David Neilson
Actor
Biography
David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying cafe owner Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. In a break from the show in 2016, Neilson starred in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Home in Manchester. Prior to taking up the role of Roy Cropper, Neilson appeared in several TV shows including Boys from The Blackstuff, Resnick, Secret Army, Once Upon a Time in the North, Blue Heaven, Bergerac, Casualty and EastEnders, and in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies.
Filmography
Life Is Sweet
as Steve 1990
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
as Roy Cropper 2009
Knights & Emeralds
as Ashby 1986
Corriedale
as Roy Cropper (deleted scene) 2026
Sons and Lovers
as Edgar 1981
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
as DS Graham Millington 1992
Resnick: Rough Treatment
as DS Graham Millington 1993
Majority
as Len Taylor 2020