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Tim McInnerny

Tim McInnerny

British actor

Timothy L. McInnerny (/ˌmækɪˈnɜːrni/ MAK-in-UR-nee; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder.

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Early life

McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny.[1] He has one sister, Lizzy, who is also an actress. [2] He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976[3] after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.[4]

Career

Television

McInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (The Black Adder) and the second series (Blackadder II); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and returned to play Captain Kevin Darling in the fourth series (Blackadder Goes Forth), a character significantly different from the Lords Percy.

He had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. Recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK (2011) as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks (2012). In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.[5]

In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show I Love the '70s: "I think shows like Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour need to be remembered for what they were; truly fantastic examples of sitcom writing that hasn't been seen since. The content is unfortunate in the cold light of modern society, but that's no reason to stop praising the sheer brilliance of the writers that ITV had in its ranks during that decade."[6]

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Theatre

He played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.[10]

He was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.[11]

In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.[12]

Selected theatre performances

Music

In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work".[13] He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.[14]

References

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    "Tim McInnerny Biography". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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    "Lizzy McInnerny". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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    "Famous Wadhamites – Wadham College – University of Oxford". Retrieved 14 January 2017.[dead link]
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    Roberts, J F (2014). The True History of the Black Adder: At Last, the Cunning Plan, in All Its Hideous Hilarity. Random House UK. p. 23. ISBN 9780099564164.
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    "New photos from Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 7 "The Broken Man"". Watchers on the Wall. 1 June 2016.
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    "BBC Two – I Love the 1970s". Bbc.co.uk. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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    Nicholson, Rebecca (28 April 2022). "Ten Percent review – a perfectly pleasant if pointless remake of Call My Agent!". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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    Wiseman, Andreas (15 August 2018). "Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne Ballooning Pic 'The Aeronauts' Under Way in UK, Amazon Releases Striking First-Look". Deadline. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
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    Tim McInnerny at Rotten Tomatoes
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    "RockyMusic – The Rocky Horror Show (London Cast – The Whole Gory) (1990)". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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    "Production of Pravda – Theatricalia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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    "Theatre review: Othello / Shakespeare's Globe, London – Stage – The Guardian". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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    "This Woman's Work – Kate Bush Encyclopedia". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  14. [14]
    "Patrons & Judges". Norwich Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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