David Neilson
David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying cafe owner Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. In a break from the show in 2016, Neilson starred in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Home in Manchester. Prior to taking up the role of Roy Cropper, Neilson appeared in several TV shows including Boys from The Blackstuff, Resnick, Secret Army, Once Upon a Time in the North, Blue Heaven, Bergerac, Casualty and EastEnders, and in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies.
Secrets & Lies
as Man in SuitAfter her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth...
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Life Is Sweet
as SteveJust north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola....
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Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
as Roy CropperWhat could be better? A footballer's wedding, a week in the sun, a luxury villa in historic...
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Sons and Lovers
as EdgarAn adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
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Majority
as Len TaylorSingle mother and immigrant Sonia Diaconescu works at a sheltered accommodation scheme. A...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as BuckieOne man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and,...
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Knights & Emeralds
as AshbyA white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his...
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Coronation Street
as Roy CropperThe residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them...
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Heartbeat
as Barry JacksonSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Bergerac
as MoxtonBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Secret Army
as JelinekWorld War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...
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Boys from the Blackstuff
as LawtonAlan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian...
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