Maurice Roëves
Actor
Biography
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Maurice Roëves is a Scottish actor, born in Sunderland, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) on 19 March 1937.
His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003).
He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans.
In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster.
He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City.
His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000).
In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air.
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Filmography
Judge Dredd
as Warden Miller 1995
Macbeth
as Menteith 2015
Escape to Victory
as Pyrie 1981
The Damned United
as Jimmy Gordon 2009
The Eagle Has Landed
as Major Corcoran 1976
The Dark
as Dafydd 2005
Hallam Foe
as Raymond 2007
The Acid House
as God 1998
Brighton Rock
as Chief Inspector 2010
Hidden Agenda
as Harris 1990
Beautiful Creatures
as Ronnie McMinn 2000
Fast Track: No Limits
as Schmitty 2008
David
as Joab 1997
When Eight Bells Toll
as Lt. Williams - Helicopter Pilot 1971
Young Winston
as Brockie 1972
Oh! What a Lovely War
as George Smith 1969