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40
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
David Fleeshman
Acting
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Movies: 11Series: 29
TMDB ID: 1215335
IMDb ID: nm0281418
Known for: Acting
Born: July 11, 1952
Age: 74
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1976 - 2022
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 7.17
Wikidata: Q23883391
Biography
David Fleeshman (born 11 July 1952) is a British actor, broadcaster, drama lecturer and theatre director with experience in film, radio, television, theatre and commercials. Fleeshman was born on 11 July 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Rosina and William Fleeshman. His family was Jewish. He trained at The Birmingham Theatre School making his stage debut was in 1973 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1974 he took a position as actor/assistant stage manager at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and has also been an associate director of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre. In 1978 he married actress Sue Jenkins, who played Gloria Todd on Coronation Street, 1985β1988, and Jackie Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, 1991β2001. They have three children all currently working in the acting profession: Emily Fleeshman, Richard Fleeshman and Rosie Fleeshman. Fleeshman has appeared in and directed numerous plays around the UK and abroad, including Arthur Miller's The Price, for which he won best actor in a supporting role at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards in 2005. As a theatre director, he directed the European premiere of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and the regional premiere of My Night With Reg, which won best production at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. Fleeshman's major television roles include Boys from the Blackstuff, Edge of Darkness, Silent Witness, and Trial & Retribution, comedy classics such as Only Fools and Horses and A Bit of a Do, as well as stints in Coronation Street, Brookside, Doctors, Emmerdale, and EastEnders. He has also recorded frequently for BBC Radio. Filmography includes Pink Floyd β The Wall and Unstoppable. From 2013 to 2015 he toured extensively with the Royal National Theatre's War Horse, which played to audiences at venues throughout the United Kingdom, Dublin and South Africa. During 2016 Fleeshman portrayed the judge in Channel 4's National Treasure and played the leading role Charlie Resnick in Darkness, Darkness at the Nottingham Playhouse. From 2016 to 2019, he directed the Christmas pantomimes Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan (starring Cannon and Ball and Chico Slimani), performed at Crewe Lyceum Theatre. In 2018 he was nominated by the Manchester Theatre Awards as best supporting actor for his role as Uncle Vanya.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Fleeshman.
as Station Guard
A Very British Christmas
2019 β’ Movie
as Yosef Kirschbaum
Disobedience
2018 β’ Movie
as Margolis
Christmas Lights
2004 β’ Movie
as St. Nevis Guard 2
Unstoppable
2004 β’ Movie
as Denis Healey MP (Labour)
The Falklands Play
2002 β’ Movie
as Renshaw
The Cater Street Hangman
1998 β’ Movie
as Enoch Taylor
The Luddites
1988 β’ Movie
as Innkeeper
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
1988 β’ Movie
as Jim Dalton
The Nature of the Beast
1988 β’ Movie
as Narrator
Realm of Darkness - Caves of Glass
1986 β’ Movie
as Man on Station
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982 β’ Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Fleeshman.
as Roger β’ 4 eps
The Teacher
2022 β’ Series
as Husband β’ 1 eps
It's a Sin
2021 β’ Series
as Mr Soames β’ 1 eps
All Creatures Great & Small
2020 β’ Series
as Judge β’ 4 eps
National Treasure
2016 β’ Series
as Judge β’ 1 eps
Accused
2010 β’ Series
1 eps
The Innocence Project
2006 β’ Series
as Developer β’ 2 eps
The Kindness of Strangers
2006 β’ Series
as Dad β’ 1 eps
Grownups
2006 β’ Series
as Landlord β’ 1 eps
North & South
2004 β’ Series
as George Williams β’ 1 eps
The Last Detective
2003 β’ Series
as Don Waite β’ 1 eps
The Royal
2003 β’ Series
as Edmund Bilyas β’ 1 eps
Believe Nothing
2002 β’ Series
as Malcolm Stackley β’ 1 eps
Spooks
2002 β’ Series
as Campeggio β’ 1 eps
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
2001 β’ Series
as DI Harwell β’ 1 eps
Bad Girls
1999 β’ Series
as Harry β’ 1 eps
Highlander: The Raven
1998 β’ Series
as Willis Fletcher β’ 5 eps
Trial & Retribution
1997 β’ Series
as Pedro Pedley β’ 1 eps
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 β’ Series
as Immigration Officer β’ 1 eps
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 β’ Series
as Laski β’ 1 eps
Heartbeat
1992 β’ Series
as Thomas Buss β’ 1 eps
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 β’ Series
as Innkeeper (archive footage) β’ 1 eps
The Jim Henson Hour
1989 β’ Series
1 eps
A Bit of a Do
1989 β’ Series
as Innkeeper β’ 1 eps
The Storyteller
1988 β’ Series