Bill Thomas (actor)
Introduction '''Bill Thomas''' (born 1952) is an English stage and screen actor.
Career He was Tom Henshall in the BBC series ''Cutting It'' and Charles Quance in the classic BBC serial ''The House of Eliott'', had the lead role the feature film ''Weak at Denise'' and ''Syrup'' (which was nominated for an Academy Award for best short life action feature in 1994). A recent return to the stage saw him playing Ironside, in ''An English Tragedy'', a new play by Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood. A generation of young adults know him as Mr Tucknott the pompous and long suffering bank manager in the classic ''Bodger and Badger'' series on BBCTV.His previous stage work includes the lead role in ''Dragon'' in the Olivier Theatre as a member of the Royal National Theatre, a remarkable and innovative production by the accomplished director Ulz, after working together at Nottingham Playhouse. He was Arturo UI in ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'', directed by David Gilmore at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and went on to lead roles in repertory for much his early career, having five children in the process with his wife, whom he met at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke in his first job out of Rose Bruford College. He was 23 and she was in the sixth form at a local school and worked as a volunteer usherette.He has also had sculpture exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, where he has lived for most of his life. He has a long connection with the Theatre Royal, Stratford, E15, where with Jeff Teare and Patrick Prior he pioneered a series of political dramas, developing and performing leading roles in satirical attacks on Margaret Thatchers government. The same team produced pantomimes for many years during the 1980s and 90's which set a standard in British Theatre for integrity and quality.His recent TV work has included spells in ''Emmerdale'' and ''Doctors'', ''Heartbeat'' and two films with director Norman Hull based on true life events that revolve around the crimes of unlikely individuals, The Canoe Man and the Antiques Rogueshow, and has completed filming on Abrahams Point with Mackenzie Crook and Harriet Walter.
Selected film and television work     Year    Production    Part    watch clip: 2006 ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' Phil Cooper Episode: "The Cave Woman" 2010 ''The Sky in Bloom'' Branick Hammond - trafficking women and runs brothels 2010 ''Merlin - series 3'' Cylferth - sword maker and magician 2010 ''Doctors'' Hairy Potter (wigmaker won't take his medicine)  2010 ''Prices to Pay'' The Norfolk Farmer who shot a burglar  2009 ''The Canoe Man'' Sampson - surely campsite manager 2009 ''The Bill'' Charles Greene (nice neighbour helps victim)  2009 ''Heartbeat'' Richards the Station Master - attacked by dog, pigeons and a fire extinguisher 2009 ''Emmerdale'' Ernest Amplethorpe - impassioned lover thumps the Bishop etc. 2008 ''Abrahams Point'' Bob - boss of restoration company who befriends main man 2008 ''Wire in the Blood'' John Rowland - paranoiac neighbour of main man 2008 ''Antiques Rogueshow'' Fitch - the neighbour who blabs to the tabloids 2008 ''Trial and Retribution VIII'' Norman Gladstone - Police bureaucrat 2007 ''Messiah V'' Harry Fullerton - flower seller, bereaved husband and father 2007 ''Midsomer Murders'' Derek Wildacre - newly widowed and grieving 2006 ''New Tricks'' Evans - imprisoned for 20 years for a crime he did not commit, released after a retired policeman takes up his case. 2006 ''City Lights'' Mr Youd - employs his daughters boyfriend and pal to dig a pond, lives to regret it. 2006 ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' Mr Chater - Eccentric Water Diviner helps find a body. 2003-6 ''Cutting It'' Tom Henshall - 20+ episodes as dad to three girls who set up a hairdressers. Has affair with pornstar etc. Gross wife. 2006 ''Foyles War'' Willis the Air raid warden - finds a body with a knife in it in debris of bombed houseIn 2017 Thomas played Dr. Mazery in ''Loving Vincent''.
Appearances in theatre * Played Ironside the prison Warder in a new play by Oscar-winning writer Ronald Harwood AN ENGLISH TRAGEDY - Watford Palace Theatre. * Burgomeister (lead) in DRAGON in the Olivier - Royal National Theatre * Arturo Ui in THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI - Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
External links *  Bill Thomas home page* *  Spotlight*  Personal Management