Neil Pearson

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Known best for his roles as Dave Charnley and Detective Tony Clark on the respective English television series Drop the Dead Donkey and Between the Lines, Pearson is also recognized for his appearances in films such as Bridget Jones’s Diary and Fever Pitch.

After training at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, he made his London West End theatre debut in a 1982 production of the Joe Orton play Loot.

When not acting, he enjoyed playing professional Texas hold ’em poker and collecting and selling antique and/or rare books.

He grew up in London’s southern Battersea district as the child of an automobile repairman and a secretary.

Beginning in 2014, he co-starred with Nicola Stephenson on the popular BBC One series Waterloo Road.

Neil Joshua Pearson (born 27 April 1959) is a British actor, known for his work on television. He was nominated for the 1994 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for Between the Lines (1992–94). His other television roles include Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–98), All the Small Things (2009), Waterloo Road (2014–15), and In the Club (2014–16). His film appearances include all three of the Bridget Jones films. He is also an antiquarian book dealer who specialises in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the World Wars.

Pearson grew up in Battersea, London. His father, a panel beater, left home when he was five, and his mother was a legal secretary. He was a boarder at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, Suffolk, where he first learned to act. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1976 to 1980.

One of Pearson’s early appearances was in 1984 alongside Leonard Rossiter in Joe Orton’s play Loot at the Lyric Theatre in London; Rossiter died in his dressing-room during a later performance. He won a part in Hat Trick Productions’ sitcom Chelmsford 123 and also appeared with Hat Trick executive Jimmy Mulville in That’s Love. Pearson narrated Colin Wyatt’s animated series The Poddington Peas in 1986.

It was in the roles of associate editor and office lothario and gambling addict, Dave Charnley, in the sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey – another Hat Trick show – and of Detective Superintendent Tony Clark in the thriller Between the Lines (1992–94), that he made his greatest impact on the viewing public.

He strongly identifies with the British Left – having made a party election broadcast for the Labour Party for the 1994 European Elections, though he later supported Ken Livingstone when Livingstone ran as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in 2000. For many years he has also supported the National Council for One Parent Families, having written about his family background for the organisation, and also raised £32,000 for the charity on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Since then he has appeared in such varied roles as Dr Jameson in Rhodes (1998), Jack Green in the children’s serial The Magician’s House (1999), Trevor Heslop in Trevor’s World of Sport (2003) and John Diamond in A Lump in My Throat (2003). He has also been in several films, including The Secret Rapture (1993), Fever Pitch (1997) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001).He played Major Steve Arnold, the American interrogator, in “Taking sides” at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in 2003. He appeared in the 2006 Radio Four series Vent as Ben. He played the choirmaster Michael Caddick in the BBC drama All the Small Things in 2009. He also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders and Lewis – in the former, appearing alongside Drop the Dead Donkey co-star Jeff Rawle; and in the latter, again playing a gambling addict alongside Haydn Gwynne, another star of Drop the Dead Donkey – and played a prominent role in an episode of Death in Paradise in 2013.

Pearson was a judge on Channel 4’s The Play’s the Thing, which sought to find a play written by an unknown writer for a run in the West End. The winning play, written by Kate Betts, was called On the Third Day and opened at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London in June 2006. Pearson appeared in a touring revival of Sir Peter Hall’s production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times in 2006, and in a production of Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, in 2009.

He is a keen Texas hold ’em poker player and participated in the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe event in London. Pearson is also a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and regularly attends home games. In 2007 he assisted with fundraising to renovate the Bristol Old Vic Theatre.

Pearson is the author of a book on the Manchester-born publisher Jack Kahane, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press. He is a collector of rare drama scripts and in 2011 he opened an online bookshop specialising in theatrical material. He has a special interest in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the wars.

In the Inspector George Gently episode Goodbye to China (2011), Pearson acts as a former Sergeant of DCI Gently, who now has risen in rank above his former master. In 2014 Pearson became a series regular in Waterloo Road as new headteacher Vaughan Fitzgerald.

After obtaining a collection of original Hancock’s Half Hour radio scripts and realising that some of the corresponding recordings no longer existed, he conceived and subsequently co-produced The Missing Hancocks, a series of re-creations of selected wiped episodes for BBC Radio 4, which debuted in October 2014.

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