Ray Burdis
Birthday: Born in 1958-08-23 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Three Up, Two Down
Character: Nick Tyler
Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises from the fact that the mismatched Daphne and Sam are forced by circumstances to share the flat below that occupied by their children....
The Professionals
Character: Vince
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contenti...
Operation Good Guys
Character: D.S. Ash
Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footb...
Wolcott
Character: PC Brock
A black policeman is promoted to the CID and battles the drug trade in London's East End....
4 Idle Hands
Character: Pete Sutton
Two teenagers try to secure gainful employment after leaving school....
Minder
Character: Disco Youth
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley....
Minder
Character: Jimmy Elliot
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley....
Casualty
Character: Alan 'Dusty' Binns
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....
My Hero
Character: Detective Symes
My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the...
Movie Credits
Scum
Character: Eckersley
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory....
The Music Machine
Character: Joe
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film....
Love, Honour and Obey
Character: Ray
Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for action, Jonny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and a rival firm in South London headed by drug kingpin Sean and his lieutenant Matthew....
Final Cut
Character: Burdis
A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill....
20 Times More Likely
Character:
Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty times more likely to have an accident....
Panic
Character: Punk
After being harassed by a couple of punks, a young woman picks up an old lady standing at the roadside in the rain....
Gandhi
Character: Youth
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed....
There's No Place...
Character: Youth in Cafe
Val and Tony set up home in a disused railway goods-yard. It is more than just a squat and draws them closer together than they have ever been....
Ties
Character: Graham
Karen and her older sister Sandra both take a trip to Brighton due to unforeseen circumstances....
Scum
Character: Eckersley
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders....
Pressure
Character: Dave
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures....
The Vanishing Army
Character: Dunning
"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life....
Eleanor
Character: Danny Price
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?...
To Be Someone
Character: Dickson
Life couldn’t be better for entrepreneur and British Mod, Danny. That is until he’s introduced to Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs run....
The Police
Character: Ray
Drama documentary for the BBC Schools series Scene looking at London's Metropolitan Police, their role and powers within society and how society, specifically young people, view them....
Mary's Wife
Character: Kevin
A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity....