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Gordon Salkilld
St. Pancras, London, England, UK
Gordon Salkilld was an English supporting actor best known for his portrayal of carpenter Jack Wood in the 1970s BBC cult series Survivors. He also gained fame in Red Dwarf: seri…
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Gordon Salkilld was an English supporting actor best known for his portrayal of carpenter Jack Wood in the 1970s BBC cult series Survivors. He also gained fame in Red Dwarf: series 2, episode 2 as Gordon—the incredibly intelligent computer aboard the S.S. F Scott Fitzgerald, who is involved in a chess game with Holly—a part specially written for him by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with whom he had previously worked on the Radio 4 series Wrinkles, and as Petty Officer Parker in BBC children's series The Doombolt Chase. He also made appearances in Thriller; episode 'The Double Kill' (1975), A Touch of Frost, A Very Peculiar Practice, Jeeves and Wooster, Shelley, Ever Decreasing Circles, Juliet Bravo, Never the Twain and Only Fools and Horses. Salkilld was active on the stage. He directed and starred in a production of Tom Stoppard's After Magritte at the Prince of Wales, Wimbledon in 1974. He appeared on the stage in a production of Puss in Boots at Tunbridge Wells in 1974; a reviewer wrote that Salkilld "was an amusing Dame".
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1993
Royal Celebration
Movie Neighbour
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1993
Frank Stubbs Promotes
TV show 2nd Journalist
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1992
A Touch of Frost
TV show Patient
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1991
Close My Eyes
Movie Hotel Porter
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1991
Under Suspicion
Movie Prison Governor
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1991
Five Children and It
TV show Police Inspector
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1990
Jeeves and Wooster
TV show Station Master
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1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV show Commissionaire
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1988
The Franchise Affair
TV show Bus Inspector
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1988
Red Dwarf
TV show Gordon
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1987
Cause Célèbre
Movie Foreman of the Jury
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1987
Two of Us
Movie Car Driver
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1986
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV show Salop
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1986
Hard Travelling
Movie Ticket Clerk
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1985
EastEnders
TV show Driver
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1984
The Prisoner of Zenda
TV show Second Customs Official
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1982
Ties
Movie Father
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1982
Fame Is the Spur
TV show Chairman
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1981
Never the Twain
TV show Desk Clerk
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1979
Terry and June
TV show Lorry Driver
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1978
The Playbirds
Movie Police Photographer
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1977
A Sharp Intake of Breath
TV show Barman
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1976
Mike Yarwood In Persons
TV show
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1975
Poldark
TV show Ezekiel
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1975
Survivors
TV show Jack
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1974
Happy Ever After
TV show
