Ray Ashcroft
Raymond John Ashcroft is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as DS Geoff Daly in The Bill from 1996 to 2000, and Ronnie Marsden on Emmerdale from March to December 2003. In the late 1970s Ashcroft was the frontman of The Push, a Sheffield band. He started acting in repertory theatre before working in television and film productions. He played Ringo Starr in the biopic TV film Birth of the Beatles (1979),and he has also appeared in various television productions including Coronation Street. Ashcroft played DS Geoff Daly in The Bill from 1996 to 2000 before portraying Ronnie Madsen in Emmerdale (2003). In 2018, he portrayed Tom Jackson, a Yorkshire miner, in the play On Behalf of The People. In 2021, he played the lead role of Horace in the short film Mr Wong's Lullaby.
Birth of The Beatles
as Ringo StarrThe early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in...
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Criminal
as DC HarrisSimon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged...
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Shoot to Kill
as Constable Frederick RobinsinShoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the...
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New Mars
as Apollo 1Earth has been destroyed and the survivors have retreated to an underground city on Mars,...
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I Remember When We Danced
as HusbandA widowed husband comes to terms with the loss of his wife as he writes a speech for her funeral.
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Emmerdale
as uncreditedThe lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby...
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The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
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The Professionals
as TurnerThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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Heartbeat
as Jim SwabySet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Heartbeat
as Jim WainwrightSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Heartbeat
as Richard SmithSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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All Creatures Great and Small
as BowlingAll Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...
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Prime Suspect
as Tony's TeacherHighly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as uncreditedBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Steve LennoxInstead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her...
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Survivors
as DonWhen a deadly virus wipes out most of the world's population, a handful of survivors struggle to...
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The Long Shadow
as Mr. NealeDramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world,...
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Truckers
as BobFunny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed...
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The Royal
as SidFollows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...
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