The Last Detective - The Man from Montevideo - 01:10 am Sunday, August 30 on U&Drama +1

Peter Davison (Actor) .. DC `Dangerous" Davies

Born: April 13, 1951 in Streatham, London

Best Known For: Being the fifth Doctor Who.

Early-life: Born Peter Moffett on April 13, 1951, in Streatham, south London. He moved with his three sisters to Surrey when his parents, Sheila and Claude, bought a village store. He had an undistinguished time at Winston Churchill School, but he did enjoy music and drama. After leaving with three O-levels, he considered teaching, but entered the Central School of Speech and Drama after catching the acting bug through amateur performances. To avoid confusion with director Peter Moffatt, he changed his surname to Davison.

Career: Davison's first professional role was in Love's Labour's Lost at Nottingham Playhouse in 1972 and his TV debut came in a 1975 episode of The Tomorrow People. A lean spell followed (during which he spent 18 months working in a tax office in Twickenham), but his big break came in 1978 when he landed the role of Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small. In 1981, he took over from Tom Baker as the fifth Doctor Who, but quit three years later for fear of being typecast. Other career highlights include A Very Peculiar Practice, Campion, At Home with the Braithwaites, The Last Detective, The Complete Guide to Parenting, Distant Shores and Law & Order: UK. Throughout 2010, he starred in the West End production of Legally Blonde, and directed and wrote a spoof documentary called The Five(ish) Doctors to tie in with Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013.

Quote: 'You don't ever decide you're old - at least I haven't yet. I'm still quite surprised if I get dragged for a night out somewhere why I'm yawning by half-past-11.'

Trivia: He composed the theme tunes for Button Moon and Mixed Blessings. His actress daughter, Georgia Moffett, is married to David Tennant.

Sean Hughes (Actor) .. Mod

Born: November 19, 1965 in London

Best Known For: His award-winning stand-up comedy and earlier role as a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Early-life: Born John Hughes in London on November 19, 1965, to a working-class Catholic family. He moved with his parents and two brothers to Dublin, where he grew up. He changed schools several times and found it difficult to form solid friendships and became a victim of bullying - a situation he has written about and discussed on numerous occasions. Returning to London as a teenager, he set his sights on a job at the Comedy Store and began working as a stand-up comedian. In 1990 he became the youngest ever recipient of the prestigious Perrier Award for Comedy.

Career: The show A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes toured the UK and Australia, as well as performances in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto. In 1991 he made a brief but memorable appearance in Alan Parker's acclaimed movie The Commitments as a record label executive, before writing and appearing in the aptly titled Sean's Show for Channel 4 a year later. Other TV programmes followed, including Sean's Shorts, but it was his six-year stint as a team captain on the irreverent music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks that made him a household name. His dramatic acting has included roles in Murder Most Horrid, Gormenghast, Girl on a Cycle, The Last Detective, Coronation Street, Agatha Christie's Marple, and Round Ireland with a Fridge.

Quote: When a 2004 performance was poorly attended, he said: 'Never mind the show, let's go to the pub,' before taking the audience for a pint.

Trivia: He has also written successful novels, prose and poetry.

Emma Amos (Actor) .. Julie Davies

Rob Spendlove (Actor) .. DI Ray Aspinall

Billy Geraghty (Actor) .. DC Darren Barrett

Charlie De'Ath (Actor) .. DS Steve Pimlott

Kenneth Cranham (Actor) .. Gary Solway

Born: December 12, 1944 in Dunfermline

Best Known For: Being a star of stage, TV and film.

Early-life: Kenneth was born in Dunfermline on December 12, 1944 to Margaret and Ronald. He trained to be an actor at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Rada. His breakthrough as an actor came in the 1960s when he starred in Joe Orton's Loot in the West End and on Broadway. He made his TV debut in an episode of City 68' in 1967.

