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Simon MacCorkindale
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (February 12, 1952 - October 14, 2010) was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. He spent much of his childhood moving around d…
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Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (February 12, 1952 - October 14, 2010) was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. He spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father serving as an Officer with the Royal Air Force. Poor eyesight prevented him following a similar career in the RAF, so he instead planned to become a theatre director. Training at the Theatre of Arts in London, he started work as an actor, making his West End debut in 1974. He went on to appear in numerous roles in television, including the series I, Claudius and Jesus of Nazareth, before starring as Simon Doyle in the film Death on the Nile. This proved to be a breakthrough role and allowed him to move to the United States, where he appeared in a variety of films and TV series including Quatermass, The Riddle of the Sands, The Sword and the Sorcerer, and Jaws 3-D. In 1983, MacCorkindale starred in the short-lived series Manimal as the lead character, Dr. Jonathan Chase, before taking up the longer-running role of lawyer Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s he directed and produced many stage, TV and film productions through his company Amy International Artists, such as the film Stealing Heaven (1988). Moving to Canada, he starred as Peter Sinclair in the series Counterstrike for three years. He returned to the United Kingdom in 2002 and joined the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty, appearing in the role of Harry Harper for six years until 2008.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2012
A Closed Book
Movie Andrew Boles
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2010
13Hrs
Movie Duncan
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2007
Blizzard: Race to the Pole
TV show Narrator
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2004
Nile
Movie Himself - Narrator
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2004
New Tricks
TV show Sir David Bryant
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2002
Adventure Inc.
TV show Producer
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2000
The Dinosaur Hunter
Movie Jack McCabe
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1999
Relic Hunter
TV show Tafik / Fabrice De Viega
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1999
The Girl Next Door
Movie Steve Vandermeer
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1999
Mentors
TV show Oscar Wilde
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1999
Wing Commander
Movie Flight Boss
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1998
Such a Long Journey
Movie Producer
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1998
Running Wild
Movie Walton Baden Smythe
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1998
Water War
Movie Peter Gregory
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1997
Earth: Final Conflict
TV show Dennis Robillard
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1997
Night Man
TV show Director
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1997
La Femme Nikita
TV show Alec Chandler
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1997
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Movie Jack Campbell
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1995
Family of Cops
Movie Adam Novacek
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1995
At the Midnight Hour
Movie Richard Keaton
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1995
The Way to Dusty Death
Movie Johnny Harlow
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1995
No Greater Love
Movie Patrick Kelly
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1995
The House that Mary Bought
Movie Director
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1990
Counterstrike
TV show Peter Sinclair
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1989
Twist of Fate
TV show Manley-Jones
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1989
That Summer of White Roses
Movie Writer
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1988
This Morning
TV show Self
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1987
Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet
Movie Mark Jamieson
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1986
Casualty
TV show Harry Harper
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1984
Obsessive Love
Movie Glenn Stevens
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1983
Natural World
TV show
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1983
Manimal
TV show Jonathan Chase
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1983
Jaws 3-D
Movie Philip FitzRoyce
- 1983
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1982
Robbers Of The Sacred Mountain
Movie Hank Richards
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1982
An Outpost of Progress
Movie
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1982
Matt Houston
TV show
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1982
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Movie Mikah
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1981
Falcon Crest
TV show Greg Reardon
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1981
The Manions of America
TV show David Clement
