Midsomer Murders - "The Killings at Badger's Drift" - 2:00 pm Friday, December 12 on Ovation Arts Network

John Nettles (Actor) .. DCI Tom Barnaby

Born: October 11, 1943
Birthplace: St Austell, Cornwall, England

Trivia: Left university to perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Was narrator of BBC series Airport between 1996 and 2005. Appointed an OBE in 2010. Awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Plymouth in 2012. Patron of The Mare and Foal Sanctuary.

Daniel Casey (Actor) .. Sgt. Gavin Troy

Born: June 01, 1972
Birthplace: Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England

Trivia: Joined the Stockton Youth Theatre as a 14-year-old. Performed in the award-winning Dead Fish at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Reprised his role in the touring production of Dead Fish throughout 1994 and 1995. Played the role of DS Gavin Troy in Midsomer Murders between 1998 and 2003. Ran for Leukaemia Research in the 2003 Great north Run.

Jane Wymark (Actor) .. Joyce Barnaby

Born: October 31, 1952
Birthplace: Paddington, London, England

Trivia: Starred in the 1975 Birmingham Rep production of Equus. Played Sasha in a 1978 production of Ivanov at the Old Vic. Portrayed the role of Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders between 1997 and 2011. Performed in a world tour of Hamlet throughout 1978, alongside Sir Derek Jacobi. Is a Drama tutor at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Laura Howard (Actor) .. Cully Barnaby

Birthplace: Chiswick, London, England

Trivia: Made her television debut in the 1992 historical series Covington Cross.Landed her first leading television role in 1992, playing Tammy Rokeby in sitcom So Haunt Me. In 1996, appeared in drama series Soldier Soldier as Deborah Briggs. Is perhaps best known for playing Cully Barnaby in crime-mystery procedural Midsomer Murders between 1997 and 2011. Performed as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Making Mischief Season in 2016.

Barry Jackson (Actor) .. Dr. Bullard

Born: March 29, 1938
Died: May 12, 2013
Birthplace: Birmingham, England

Trivia: At the age of nine, presented radio broadcasts for Children's Hour. Worked as a stage hand at the Birmingham Rep at the age of 16. Moved to London to become an actor immediately upon getting his O-Levels. Worked as a fight director and stunt man throughout the 1960s, under the name 'Jack Barry'. Portrayed Dr George Bullard in Midsomer Murders from 1998 to 2011.

Rosalie Crutchley (Actor) .. Lucy Bellringer

Born: January 01, 1921
Died: July 01, 1997

Trivia: On stage since age 17, British actress Rosalie Crutchley established her predilection for gloomy, tragic roles early on. She set a precedent for her film career by being killed off halfway through her first film Take My Life (1948). Slight, dark and sharp-featured, Rosalie found herself typed as mystery women, wronged wives and sinister housekeepers; among her best film assignments were A Tale of Two Cities (1958) (as Madame LeFarge), and The Return (1974). Like many "pigeonholed" film actors and actresses, Rosalie Crutchley enjoyed a wider range of roles on stage and in TV.

Jonathan Firth (Actor) .. Michael Lacey

Emily Mortimer (Actor) .. Katherine Lacey

Born: December 01, 1971
Birthplace: Finsbury Park, London

Trivia: An attractive and talented actress who is as comfortable in historical dramas as in modern day thrillers and comedies, Emily Mortimer was born in Great Britain in 1971. Mortimer's father is author John Mortimer, best known for his series of Rumpole of the Bailey mystery novels, and she seems to have absorbed her father's literary influence -- before her career as an actress took off, Mortimer wrote a column for the London Telegraph, and she's served as screenwriter for an screen adaptation of Lorna Sage's book Bad Blood. Mortimer was a student at the prestigious St. Paul's Girls School when she first developed an interest in acting, appearing in several student productions. After graduating from St. Paul's, she moved on to Oxford, where she majored in Russian. Mortimer found time to perform in several plays while studying at Oxford, and while acting in a student production she impressed a producer who cast her in a supporting role in a television adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin in 1995. Several more television roles followed, including the British TV movie Sharpe's Sword, before she won her first film role, playing the wife of John Patterson (Val Kilmer) in 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness. Mortimer had a much showier role in the Irish coming-of-age story The Last of the High Kings, released later the same year, and in 1998, Mortimer played Miss Flynn in the TV miniseries Cider With Rosie, which was adapted for television by her father, John Mortimer. Also in 1998, Mortimer appeared as Kat Ashley in the international hit Elizabeth, and in 1999, she enjoyed three showy roles that raised her profile outside the U.K.: She was the ill-fated "Perfect Girl" dropped by Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, appeared as Esther in the American TV miniseries Noah's Ark, and was Angelina, the star of the film-within-a-film, in the upscale slasher flick Scream 3. In 2000, Mortimer was cast as Katherine in Kenneth Branagh's ill-fated musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, but the experience had a happy ending for her -- she met actor Alessandro Nivola, and the two soon fell in love and have been together ever since. That same year, Mortimer took on her biggest role in an American film to date, playing opposite Bruce Willis in The Kid, and 2002 promised to be a big year for her, with major roles in two major releases -- The 51st State, starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson, and a key supporting character in John Woo's war drama Windtalkers.

