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The Company of Men
Season 10, Episode 2
Lady Felicia's impromptu visit coincides with Father Brown helping out a friend at an exclusive gentlemen's club. Mystery drama based on the stories by GK Chesterton, starring Mark Williams and Nancy Carroll
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Movie/Drama
Mystery
Cast & Crew
Mark Williams
(Actor)
.. Father Brown
Claudie Blakley
(Actor)
.. Mrs Devine
John Burton
(Actor)
.. Sgt Goodfellow
Nancy Carroll
(Actor)
.. Lady Felicia Montague
Tom Chambers
(Actor)
.. Chief Inspector Sullivan
Ruby-May Martinwood
(Actor)
.. Brenda Palmer
Roger Barclay
(Actor)
.. Jasper Granford
Dominique Moloney
(Writer)
Sean Gleeson
(Producer)
Paul Riordan
(Director)
Will Trotter
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Mark Williams
(Actor)
.. Father Brown
Born:
August 22, 1959
in
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Best Known For:
The Fast Show
Early-life:
Born in Bromsgrove on August 22, 1959. As a teen he hoped for a career in academia, then read English at Brasenose College, Oxford University where he discovered a love of both acting and writing. He spent three years touring with The Mikron Theatre Company before proving himself a fine comic actor with early roles in Red Dwarf and Alexei Sayle's Stuff.
Career:
Other early TV appearances came in Tumbledown, KYTV, Bottom and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Williams became a famous face thanks to his appearances in The Fast Show, where he played a number of memorable characters. The Canterbury Tales, Gormenghast and Shackleton followed, but it was his role as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise that made him recognisable worldwide. He has also appeared in successful films like Stardust and Shakespeare in Love and presented several documentary programmes, such as Mark Williams' Big Bangs.
Quote:
"I'll get me coat."
Trivia:
Away from showbusiness, he is an avid follower of both Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion football clubs.
Claudie Blakley
(Actor)
.. Mrs Devine
John Burton
(Actor)
.. Sgt Goodfellow
Nancy Carroll
(Actor)
.. Lady Felicia Montague
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.
Tom Chambers
(Actor)
.. Chief Inspector Sullivan
Born:
May 22, 1977
in
Darley Dale, Derbyshire
Best Known For:
Winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.
Early-life:
Tom Stuart Chambers was born in Darley Dale, Derbyshire, on 22 May 1977. He demonstrated a keen interest in performing arts while studying at Repton School, before attending the Guilford School of Acting and the National Youth Music Theatre, where Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller were also learning their trade. Tom starred in Brit flick Fakers (2004), before a re-enactment of Fred Astaire's tap dance routine with a drum kit in A Damsel in Distress on a video for casting directors landed him a role in Holby City.
Career:
Chambers began playing dishy doctor Sam Strachan in the medical drama in 2006, but became a household name by appearing in, and winning, the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing after beating Rachel Stevens in the final to take the crown. After three years in Holby City, he quit to briefly join the cast of Waterloo Road as no-nonsense headteacher Max Tyler. From August 2011 until February 2013, Chambers played Jerry Travers in the stage production of Top Hat. After initially touring the UK, it found a home at the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End. His recent TV credits include The Great Train Robbery and Father Brown.
Quote:
On Top Hat: "Doing eight shows a week is very demanding, physically and mentally. I constantly felt exhausted."
Trivia:
In 2008, Chambers took part in the Great Walk to Beijing, which was organised by singer Olivia Newton-John in aid of breast cancer awareness.
Ruby-May Martinwood
(Actor)
.. Brenda Palmer
Roger Barclay
(Actor)
.. Jasper Granford
Dominique Moloney
(Writer)
Sean Gleeson
(Producer)
Paul Riordan
(Director)
Will Trotter
(Executive producer)
