Simon MacCorkindale

Born: 1952-02-12

Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale 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.


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Death on the Nile

as Simon Doyle
Released: 1978-09-29

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered...

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Jaws 3-D

as Philip FitzRoyce
Released: 1983-07-22

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons...

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Wing Commander

as Flight Boss
Released: 1999-03-11

The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video...

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Juggernaut

as No. 1 Helmsman
Released: 1974-09-25

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs...

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The Sword and the Sorcerer

as Mikah
Released: 1982-04-01

A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to...

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13Hrs

as Duncan
Released: 2010-08-28

Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off...

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Family of Cops

as Adam Novacek
Released: 1995-11-26

Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to...

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Cabo Blanco

as Lewis Clarkson
Released: 1980-03-13

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking...

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The Riddle of the Sands

as Arthur Davies
Released: 1979-10-02

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon...

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The Dinosaur Hunter

as Jack McCabe
Released: 2000-08-05

A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.

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The Girl Next Door

as Steve Vandermeer
Released: 1999-09-02

There's someone peeping through windows so Arthur has been asked to watch the neighbour's...

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Obsessive Love

as Glenn Stevens
Released: 1984-10-02

A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.

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No Greater Love

as Patrick Kelly
Released: 1995-04-11

When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield shoulders...

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Manimal

as Jonathan Chase
Released: 1983-09-30

Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability...

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A Closed Book

as Andrew Boles
Released: 2012-07-13

Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt...

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The Quatermass Conclusion

as Joe Kapp
Released: 1979-10-24

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the...

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Falcon's Gold

as Hank Richards
Released: 1982-12-18

An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue...

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Visitor from the Grave

as Harry
Released: 1980-11-22

A former mental patient kills her would-be rapist, but his corpse returns from its secret grave....

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The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die

as uncredited
Released: 1983-07-15

Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark...

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While My Pretty One Sleeps

as Jack Campbell
Released: 1997-01-12

Delves into the rivalries and undercurrents in the world of high fashion.

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Macbeth

as Macduff
Released: 1981-01-01

An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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Beasts: Baby

as Peter Gilkes
Released: 1976-11-06

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of...

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The Way to Dusty Death

as Johnny Harlow
Released: 1995-09-25

The protagonist, Johnny Harlow, a world champion Formula 1 racing driver, who appears to have...

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Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette

as Simon Doyle (archive footage)
Released: 1978-01-01

Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".

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At the Midnight Hour

as Richard Keaton
Released: 1995-10-29

Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th...

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Romeo and Juliet

as Paris
Released: 1976-09-26

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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Running Wild

as Walton Baden Smythe
Released: 1998-07-26

A drama directed by Timothy Bond.

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Water War

as Peter Gregory
Released: 1998-04-18

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of...

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Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet

as Mark Jamieson
Released: 1987-06-18

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An Outpost of Progress

as uncredited
Released: 1982-10-01

A dramatic adaptation of a literary classic by Joseph Conrad, exploring universal themes dealing...

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Nile

as Himself - Narrator
Released: 2004-02-27

The longest river on the planet, the Nile flows from the heart of a continent uniting mountain,...

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Dynasty

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-01-12

The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch;...

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La Femme Nikita

as Alec Chandler
First aired: 1997-01-13

La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by...

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Earth: Final Conflict

as Dennis Robillard
First aired: 1997-10-06

Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there...

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Falcon Crest

as Greg Reardon
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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Casualty

as Harry Harper
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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New Tricks

as Sir David Bryant
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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Hart to Hart

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-22

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife,...

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Matt Houston

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Natural World

as uncredited
First aired: 1983-10-30

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...

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Relic Hunter

as Tafik / Fabrice De Viega
First aired: 1999-09-25

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to...

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Counterstrike

as Peter Sinclair
First aired: 1990-07-01

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on...

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Jesus of Nazareth

as Lucius
First aired: 1977-03-27

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely...

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I, Claudius

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-20

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies,...

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This Morning

as Self
First aired: 1988-10-03

This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle,...

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Hammer House of Horror

as Harry
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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Within These Walls

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-04

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...

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Manimal

as Jonathan Chase
First aired: 1983-09-30

Jonathan Chase was a British college professor at New York University who had the unusual...

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Beasts

as Peter Gilkes
First aired: 1976-10-16

Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a...

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Quatermass

as Joe Kapp
First aired: 1979-10-24

In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his...

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The Manions of America

as David Clement
First aired: 1981-09-30

Epic mini-series chronicling the lives of two 19th-century families -- one Irish, the other...

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Life of Shakespeare

as Sir Thomas Walsingham
First aired: 1978-06-13

Biography of William Shakespeare.

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Will Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-06-13

Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times,...

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The Doombolt Chase

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-03-12

The Doombolt Chase is a naval-themed British science fiction/action television series aimed at a...

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Blizzard: Race to the Pole

as Narrator
First aired: 2007-03-04

Series following the reconstruction of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's epic, but...

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