Dalziel & Pascoe - Mens Sana - 12:20 am Thursday, May 14 on U&Drama +1

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

Norman Wisdom (Actor) .. Bernie Marks

Born: February 04, 1915 in London

Best Known For: Shouting 'Mr Grimsdale!'

Early-life: Norman Joseph Wisdom was born on February 4th, 1915, in London. He had a difficult childhood. His parents split up and his father, a violent drunk, disowned both Wisdom and his older brother Fred. Wisdom left school at 14 and became a cabin boy, working on ships travelling from Cardiff to Argentina. On his return, he joined the Army as a bandsman - he was too small to be a regular soldier. He learned to play eight instruments and was spotted performing in an Army concert by actor Rex Harrison, who urged him to turn professional.

Career: After a stage summer season, Wisdom was snapped up by the Rank Organisation, where he created his Gump character, Norman Pitkin, an accident-prone man with an ill-fitting suit and cloth cap. After his movie debut in 1948's Date with a Dream, he went on to have a string of big-screen successes, including Trouble in Store, which earned him a Bafta and introduced the self-penned song that would become his signature tune, Don't Laugh at Me (Cause I'm a Fool). In 1966, Wisdom was nominated for a Tony award for his performance in musical comedy Walking Happy on Broadway. Further success in America was denied him after he returned to London in the late 1960s to look after his children after his second wife Freda left him. His subsequent career was largely confined to TV work and touring the world with his cabaret act. He won critical acclaim in 1981 for his dramatic role in the TV play Going Gently. He also had a recurring role as Billy Ingleton in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. He was knighted in 2000 for services to entertainment. Wisdom was a cult figure in Albania, where he was one of the few actors from the West whose films were permitted to be aired during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. Wisdom died on October 4th, 2010, at a nursing home on the Isle of Man at the age of 95.

Quote: 'I was born in sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.'

Trivia: He was married for three months in 1939 to Doreen Brett. They had one son, Michael. He wed chorus girl Freda Simpson in 1947. They divorced 22 years later after having two children, Nicholas and Jacqueline.

David Royle (Actor) .. DS Edgar Wield

Keeley Forsyth (Actor) .. DC Carrie Harris

Julia Deakin (Actor) .. Chloe Miles

Anthony Booth (Actor) .. Sir Christopher Wynne

Jeff Rawle (Actor) .. Raymond Miles

Maxine Peake (Actor) .. Dr Allison Laurie

Born: July 14, 1974 in Bolton

Best Known For: Playing Twinkle in dinnerladies and Martha Costello in Silk.

Early-life: Born on July 14, 1974, in Bolton, Greater Manchester, to Brian, a lorry driver father and Glynis, a careworker mother. Maxine studied at Westhoughton High School and Canon Slade School before joining Bolton's Octagon Youth Theatre at the age of 13. She also honed her craft at the Royal Exchange Manchester and the University of Salford before moving to London at 21 where she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). She claims comedienne Marti Caine was an inspiration to her.

Career: Early TV appearances included The Ward, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Picking Up The Pieces. Roles in Jonathan Creek and Coronation Street boosted her profile, but it was Victoria Wood's sitcom dinnerladies that really put her on the showbiz map. She also received acclaim for Clocking Off and sublime comedy Early Doors before landing the part of Veronica in Shameless. In recent years she's been much in demand, starring in Messiah, See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Little Dorrit, Red Riding and The Street. She is currently starring in the BBC legal drama Silk. Maxine has also enjoyed an extensive stage career, with roles in Hamlet, Robin Hood, Leaves of Glass, The Children's Hour, and The Deep Blue Sea. In 2012 she wrote her first radio play about Leeds cyclist Beryl Burton.

Quote: 'I remember feeling, at drama school, that if you were male and working class you were a bit of a poet, a working class hero. But if you were female, you were just a bit gobby and a bit brassy and common.'

Trivia: She provided vocals for 1612 Underture, the Eccentronic Research Council's 2012 concept album.

Karen E Jones (Actor) .. Maggie Hopcraft

Lucy Pargeter (Actor) .. Judy Venables

Born: September 01, 1977 in Nottingham

Best Known For: Playing Chas Dingle in Emmerdale.

