Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 19, 1937
Died
Jul 14, 2020
Place of Birth
Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
Credits
96 titles
Maurice Roëves
Biography
John Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a British actor. His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans. In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Murder: The Third Voice
Macbeth
Menteith
Luna
(Jacob) Doctor
Harrigan
Billy Davidson
Case Histories
Ray
Chain Reaction
Making The Last of the Mohicans
Self
Brighton Rock
Chief Inspector
The Damned United
Jimmy Gordon
Fast Track: No Limits
Schmitty
Hallam Foe
Raymond
Skins
Alex
The Dark
Dafydd
Solid Air
Robert Houston
Family
Ken
Waking the Dead
Vinnie Peverell
The Sight
Det. Pryce's boss
Beautiful Creatures
Ronnie McMinn
Forgive and Forget
Michael O'Neil
The Acid House
God
Vanity Fair
Captain MacMurdo
David
Joab
David
Joab
Hillsborough
Chf Supt. Duckenfield
Moses
Zerack
Judge Dredd
Warden Miller
919 Fifth Avenue
Patrick
The Negotiator
Eddie Gemonill
A Touch of Frost
Stuart Mackintosh
The Last of the Mohicans
Colonel Munro
Spender
Mal Balmer
Hidden Agenda
Harris
The Big Man
Cam Colvin
El C.I.D.
Charlie
Baywatch
Unreported Incident
Jack
The Play on One
Jack Lawrence
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Romulan Captain
Jake and the Fatman
Tattooist
The New Statesman
Ken Price
Tutti Frutti
Vincent Diver
Casualty
Carl Jackson
Lytton's Diary
Maxim
Murder, She Wrote
Police Captain
Hunter
Michael Mullenby
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Stotz
Heather Ann
John Lewis
Remington Steele
Angus Whitewood
Cheers
Sean
Who Dares Wins
Major Steele