Julian Glover (Actor) .. Henry Trace

Born: March 27, 1935
Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England

Trivia: Trained at RADA, spindly British actor Julian Glover made his film bow as Lt. Matherton in the Oscar-winning Tom Jones (1963). Glover has since proven equally adept at chop-licking villainy and eccentric comedy relief. His movie roles include Shrdlu in The Adding Machine (1968), Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only (1977), General Veers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), King Richard in the made-for-TV Ivanhoe (1982), Walter Donahue in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Dr. Livesey in the Charlton Heston version of Treasure Island (1989) and King Gustav in King Ralph (1992). Julian Glover also appeared as megalomanic heavy Dr. Stefan Kilkis in the campy TV series QED (1982).

Selina Cadell (Actor) .. Phyllis Cadell

Born: June 21, 1953

Christopher Villiers (Actor) .. David Whitely

Born: September 07, 1960

Renée Asherson (Actor) .. Emily Simpson

Born: May 19, 1915
Birthplace: Kensington, London, England

Elizabeth Spriggs (Actor) .. Iris Rainbird

Born: September 18, 1929
Died: July 02, 2008

Richard Cant (Actor) .. Dennis Rainbird

Bill Wallis (Actor) .. Dr. Trevor Lessiter

Born: November 20, 1936

Diana Hardcastle (Actor) .. Barbara Lessiter

Jessica Hynes (Actor) .. Judith Lessiter

Born: November 15, 1972
Birthplace: Lewisham, London, England

Trivia: Formerly known as Jessica Stevenson (she officially changed her name in 2007 to her married name, despite having used her maiden name professionally for more than a decade), actress and screenwriter Jessica Hynes was born in Lewisham, England, but raised in Brighton. As a youth, Hynes gravitated to stage performance and enlisted in the National Youth Theatre ensemble when she was in her teens. Hynes broke into features at the age of 21, with a role in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Macon; several years of various performance activities then ensued, including a substantial part in a straight-faced nursing drama on British television and participation in a two-woman comedy act called "the Liz Hurleys" (opposite actress Katy Carmichael). Hynes' most substantial acclaim, however, arose from two long-running comedic stints on television: the role of nutty neighbor Cheryl in the situation comedy The Royle Family and an assignment developing, writing, and starring in the popular sitcom Spaced (1999), as Daisy Steiner, alongside Simon Pegg. Taking the success of these ventures as a cue, Hynes then branched out into feature films, with small offbeat characterizations in productions including Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Shaun of the Dead (done with several Spaced creators including Pegg), and Son of Rambow. Fantasy enthusiasts may also recall her voice work as Mafalda Hopkirk, who reprimands Harry via a letter from the Ministry of Magic for his improper use of magic in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Off-camera, Hynes remained fully active in stage pursuits and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her contribution to the play The Night Heron in 2003.

Avril Elgar (Actor) .. Mary Sharpe

Born: April 01, 1932

Cory Pulman (Actor) .. Terry Bazely

Marlene Sidaway (Actor) .. Counseller 2

Born: January 01, 1937
Birthplace: Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Jonathan Oliver (Actor) .. Counseller 3

Simon Godwin (Actor) .. Giovanni

Neil Conrich (Actor) .. Duty Police Officer

Barbara Young (Actor) .. Anne Quine

Born: February 09, 1931
Birthplace: Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Paul Putner (Actor) .. Policeman

Peter Jordan (Actor) .. Counseller 1

Nigel Asbridge (Actor) .. Vicar

Guy Normas (Actor) .. Grave Digger

Bill Willis (Actor) .. Dr. Trevor Lessiter

Anna Massey (Actor) .. Honoria Lyddiard

Born: August 11, 1937
Died: July 03, 2011

Trivia: The second child of actors Raymond Massey and Adrienne Allen, Anna Massey made her own film bow as the spunky daughter of Jack Hawkins in John Ford's Gideon's Day (1958). Anna was one of the few members of the female cast of the controversial Peeping Tom (1960) who was not murdered by psycho photographer Karl Boehm; conversely, she was the second victim of the necktie strangler in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) (she's the one whose murder occurs off-camera, as Hitchcock dollies from a second-floor flat to the street below). Maturing into a versatile character actress in her 40s, Massey had an amazing facility for appearing in TV redos of earlier films: she played Miss Ronberry in the 1979 remake of The Corn is Green, Mrs. Danvers in the 1981 remake of Rebecca, and Betsy in the 1985 remake of Anna Karenina. In 1994, Anna Massey was among the stars of the weekly British sitcom Nice Day at the Office.

