Photographs/Autographs Ian McNeice
Ian McNeice’s television breakthrough was as Harcourt in the award-winning series Edge of Darkness with Bob Peck. He played the alcoholic sous chef Gustave La Roche on the television series Chef! opposite Lenny Henry and went on to appear in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune as the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen with William Hurt a role he later reprised for the 2003 sequel Children of Dune with Susan Sarandon. His television appearances have included all nine series of Doc Martin with Martin Clunes, in which he plays Bert Large. He appears as the Newsreader in the HBO/BBC historical drama series Rome from 2005 onwards. McNeice has also appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road with Anthony Hopkins, Day of the Dead with Ving Rames, No Escape with Ray Liotta, From Hell with Jonnie Depp and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain with Hugh Grant. His breakthrough into American films occurred when he played Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls opposite Jim Carrey (1995). He played the Nazi Gerhard Klopfer in the 2001 BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy with Stanly Tucci and Kenneth Branagh. Since then, he has been in Around the World in 80 Days with Jackie Chan (2004) and the 2005 supernatural thriller White Noise with Michael Keaton. He also appeared as Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donnie Osmond and Joan Collins.
He had a cameo role as Joachim von Kortzfleisch, a German general who refused to put his troops under the command of officers plotting to depose Hitler’s government, in Valkyrie playing opposite Tom Cruise. Recently he was in The Man who invented Christmas with Dan Stevens. He appeared as Winston Churchill in four episodes of Doctor Who in 2010 and 2011; he had previously played Churchill in the 2008 premiere production of the Howard Brenton’s play Never So Good at the National Theatre, and later played him again in the 2012 stage version of The King’s Speech at Wyndhams Theatre in the West End. Recently he played Cardinal Wolesley at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Henry V111.
In July 2022 he was in the 10th and Final Episode of Doc Martin as Bert Large. Since then he was Alfred Hitchcock in a Mini Series of the Life of Carey Grant called “Archie”. Also he appeared as Louis XV111 in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
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