'
Trivia:
Front's father, Charles Front, designed the title logo for The Beatles album Rubber Soul.
Harriet Madeley
(Actor)
.. Emily Robinson
Richard Southgate
(Actor)
.. Will Pascoe
David Soul
(Actor)
.. Paul Yelland
Born:
August 28, 1943
in
Chicago
Best Known For:
Starsky and Hutch (he was Hutch).
Early-life:
Born David Richard Solberg on August 28, 1943, in Chicago. His mother was a teacher and his father was a Lutheran minister whose work on the reconstruction of Germany following the Second World War meant that the family moved around a lot. Soul later enrolled at the University of Minnesota, turning down a contract to play baseball in favour of studying political science. He supplemented his income with a job in a nightclub, singing folk songs and rock music. In 1967, he joined a North Dakota musical revue, and was spotted by a talent executive.
Career:
Soul made his movie debut in The Secret Sharer. He appeared on several TV shows, including I Dream Of Jeannie, Star Trek, Ironside, and Cannon, and had a role in Magnum Force before hitting the big time in 1975 when he was cast as Ken Hutchinson in Starsky and Hutch. The detective drama became a worldwide success and helped launch his pop career, which included several hits. He's since had roles in Salem's Lot, Holby City, Dalziel and Pascoe and Little Britain. He financed, produced and directed award-winning documentary The Fighting Ministers, then starred on the stage in Jerry Springer: The Opera. His most recent role was a cameo in the movie Filth.
Quote:
'There's not enough time to consider how life could have been different, it's just a pointless exercise. When you have an opportunity, just do it.'
Trivia:
Soul became a British citizen in 2004.
David Calder
(Actor)
.. Andrew Lipton
Pippa Bennett-Warner
(Actor)
.. Nina Clemens
Jason Durr
(Actor)
.. DI Peterson
Born:
December 02, 1967
in
Singapore
Best Known For:
Playing Mike Bradley in Heartbeat and David Hide in Casualty.
Early-life:
Born on December 2, 1967 in Singapore and raised in Hong Kong. Jason trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before attending the Royal Shakespeare Company. Here, he worked with director Trevor Nunn in Measure for Measure and The Blue Angel and with director Adrian Noble in Macbeth.
Career:
Since his days with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Durr has made a number of TV appearances in such shows as Inspector Morse and A Dark Adapted Eye and in television films like Gawain and the Green Knight (1991) and Sharpe's Battle (1995). He landed the role of policeman Mike Bradley in the TV series Heartbeat in 1997 and played the character until 2003. His other TV credits include Above Suspicion, Lewis and New Tricks. Durr also played the lead role in Down Dog (2014). More recently, he has played David Hide in Casualty.
Quote:
'I have lived all over the world but my heart now lies in the English countryside - if only it didn't rain quite so much.'
Trivia:
He enjoys rock climbing.
Jake Curran
(Actor)
.. Adam Pettle
Nancy Carroll
(Actor)
.. Anne Rand
Best Known For:
Winning an Olivier award for her performance in After the Dance at the Royal National Theatre.
Early-life:
Nancy was born in Bristol in 1974. She was three years old when she tap-danced at Brixton Town hall. She went on to study fine art but found the life of an artist too solitary. She ended up graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1998. Her first professional acting role was in the film An Ideal Husband (1999).
Career:
Carroll's stage credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Lady's Not for Burning, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Recruiting Officer, The Magistrate and After the Dance, for which she won an Olivier award. On the small screen, she has made guest appearances in Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Silent Witness. More recently, she played Lady Felicia Montague in the BBC daytime drama Father Brown. On film, she has also starred in Iris (2001).
Quote:
'Sometimes it's lovely to leave moments as moments. Rather than milk them for every single ounce of life.'
Trivia:
Carroll spent a year in Italy learning how to mix her own paints and stretch canvasses.
Patrick Baladi
(Actor)
.. Robert Fraser
Nina Sosanya
(Actor)
.. Lilian Hunter
Sian Webber
(Actor)
.. Myra Bennett
Kemi-Bo Jacobs
(Actor)
.. DC Lockhart
Alton Letto
(Actor)
.. Gurdip Sohal
Huw Higginson
(Actor)
.. Stephen Pettle
Rita Davies
(Actor)
.. Edna O'Brien
Josephine Tewson
(Actor)
.. Hazel O'Brien
Amy Neilson Smith
(Actor)
.. Dental nurse
Simon Block
(Writer)
Michele Buck
(Executive producer)
Damien Timmer
(Executive producer)
Chris Burt
(Producer)
Tim Fywell
(Director)