Joanna David (Actor) .. Amy Lyddiard

Born: January 17, 1947
Birthplace: Lancaster, England

Trivia: Father went bankrupt when she was ten, leading the family to lose all their possessions. Won a scholarship to the Elmhurst Ballet School at 13, but failed to get into the Royal Ballet School years later. Danced on stage in The Ocean Revue with Roy Hudd in Clacton-on-Sea, inspiring her to enroll at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1960's. Adopted the stage name David, taken from her mother's first name, Davida. Big break was the BBC's Sense and Sensibility in 1971, after which she worked prolifically in costume dramas. Played Francesca Annis's daughter in Lillie in 1978, although she is only eighteen months younger. Underwent brain surgery in 1993 to correct a congenital malformation. Acted with daughter Emilia in Pride and Prejudice in 1995. Married Edward Fox in 2004 after 33 years of living together. Is a patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Action charity. Is vice-president of the Theatrical Guild. Contracted Ménière's disease in 2008. Has been friends with Downton Abbey co-star Dame Maggie Smith for over four decades. Is a trustee of the National Brain Appeal, the charity dedicated to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. Is a member of the RADA Council.

David Troughton (Actor) .. Brian Clapper

Born: June 09, 1950

John Shrapnel (Actor) .. Max Jennings

Born: January 01, 1942

Trivia: On stage, the classically trained, stark-featured English character actor John Shrapnel wove a forceful, occasionally even scabrous dramatic undercurrent into his evocations of the figures inhabiting the great tragedies of literature. Maintaining a frequent presence at theaters such as The Aldwych, The Warehouse, and The Piccadilly, Shrapnel earned enthusiastic notices for his supporting contributions to productions of Julius Caesar, The Greeks, Hamlet, and innumerable others. On camera, the thespian built up a massive resumé beginning in the early '70s and emphasized both television and cinematic work. Filmed roles in the early years (such as that of Petya in the 1971 Nicholas and Alexandra, or that of Hector in the 1982 Troilus and Cressida) seemed primarily an offshoot of his theatrical stock, but by the late 1980s, he expanded his repertoire to include more commercial (Hollywood-oriented) fare. On that note, Shrapnel did effective supporting work in films as diverse as How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996), and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). Producers still often reserved him for classical and/or historical roles, however, per his portrayal of Lord Howard in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).

Jane Booker (Actor) .. Laura Hutton

Born: May 09, 1956

Judith Scott (Actor) .. Sue Clapper

Robert Swann (Actor) .. Gerald Hadleigh

Born: March 18, 1945

Trivia: British actor Robert Swann played supporting roles on-stage and in a few feature films. He was frequently cast as a villain or other unlovable character.

Una Stubbs (Actor) .. Selina Jennings

Born: May 01, 1937
Birthplace: Hinckley

Annoushka Le Gallois (Actor) .. Barbara Neale

Nancy Lodder (Actor) .. Edie Carter

Daniel Newman (Actor) .. Tom Carter

Born: June 14, 1981

Marcus Rogers (Actor) .. Denzel

Zoot Lynam (Actor) .. Collar

Mark Bagnall (Actor) .. Boreham

John Bardon (Actor) .. Mr. Belgrove

Born: August 25, 1939

Jacqueline Morgan (Actor) .. Miss Panter

Timothy Bateson (Actor) .. James Jocelyne

Born: April 03, 1926
Died: September 16, 2009

Jay Barrymore (Actor) .. Liam

Murray Ewan (Actor) .. Liam's Father

David Maybrick (Actor) .. Policeman 3

Brian Parr (Actor) .. Mr. Baker

Bryan Burdon (Actor) .. Barman

Renée Ashershon (Actor) .. Emily Simpson

Born: May 19, 1920

Trivia: Renee Ashershon made her stage bow at age 15 in John Gielgud's theatrical troupe. The most fondly remembered of her film appearances was the French-speaking princess Katherine in the climactic scenes of Olivier's Henry V (1945). Renee Ashershon was the widow of actor Robert Donat, whom she married in 1953.

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift

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The Killings at Badger's Drift