Rupert Graves
Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga. Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
V for Vendetta
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Damage
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Emma.
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as DI LestradeSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
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Maurice
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A Room with a View
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Fast Girls
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The Madness of King George
as GrevilleAging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in...
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Bent
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as Axel von dem BusscheA historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to...
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
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as NeilA bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal...
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as Eddy TaylorA romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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as Alan TerryInspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a...
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Intervention
as MarkAn eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for...
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as Narrator (voice)A male lion cub is born into a powerful pride and quickly establishes his dominance over his...
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as Narrator (voice)This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest...
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as uncreditedThe southern coast of Africa features an array of battlefields as diverse as the predators who...
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Mona
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as James LavenderA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...
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Sherlock
as DI Greg LestradeA modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Sherlock
as Self / DI LestradeA modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Spooks
as William SampsonTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they...
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Inspector Morse
as BillyInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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as Colonel John GarrettA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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12 Monkeys
as SebastianThe provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race...
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Law & Order: UK
as uncreditedAdapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and...
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as Adrian LeveneNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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Krypton
as Ter-ElSet two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton...
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The White Queen
as Thomas StanleySet against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught...
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Ashes to Ashes
as Danny MooreCrime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex...
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The Forsyte Saga
as Young Jolyon ForsyteEpic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the...
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as Nick SavageD.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them...
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as PrefectFollow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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The War of the Worlds
as FrederickIn Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life...
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Surface
as uncreditedA traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces...
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Wallander
as uncreditedThis drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a...
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Riviera
as Gabriel HirschAfter newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is...
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ShakespeaRe-Told
as ShakespeareFour of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
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McDonald & Dodds
as Gordon ElmwoodTwo detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown...
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Cleopatra
as OctavianCleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman...
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The Family
as John WarrenThis thriller follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after...
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Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as uncreditedCharles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series,...
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Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as George Villiers, Duke of BuckinghamCharles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series,...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Arthur HuntingtonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's...
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Garrow's Law
as Sir Arthur HillThe true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the...
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Son of the Dragon
as Prince of the NorthWhen the Royal Family decides to accept suitors for the hand of Princess Li Wei, a young thief...
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Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as DragutinA fearless rogue soldier, a former general and the U.S. President become pawns in a deadly...
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This World
as uncreditedThe series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the...
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The Burning Girls
as Simon HarperFollows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that...
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Case Sensitive
as Mark BretherickWhen Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of...
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Secret State
as Felix DurrellSecret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business...
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Fortunes of War
as Simon BoulderstoneFortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes...
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The Reunion
as Richard DegalaisThe story opens in the present day, at a high school reunion in the south of France where three...
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The Crimson Field
as Maj Edward CrecyIn a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women...
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as Nicholas WhiteleyValentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect woman, wife and...
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as Patrick StandishSet in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her...
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The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as HaplyThe Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on...
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Midnight Man
as Daniel CosgraveDisgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a...
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The Blonde Bombshell
as Dennis HamiltonThe biography of British 'Blonde Bombshell', Diana Dors.
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Putin, Russia and the West
as NarratorPutin, Russia and the West is a four-part British documentary television series first shown in...
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