Career: Cranham's long career has seen him switch effortlessly between roles on TV, film and in the theatre. On the small screen, he is best known for playing the lead role in popular 1980s comedy drama Shine On, Harvey Moon! but he has numerous TV credits to his name. He has starred in Danger UXB, Brideshead Revisited, Inspector Morse, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, El C.I.D., Minder, Our Mutual Friend, Rome, and Doc Martin among many others. On the big screen, he has starred in Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Born Romantic (2000), Layer Cake (2004), A Good Year (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Made in Dagenham (2010), and Maleficent (2014). He continues to be heavily in demand. On the stage, he is best known for playing Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, a play he performed in the West End and on Broadway.

Quote: On Shine on Harvey Moon: 'It was very popular in Scotland. I always thought it was because it was very like The Broons.'

Trivia: On the stage, he has a long association with the work of Harold Pinter.

Maggie O'Neill (Actor) .. Linda Hill

Born: November 15, 1962 in Buckinghamshire

Best Known For: EastEnders and Shameless.

Early-life: Margaret O'Neill was born in Buckinghamshire on November 15, 1962. She was educated at a convent school and was inspired by a sixth-form drama teacher to take up acting. She went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1985, she appeared in the video for Simply Red's Holding Back the Years, before making her stage debut in Moving Pictures at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

Career: O'Neill made her big-screen debut in Mona Lisa (1986) and two years later starred in Gorillas in the Mist. Better known for her TV work, she has made guest appearances in a number of programmes and had recurring roles in Take Me Home, Peak Practice, Shameless and EastEnders.

Quote: 'Some people feel guilty if they're not doing something with their day. Not me. I'm a slacker.'

Trivia: She enjoys pilates, yoga and reading.

Sam Kelly (Actor) .. Cyril Rickett

Josie Lawrence (Actor) .. Gillian Langham

Alison Steadman (Actor) .. Karen Horner

Born: August 26, 1946 in Liverpool

Best Known For: Abigail's Party and Gavin & Stacey.

Early-life: Alison was born on August 26, 1946, in Liverpool, where she was raised with two older sisters by her mother Marjorie and father George, who worked for an electronics firm. She wanted to be an actress from the age of nine and later trained at the East 15 acting school. Success did not come quickly, and she worked as a secretary for the Liverpool Probation Service before making her professional debut on stage in 1968 alongside Vanessa Redgrave in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Career: In 1973, she made her TV debut in Mike Leigh's Hard Labour. She has also worked with Leigh on TV movies Nuts in May and Abigail's Party, and the films Life Is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996) and Topsy-Turvy (1999). She made her movie debut in Champions (1983) and her other film credits include A Private Function (1984), Clockwise (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), Shirley Valentine (1989), Wilt (1990), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) and Confetti (2006). She earned a new army of fans with her role as matriarch Pamela in hit BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey. Her other TV credits include The Singing Detective, Pride and Prejudice, Fat Friends, The Syndicate, Love & Marriage and Boomers.

Quote: 'I didn't become an actress because I wanted to tell people what colour my knickers were. I wanted to entertain people.'

Trivia: Steadman won an Olivier Award in 1993 for her role in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

Norman Pace (Actor) .. Tony Hill/Jim Horner

Paul Reynolds (Actor) .. Shifty driver

Alan Barnes (Actor) .. Tramp

Ksenia Zaitseva (Actor) .. Katrina

Vineeta Rishi (Actor) .. WPC Kapoor

Arwel Davies (Actor) .. Welsh Dave

Matti Houghton (Actor) .. Ursala

Jane Galloway (Actor) .. Pathologist

Akbar Kurtha (Actor) .. Mohammed Al-Jabar

Bethany Turner (Actor) .. Prostitute

Christopher Brand (Actor) .. Tall man

Nick Cavaliere (Actor) .. Engineer

Adrian Christopher (Actor) .. Uniformed officer

Matthew Thomas (Writer)

Robbie Sandison (Producer)

Nick Hurran (Series producer)

Sandy Johnson (Director)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

Tim Vaughan (Executive producer)

The Last Detective: The Man from Montevideo

01:10 am - 02:45 am, Sunday, August 30 on U&Drama +1 (60)

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The Man from Montevideo
Season 4, Episode 4

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