Simon O'Brien
Birthday: Born in 1965-06-19 in Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Heartbeat
Character: Vince
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Fraggle Rock
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The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves....
To Buy or Not to Buy
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To Buy or Not to Buy was a British reality television series made between 2003 and 2010 for BBC One in the UK. The final series was the eleventh and contained 90 episodes, in one of two formats—either 30 or 45 minutes in length. It aired on both BBC1 and BBC2. The show also airs on Saturday mornings on RTE One in Ireland....
Celebrity Mastermind
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Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner....
My Dream Derelict Home
Character: Presenter
Property renovator Simon O'Brien charts the stories of brave homeowners who are risking everything to breathe new life into some of the country's most dilapidated properties. Run down, boarded up and falling to bits, most people who run a mile from these houses. But, in My Dream Derelict Home, fifteen brave couples are putting everything on the line to save them....
The Great House Giveaway
Character: Presenter
Under the watchful eye of Simon O’Brien two strangers must buy a house at auction and with the help of a renovation budget they must flip a house and sell it on, working together to turn the property around. If the house makes a profit, they get to keep it to help them make that all important first step onto the property ladder!...
Grange Hill
Character: Wally Scott
Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school....
Casualty
Character: Jon Gartshore
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Find It, Fix It, Flog It
Character: Self - Presenter
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien travel across the UK to find unique items lost in people's homes. Using creative thinking and elbow grease, they fix them up to turn a profit for their owners....
Movie Credits
When Football Changed Forever - The Story of the 1991/1992 Football Division One Season
Character: Narrator
The dramatic story of the 1991/92 Football League Division One season - the final campaign before the Premier League began. Leeds United overcame fierce rivals Manchester United to emerge as champions, thanks to a certain Frenchman named Eric Cantona, but behind the scenes, the makeup of English League football was to change forever....
Dancin' Thru the Dark
Character: Kav
Linda's out on her hen night, her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married, when both groups arrive at a club, to find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend—and the love of her life—Peter. Linda has to decide: Does she stay and settle down, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?...
Kicks
Character: TV newsreader
Nicole is an introverted Liverpudlian teenager, all but deserted by her parents, with a mother distractedly working nights and a father who has settled with a new family elsewhere. She spends time hanging around the gates of Anfield and the Melwood training ground, desperate for a glimpse of her idol, the star midfielder Lee Cassidy. She Meets aspirant WAG Jasmine, who is from an affluent family, more glamorous and streetwise, yet the girls' shared adoration to Cassidy lead them to bond instantl...