Mick Ford
Birthday: Born in 1952-08-01 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mick Ford (born 1 August 1952; in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom) is a British actor, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his portrayal of intellectual convict Archer in the cinema version of Scum. He also played Chico Barnes in the TV series based on the Dick Francis racing thrillers. Ford was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School, Croydon, and was a member of the National Youth Theatre, along with appearing in the premiere of The Secret Rapture. Ford has written and starred in numerous British drama serials, theatrical productions, and has been used for many voiceovers and advertising campaigns. He had regular roles in the BBC drama series Silent Witness and Fish, and in the comedy Big Bad World. He has also written the critically acclaimed television dramas The Passion and William and Mary. He is the writer of Single Father, starring David Tennant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mick Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
TV Credits
The Racing Game
Character: Chico Barnes
Sid Halley, champion steeplechase jockey, suffers a devastating injury in a fall that ends his career. He sinks into self-pity until his aristocratic father-in-law bullies him into trying something new: becoming a private detective. A great literary gumshoe emerges as Halley regains his dignity, faces his vulnerability, and finds new meaning in life....
Big Bad World
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Caleb Williams
Character: Caleb Williams
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A Touch of Frost
Character: Bill Ford
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Frank Lightbourne
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Play for Today
Character: Frank
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration....
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Character: Tony Graham
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American ac...
Silent Witness
Character: Peter Ross
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible....
Movie Credits
Scum
Character: Archer
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory....
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Character: Richard
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck....
The Sailor's Return
Character: Tom Madgwick
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community....
Light Years Away
Character: Jonas
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds...
The Knowledge
Character: Chris Matthews
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers....
Next Week
Character: Grandad
A grandson struggles to connect with his granddad with Alzheimers....
Caleb Williams
Character: Caleb Williams
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Kim
Character: Cpl. Bruce
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy....
Bad Hats
Character: Chapin
In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and they end up on the coast of France, close to the fighting they wanted to leave behind. Once on shore, they make the acquaintance of a like-minded young widow who begins an affair with both men (she just wants to have a child by each) -- but their unusually idyllic existence is threatened with imminent tragedy as the French army advances ever closer....
The Boy with the Topknot
Character: Laura's Father
Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but instead learns a painful family secret....
Desert of Lies
Character: Jake
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened....
The Gourmet
Character: David
A rich, bored gourmand who has tasted all there is of exotic meals, even human flesh, gets a tip-off from a rich midget. The midget had tasted everything out of this world, and even something not of this world. In other words, a ghost. The gourmand becomes very interested…...
The Fourth Protocol
Character: Sergeant Bilbow
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation....
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Character: Frank
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness....
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Character: Frank
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected...
Naming the Names
Character: Jack
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that......
The Late Nancy Irving
Character: Tony Graham
A famous US golfer with an extremely rare blood type is taken to a private hospital after falling ill. Her recovery prolongs and she befriends the people there. One day, she sees a TV news report on her death and realizes she's trapped....
Love Match
Character: Bob
Rehana is studying for her A-levels. She is a Muslim and her father thinks it's time he arranged a marriage for her. But Rehana has other ideas.......