The Bill: Rookies and Professionals
10:00 am - 11:00 am, Saturday, July 25 on U&W (25)
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Rookies and Professionals
Season 20, Episode 30
With Kerry's alleged rape plastered across the papers, undercover journalist Andrea deflects attention away from herself by pinning the blame on Gabriel, whose punishment is being made community bobby on the Cole Lane Estate - where he becomes a merciless law-enforcing vigilante. Meanwhile, Gina meets her match in equally feisty new CPS lawyer Jonathan Fox, but is taken with his charms. Will she let her guard down and love in?
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16x9
Movie/Drama
Police/Crime Drama
Cast & Crew
Linda Lusardi
(Actor)
.. Maggie Black
Larry Lamb
(Actor)
.. Jonathan Fox
Natalie Roles
(Actor)
.. DS Debbie McAllister
Russell Floyd
(Actor)
.. DC Ken Drummond
Todd Carty
(Actor)
.. PC Gabriel Kent
Ofo Uhiara
(Actor)
.. PC Lance Powell
Ciaran Griffiths
(Actor)
.. PC Gary Best
Roberta Taylor
(Actor)
.. Insp Gina Gold
Natalie J Robb
(Actor)
.. PC Andrea Dunbar
Cyril Nri
(Actor)
.. Supt Adam Okaro
Michele Austin
(Actor)
.. PC Yvonne Hemmingway
Bruce Byron
(Actor)
.. DC Terry Perkins
Brian Bovell
(Actor)
.. DC Rob Thatcher
Andrew Lancel
(Actor)
.. DI Neil Manson
Vickie Gates
(Actor)
.. SRO Marilyn Chambers
Beth Cordingly
(Actor)
.. PC Kerry Young
Luke Hamill
(Actor)
.. CAD Officer Dean McVerry
Dave Hart
(Actor)
.. Alan Macy
Brian Cowan
(Actor)
.. Graham Leonard
Jamie Nichols
(Actor)
.. Mark Lewis
Tony Timberlake
(Actor)
.. Steph Lewis
John Axon
(Actor)
.. Keith Briggs
Nick Raggett
(Actor)
.. Roger Laffrey
Billy Seymour
(Actor)
.. Bill Gadd
Tom Cotter
(Producer)
Ged Maguire
(Director)
Joe Fraser
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Linda Lusardi
(Actor)
.. Maggie Black
Larry Lamb
(Actor)
.. Jonathan Fox
Born:
October 10, 1947
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Archie in EastEnders.
Early-life:
Born in London in 1943, Lamb joined the oil industry, which resulted in him working in Libya and Canada, where he attended St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. This developed his amateur interest in acting into a professional level, performing at Canada's Stratford Festival in 1975-1976. He returned to the UK, and became a regular cast member, along with Kate O'Mara, in the BBC's North Sea ferry based soap Triangle (1981-83), in which he played Matt Taylor, the ship's Chief Engineer.
Career:
Other credits include The New Avengers, The Professionals, Fox, Minder, Get Back, Lovejoy, Get Back, A Touch of Frost, Our Friends in the North, Taggart, Casualty, Kavanagh QC, Spooks, Midsomer Murders and The Bill. Lamb has also appeared in various films including the 1980s hit Buster also starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters, as Peter Chase in Essex Boys and in 1983, had a small speaking role in the blockbuster Superman III. Most recently, Lamb has been seen in Gavin & Stacey playing Gavin's father, Michael Shipman. In 2008, he began playing the part of twisted, manipulative Archie Mitchell in Eastenders.
Quote:
"Archie is two characters rolled into one - he is Mr Nice and Mr Nasty!"
Trivia:
He is the father of BBC 6 Music disc jockey, Celebrity Scissorhands and Big Brother's Little Brother presenter George Lamb.
Natalie Roles
(Actor)
.. DS Debbie McAllister
Russell Floyd
(Actor)
.. DC Ken Drummond
Todd Carty
(Actor)
.. PC Gabriel Kent
Born:
August 31, 1963
in
Limerick, Ireland
Best Known For:
Grange Hill and EastEnders.
Early-life:
Born Todd Jennings on August 31, 1963, in Limerick, Ireland, but grew up in Kilburn, North London. His father was an engineer, his mother a nurse. He has two sisters. Carty started acting at just four years old. His first TV appearance came in a commercial for a well-known department store.
