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Dead Man's Grip
Season 3, Episode 2
The detective and his team are called to the site of a fatal crash involving an articulated lorry, a car and a blue pick-up truck. An unexpected discovery found on the victim at the scene soon suggests there could be far more to this particular accident than meets the eye, sparking an unsettling chain of events that leads Grace and Branson on a game of cat and mouse through Brighton to save an innocent life before time runs out
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Movie/Drama
Police/Crime Drama
Cast & Crew
John Simm
(Actor)
.. Det Supt Roy Grace
Richie Campbell
(Actor)
.. DS Glenn Branson
Zoe Tapper
(Actor)
.. Cleo Morey
Laura Elphinstone
(Actor)
.. DS Bella Moy
Brad Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Nick Nicholl
Alex Cobb
(Actor)
.. Kevin Spinella
Sam Hoare
(Actor)
.. Cassian Pewe
Rebecca Scroggs
(Actor)
.. Ari Branson
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. DS Norman Potting
Darryl Dale
(Actor)
.. Tony Robinson
Stephanie Hyam
(Actor)
.. Laura Caplan
Ayesha Antoine
(Actor)
.. Carly Chase
Nathan Clark
(Actor)
.. PC Dan Paxton
Nick Harris
(Actor)
.. James Acott
Carolina Valdes
(Actor)
.. Nadiuska De Sancha
Leon Herbert
(Actor)
.. Malcolm Charles
Ethan Smith
(Actor)
.. Ethan Chase
Hebe Beardsall
(Actor)
.. Evie Preece
Frank Jakeman
(Actor)
.. Warren Tucker
Mark Griffin
(Actor)
.. Pat Robinson
Sara Stewart
(Actor)
.. Fernanda Robinson
James Corrigan
(Actor)
.. John Nash
Clare Calbraith
(Actor)
.. Sandy
Marko Curteanu
(Actor)
.. Bruno
Ed Whitmore
(Writer)
Isher Sahota
(Director)
Kiaran Murray-Smith
(Series producer)
Andrew O'Connor
(Executive producer)
Peter James
(Executive producer)
Patrick Schweitzer
(Executive producer)
Paul Sandler
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
John Simm
(Actor)
.. Det Supt Roy Grace
Born:
July 10, 1970
in
Leeds
Best Known For:
Playing Sam Tyler in Life on Mars
Early-life:
Born John Ronald Simm on July 10, 1970, in Leeds. He was raised in Nelson, Lancashire, and attended Edge End High School. He's the eldest of three children. His father Ronald, a local musician, taught him how to play the guitar and together they toured the region's working men's clubs. In 1986, aged 16, John enrolled at Blackpool Drama College, and two years later moved to London to study Stanislavsky's acting methods at London's Drama Centre.
Career:
Simm made his TV debut in a 1992 episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also appeared in Heartbeat, TV movie Meat, Dalziel and Pascoe's first drama A Pinch of Snuff, Cracker and the film Boston Kickout. Simm became a familiar face thanks to acclaimed series The Lakes. He went on to appear in such projects as Human Traffic, 24 Hour Party People, Spaced, White Teeth, State of Play and Sex Traffic. Simm's performance as troubled cop Sam Tyler in BBC hit Life on Mars made him a household name. Since then he's appeared in Doctor Who, Mad Dogs, The Village, Mad Dogs and Prey. While continuing his work as an actor, during the 1990s he was also a founder member of the rock band Magic Alex.
Quote:
On why he chose to make Life on Mars: "The mad twist at the start appealed to me. I thought, if I can make that believable I can make anything believable."
Trivia:
He's also played alongside his friend, Echo and the Bunnymen star Ian McCulloch, on albums and live on stage.
Richie Campbell
(Actor)
.. DS Glenn Branson
Zoe Tapper
(Actor)
.. Cleo Morey
Born:
October 26, 1981
in
Bromley, Kent
Best Known For:
Roles in a string of stage and screen hits.
Early-life:
Zoe Tapper was born on October 26, 1981, in Bromley, Kent. She trained at the Academy Drama School and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role. She first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty in 2004 and has since notched up a steady string of stage and screen credits.
Career:
Starring roles on TV include playing Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's The Private Life of Samuel Pepys alongside Steve Coogan, Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK TV series Hex, Hermia in the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Sheila Steafel in the 2008 BBC TV play The Curse of Steptoe and Anya Raczynski in the action-packed BBC remake of Survivors. She also took the lead role in the small-screen version of the Gothic ghost story Affinity.
Quote:
"I did a stunt with Mackenzie Crook where I had to kick him and grab him by the throat and it was great fun."
Trivia:
On stage, she has appeared in Epitaph For George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.
Laura Elphinstone
(Actor)
.. DS Bella Moy
Brad Morrison
(Actor)
.. DC Nick Nicholl
Alex Cobb
(Actor)
.. Kevin Spinella
Sam Hoare
(Actor)
.. Cassian Pewe
Rebecca Scroggs
(Actor)
.. Ari Branson
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. DS Norman Potting
Darryl Dale
(Actor)
.. Tony Robinson
Stephanie Hyam
(Actor)
.. Laura Caplan
Ayesha Antoine
(Actor)
.. Carly Chase
Nathan Clark
(Actor)
.. PC Dan Paxton
Nick Harris
(Actor)
.. James Acott
Carolina Valdes
(Actor)
.. Nadiuska De Sancha
Leon Herbert
(Actor)
.. Malcolm Charles
Ethan Smith
(Actor)
.. Ethan Chase
Hebe Beardsall
(Actor)
.. Evie Preece
Frank Jakeman
(Actor)
.. Warren Tucker
Mark Griffin
(Actor)
.. Pat Robinson
Sara Stewart
(Actor)
.. Fernanda Robinson
James Corrigan
(Actor)
.. John Nash
Clare Calbraith
(Actor)
.. Sandy
Marko Curteanu
(Actor)
.. Bruno
Ed Whitmore
(Writer)
Isher Sahota
(Director)
Kiaran Murray-Smith
(Series producer)
Andrew O'Connor
(Executive producer)
Peter James
(Executive producer)
Patrick Schweitzer
(Executive producer)
Paul Sandler
(Executive producer)