Early-life: Lucy was born in Nottingham on September 1, 1977, and was trained at the Central Junior Television Workshop. She used to be a member of the band Paper Dolls, which toured with Boyzone in the early 1990s.

Career: Lucy's first screen role was in the TV Movie The Bare Necessities in 1996. She went on to appear in Soldier Soldier, Peaches and Dalziel and Pascoe. She played Helen Raven in Crossroads from 2002 to 2003, before landing the role of Chastity ‘Chas' Dingle in Emmerdale, where she has remained ever since. In 2006, she appeared in singing competition Soapstar Superstar, finishing in third place. In November 2013, she was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

Quote: 'I don't watch soaps. I don't watch any of them. I just don't have time and when I get home from work it's not so that I can sit down and watch other soaps. It's 'off time'. I have to learn lines, get my daughter Lola off to bed, make dinner, stuff like that.'

Trivia: She once performed in Stars in Their Eyes as Emma Bunton.

Sanjeev Bhaskar (Actor) .. Graham Shah

Born: June 28, 1964 in Ealing

Best Known For: The Kumars at No 42.

Early-life: Born on June 28, 1964, in Ealing, London, to Asian immigrants living in Hounslow. He gained a degree and worked in marketing for seven years, writing monologues and sketches as a hobby. After realising he didn't like working in an office, he began performing comedy routines in clubs. His friend, musician Nitin Sawhney, encouraged him after the duo realised nobody was doing stand-up about being Asian and British. They formed a double act called The Secret Indians (Non-Asian) in 1996.

Career: As Bhaskar and Sawhney's stage act grew in popularity they were noticed by the producer of sketch show The Real McCoy, who introduced Bhaskar to Kulvinder Ghir, Nina Wadia and Meera Syal - who then formed the Goodness Gracious Me team. It began on radio, before making its TV debut in 1998. It was an instant success. Since then, he's appeared in Notting Hill, The Guru, Anita and Me, and cult chat-show The Kumars at No 42. He's also starred in the West End in long-running hit Art and visited his ancestral home in what is now Pakistan during the travelogue India with Sanjeev Bhaskar. Other acting gigs include sitcom Mumbai Calling and daytime drama The Indian Doctor.

Quote: 'Most of my characters are based on truth. The Kumars at No 42 are basically my parents.'

Trivia: He married actress Meera Syal in 2005. They have a son, Shaan.

Mushi Noor (Actor) .. Dinesh

James Puddephatt (Actor) .. Dr Paul Ashurst

Una Brandon-Jones (Actor) .. Harriet Vanstone

Bryan Dick (Actor) .. Marcus Vanstone

Born: July 10, 1978 in Carlisle

Best Known For: Playing Ernie Wise in Eric & Ernie.

Early-life: Bryan Dick was born in Carlisle on July 10, 1978. He wanted to become a dancer when he was younger and learned to play several musical instruments as a child. Supported by his parents and older brother, he went to stage school, and soon landed the first of several TV roles that made him a highly respected child actor before taking time off to concentrate on music. He saved up enough money to return to stage school aged 20, and shortly afterwards began attracting the attention of casting agents.

Career: Dick's first starring role was in the ITV miniseries The Life and Times of Henry Pratt in 1992. Since then he has made guest appearances in a number of well-known TV shows, including Clocking Off, The Bill, Dalziel & Pascoe, Foyle's War, Blackpool, Bleak House, Shameless and Lewis. In 2011, he played Ernie Wise in the acclaimed BBC drama Eric & Ernie. On the big screen, Dick has starred in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Blood and Chocolate, and Colour Me Kubrick.

Quote: "You can't love me like my big black jumper."

Trivia: On the stage, Dick played Mozart in a 2007 production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

Penelope Freeman (Actor) .. Consultant

Lorraine Bruce (Actor) .. Nurse

Vincent Davies (Actor) .. Desk Sgt

Hayley Jayne Standing (Actor) .. Waitress

Leah-Verity White (Actor) .. Young Girl

Stephen Churchett (Writer)

Juliet May (Director)

Ann Tricklebank (Producer)

Dalziel & Pascoe: Mens Sana

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