The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: The Seed of Cunning
11:00 pm - 02:00 am, Saturday, March 28 on U&Drama +1 (60)
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The Seed of Cunning
Season 4, Episode 3
Feature-length episode. When a doorkeeper at the House of Lords is murdered, Lynley and Havers believe the victim's gambling debts must have been the motive. When a clerk also dies, evidence of a wider conspiracy involving stolen papers is uncovered. The detectives locate the missing documents, but realise they are being followed and must catch the killer before someone beats them to it
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16x9
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Roger Allam
(Actor)
.. Simon Featherstonehaugh
John Standing
(Actor)
.. Black Rod
Clive Merrison
(Actor)
.. Geoffrey Crammond
Richard Henders
(Actor)
.. Tim Sadler
Claudie Blakley
(Actor)
.. Letitia Gane
Matilda Ziegler
(Actor)
.. Christine Marshall
Gawn Grainger
(Actor)
.. David Thompson
Paul Hickey
(Actor)
.. Lafferty
Christine Kavanagh
(Actor)
.. Pippa Featherstonehaugh
Tony Haygarth
(Actor)
.. Bob Tamworth
Garrick Hagon
(Actor)
.. Joseph Frady
Janet Dale
(Actor)
.. Marie Ramsey
David Mallinson
(Actor)
.. Peter Bellamy
Hugh Sachs
(Actor)
.. Steve
Bo Poraj
(Actor)
.. Martin
Kevin Dignam
(Actor)
.. Owen
Pieter Lawman
(Actor)
.. Technician
Danny Babington
(Actor)
.. Soco Officer
James Pearse
(Actor)
.. Eric Ramsey
Glyn Williams
(Actor)
.. Digicam man
Sophie Bould
(Actor)
.. Penny
Christopher Aird
(Producer)
Jeremy Silberston
(Director)
Mark Greig
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Born:
May 18, 1962
in
London
Best Known For:
His dashing TV roles.
Early-life:
Born in London on May 18, 1962. He's the son of former British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker and his wife Jill. One of his brothers, Oliver, is also an actor and director. He was educated at Leighton Park School, where he developed a passion for horse racing. After starring with the National Youth Theatre he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (Lamda). On graduating, he already had his Equity card and landed a theatre job immediately.
Career:
Following a spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Parker made his TV debut in 1988's Piece of Cake. He has worked constantly ever since, including a four-year stint abroad during which he appeared in Hollywood films Hamlet and The Bodyguard, although he didn't become a well-known face until ITV's 1998 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Since then he's starred in the BBC's Vanity Fair, and took over from John Hannah in McCallum. Other notable projects include Othello (directed by his brother), Wide Sargasso Sea, The Haunted Mansion, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Stardust. More recently, he has starred in Merlin.
Quote:
'I have always thought women were the superior sex. Witnessing childbirth confirmed it for me.'
Trivia:
His theatre work includes Quartermaine's Terms, The Audience, and Wolf Hall.
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Born:
January 01, 1967
in
Drumchapel, Glasgow
Best Known For:
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Mistresses.
Early-life:
Sharon was born in Drumchapel, Glasgow on January 1, 1967. She studied drama at the Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy and the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her first TV credit was a guest role in an episode of Taggart in 1994.
Career:
Guest parts followed in a number of TV shows until Small landed a lead role in BBC comedy drama Sunburn. This lasted for two series and she followed it up with the six-part drama Glasgow Kiss. She went on to star in About a Boy (2002) and Dear Frankie (2004) and had guest parts in Cutting It and Rebus before landing a lead role as DS Barbara Havers in BBC crime drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries alongside Nathaniel Parker. The series ran from 2001 until 2008. More recently, the in-demand actress has starred in Murderland, Mistresses, Downton Abbey, Kidnap and Ransom, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders.
Quote:
'One of the fantastic things and joys of acting is looking for flaws in characters - if you are perfect or too likeable, you are not going to be believable, so hopefully, you bring in flaws as well.'
Trivia:
Small is a classically trained lyric soprano.
Roger Allam
(Actor)
.. Simon Featherstonehaugh
John Standing
(Actor)
.. Black Rod
Clive Merrison
(Actor)
.. Geoffrey Crammond
Richard Henders
(Actor)
.. Tim Sadler
Claudie Blakley
(Actor)
.. Letitia Gane
Matilda Ziegler
(Actor)
.. Christine Marshall
Gawn Grainger
(Actor)
.. David Thompson
Paul Hickey
(Actor)
.. Lafferty
Christine Kavanagh
(Actor)
.. Pippa Featherstonehaugh
Tony Haygarth
(Actor)
.. Bob Tamworth
Garrick Hagon
(Actor)
.. Joseph Frady
Janet Dale
(Actor)
.. Marie Ramsey
David Mallinson
(Actor)
.. Peter Bellamy
Hugh Sachs
(Actor)
.. Steve
Bo Poraj
(Actor)
.. Martin
Kevin Dignam
(Actor)
.. Owen
Pieter Lawman
(Actor)
.. Technician
Danny Babington
(Actor)
.. Soco Officer
James Pearse
(Actor)
.. Eric Ramsey
Glyn Williams
(Actor)
.. Digicam man
Sophie Bould
(Actor)
.. Penny
Christopher Aird
(Producer)
Jeremy Silberston
(Director)
Mark Greig
(Writer)
