Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 12, 1952
Died
Oct 14, 2010
Place of Birth
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Credits
65 titles
Simon MacCorkindale
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Closed Book
Andrew Boles
13Hrs
Duncan
Blizzard: Race to the Pole
Narrator
Nile
Himself - Narrator
New Tricks
Sir David Bryant
Adventure Inc.
Producer
The Dinosaur Hunter
Jack McCabe
Relic Hunter
Tafik / Fabrice De Viega
The Girl Next Door
Steve Vandermeer
Mentors
Oscar Wilde
Wing Commander
Flight Boss
Such a Long Journey
Producer
Running Wild
Walton Baden Smythe
Water War
Peter Gregory
Earth: Final Conflict
Dennis Robillard
Night Man
Director
La Femme Nikita
Alec Chandler
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Jack Campbell
Family of Cops
Adam Novacek
At the Midnight Hour
Richard Keaton
The Way to Dusty Death
Johnny Harlow
No Greater Love
Patrick Kelly
The House that Mary Bought
Director
Counterstrike
Peter Sinclair
Twist of Fate
Manley-Jones
That Summer of White Roses
Writer
This Morning
Self
Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet
Mark Jamieson
Casualty
Harry Harper
Obsessive Love
Glenn Stevens
Natural World
Manimal
Jonathan Chase
Jaws 3-D
Philip FitzRoyce
The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
Robbers Of The Sacred Mountain
Hank Richards
An Outpost of Progress
Matt Houston
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Mikah
Falcon Crest
Greg Reardon
The Manions of America
David Clement
Dynasty
Macbeth
Macduff
Visitor from the Grave
Harry
Hammer House of Horror
Harry
Caboblanco
Lewis Clarkson
Quatermass
Joe Kapp
The Quatermass Conclusion
Joe Kapp
The Riddle of the Sands
Arthur Davies
Hart to Hart
Death on the Nile
Simon Doyle