Dalziel & Pascoe: Houdini's Ghost
11:25 pm - 01:50 am, Friday, May 29 on U&Drama (20)
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Houdini's Ghost
Season 10, Episode 1
Feature-length episode, starring Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the chalk-and-cheese detectives. The mysterious death of a wealthy entrepreneur opens up a hornet's nest of family tensions, betrayal and cover-ups involving radioactive waste - and brings Dalziel face to face with an old flame. Cherie Lunghi guest stars
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audio-description
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Mystery
Cast & Crew
Cherie Lunghi
(Actor)
.. Kay Miclean
Warren Clarke
(Actor)
.. Det Supt Andy Dalziel
Colin Buchanan
(Actor)
.. DI Peter Pascoe
John Bowe
(Actor)
.. Bill Walker
Rocky Marshall
(Actor)
.. Jason Chapman
Jennifer James
(Actor)
.. PC Kim `Posh" Spicer
Daniel Evans
(Actor)
.. Rob Miclean
Hannah Yelland
(Actor)
.. Helen Chapman
Paul Barber
(Actor)
.. Clive Griffin
Zita Sattar
(Actor)
.. Louise Hepburn
Earl Cameron
(Actor)
.. Arthur Nolan
Wayne Perrey
(Actor)
.. DC Parvez Lateef
Angie Garnett
(Actor)
.. Kelly Knightley
Mark Roper
(Actor)
.. PC Pat Conway
Joe Savino
(Actor)
.. Dr Frank Mason
Ann Tricklebank
(Series producer)
Patrick Lau
(Director)
Elizabeth-Anne Wheal
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Cherie Lunghi
(Actor)
.. Kay Miclean
Born:
April 04, 1952
in
London
Best Known For:
The Manageress and a series of coffee adverts.
Early-life:
Cherie Mary Lunghi was born on April 4, 1952, in Nottingham, the daughter of an Italian and his English wife. She was raised in London by her mother and her aunts after her father returned to Italy. Cherie began acting as a child on radio and in TV and eventually studied at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her acting training came at the Arts Educational School and the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also been keen on dancing, aerobics, horse-riding, painting and playing the piano from an early age.
Career:
Lunghi started out on stage, but made her TV debut in a 1968 episode of the BBC's classic Sherlock Holmes series. She's worked steadily ever since on the small and big screens, cropping up in the likes of Edward & Mrs Simpson, Excalibur, Tales of the Unexpected, The Monocled Mutineer, The Mission, and Ellis Island. However, it was popular footballing drama The Manageress which made her a major TV star in 1989. Since then, Lunghi has appeared in the likes of The Buccaneers, A Question of Guilt, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jack and Sarah, EastEnders, Cutting It, Midsomer Murders and Casualty 1906. She was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant in 2008.
Quote:
'It's intriguing to get your head around people who have evil intent. It's pretty complicated.'
Trivia:
Lunghi has narrated Who Do You Think You Are?
Warren Clarke
(Actor)
.. Det Supt Andy Dalziel
Born:
April 26, 1947
in
Oldham
Best Known For:
Dalziel & Pascoe (he played Dalziel).
Early-life:
Born Alan Clarke on April 26, 1947, in Oldham, where his father's job involved putting stained glass in church windows. He left school at 15 and became a runner at the Manchester Evening News while doing amateur dramatics in his spare time. He changed his first name to Warren because a girlfriend admired Warren Beatty. After realising he wanted to act, he got his first break in a radio play for BBC Manchester.
Career:
Clarke made his TV debut in the late 1960s, and went on to appear in episodes of Coronation Street, The Avengers, Callan, and The Virgin Soldiers before getting his big break with a prominent role in the controversial A Clockwork Orange in 1971. A variety of TV and movie work followed, including Shelley, SOS Titanic, Ishtar (alongside his namesake, Beatty) and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. High-profile roles later came in The Manageress, ID, The Mystery of Men, The Deputy, and Down to Earth. He became a household name thanks to a starring role in Dalziel & Pascoe, which first aired in 1996. He also appeared in Bleak House, Christmas at the Riviera, The Invisibles, Red Riding, Just William, and In with the Flynns. He died peacefully in his sleep on November 12, 2014 at the age of 67.
Quote:
'My headmaster told me: 'Don't become an actor. It's a ridiculous job. Anyway, you can't even speak properly. Why don't you become a bus driver or something?''
Trivia:
He supported Manchester City.
Colin Buchanan
(Actor)
.. DI Peter Pascoe
John Bowe
(Actor)
.. Bill Walker
Rocky Marshall
(Actor)
.. Jason Chapman
Jennifer James
(Actor)
.. PC Kim `Posh" Spicer
Daniel Evans
(Actor)
.. Rob Miclean
Hannah Yelland
(Actor)
.. Helen Chapman
Paul Barber
(Actor)
.. Clive Griffin
Zita Sattar
(Actor)
.. Louise Hepburn
Earl Cameron
(Actor)
.. Arthur Nolan
Wayne Perrey
(Actor)
.. DC Parvez Lateef
Angie Garnett
(Actor)
.. Kelly Knightley
Mark Roper
(Actor)
.. PC Pat Conway
Joe Savino
(Actor)
.. Dr Frank Mason
Ann Tricklebank
(Series producer)
Patrick Lau
(Director)
Elizabeth-Anne Wheal
(Writer)