Career:
Carty made his film debut in the big-screen version of Please Sir! in 1971. Other early appearances came in Professor Popper's Problem, and Z Cars. His big break came when he was cast as Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill in 1978. When he left four years later, the show's ratings dipped, prompting the BBC to launch a spin-off, Tucker's Luck, in 1983, the same year he appeared in the movie Krull. He began a 13-year stint in EastEnders in 1990. He's also appeared in Black Velvet Band, and returned briefly to Grange Hill in 2003. Carty joined The Bill in the same year, before leaving in 2005. Since then, he has appeared in the last-ever episode of Grange Hill (2008), and Dangerous Adventures for Boys. He has also starred in a number of pantomimes and the role of Patsy in a touring version of Spamalot.
Quote:
'I have no desire to be famous or a celebrity. I suppose a lot of kids do, but you never hear anyone saying they want to work hard.'
Ofo Uhiara
(Actor)
.. PC Lance Powell
Ciaran Griffiths
(Actor)
.. PC Gary Best
Roberta Taylor
(Actor)
.. Insp Gina Gold
Born:
February 26, 1948
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Irene Raymond in EastEnders and Inspector Gina Gold in The Bill.
Early-life:
Born the illegitimate child of a bus conductor on 26 February, 1948, in London, Roberta was brought up by her mother, aunts and grandmother. She was always very close to her mum, and they lived in the same street in London before she died suddenly of bronchial pneumonia. Roberta documented her early years in the 2005 memoir Too Many Mothers. After attending drama school in London, she joined the highly acclaimed Glasgow Citizens' Company and worked for years in theatre.
Career:
Appeared in the projects Ladykillers, Inspector Morse, The Witches, Tom & Viv, Dangerfield and Silent Witness before being cast as Irene Raymond in EastEnders. She stayed with the hit soap for three years until 2000, then went on to appear in Doctors and Holby City. After four previous appearances in The Bill, she was finally cast as Gina Gold in 2002, and played the same character in spin-off series MIT: Murder Investigation Team. She also appeared in the BBC's 2005 critically acclaimed adaptation of Bleak House.
Quote:
'It's fantastic to play somebody like Gina (in The Bill). She is just so sarcastic with everybody. It takes people's breath away and she is not shocked by anything.'
Trivia:
Away from acting, she is an active supporter of the Labour Party.
Natalie J Robb
(Actor)
.. PC Andrea Dunbar
Born:
December 03, 1974
in
Belshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Best Known For:
Playing Moira Barton in Emmerdale.
Early-life:
Natalie Joy Robb was born on December 3, 1974 in Belshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. She went to weekend drama groups in Glasgow and later attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Her acting career started while she was a child, after director Alan Macmillan discovered her at her weekend drama groups. Natalie won the BBC Young Entertainer of the Year award at age 13.
Career:
Robb has had roles in a number of continuing TV dramas, including Take the High Road in the early 1990s and one season of Dream Team. She played Jude Carlyle in Doctors for three years before leaving to join the cast of The Bill as Andrea Dunbar. After that, she appeared in New Tricks, EastEnders and Waterloo Road before joining the cast of Emmerdale as Moira Barton.
Quote:
On moving to London to pursue acting: 'I looked up to the sky to ask the universe and thought I'm going to do this and follow this dream and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work but, back me up, will you?'
Trivia:
When she moved to London to pursue acting, she slept in her car for the first couple of weeks.
Cyril Nri
(Actor)
.. Supt Adam Okaro
Michele Austin
(Actor)
.. PC Yvonne Hemmingway
Bruce Byron
(Actor)
.. DC Terry Perkins
Brian Bovell
(Actor)
.. DC Rob Thatcher
Andrew Lancel
(Actor)
.. DI Neil Manson
Vickie Gates
(Actor)
.. SRO Marilyn Chambers
Beth Cordingly
(Actor)
.. PC Kerry Young
Luke Hamill
(Actor)
.. CAD Officer Dean McVerry
Dave Hart
(Actor)
.. Alan Macy
Brian Cowan
(Actor)
.. Graham Leonard
Jamie Nichols
(Actor)
.. Mark Lewis
Tony Timberlake
(Actor)
.. Steph Lewis
John Axon
(Actor)
.. Keith Briggs
Nick Raggett
(Actor)
.. Roger Laffrey
Billy Seymour
(Actor)
.. Bill Gadd
Tom Cotter
(Producer)
Ged Maguire
(Director)
Joe Fraser
(Writer)
