Tim McInnerny

Tim McInnerny
McInnerny at a presentation of Severance in 2006.
Born	(1956-09-18) 18 September 1956 Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK
Nationality	British
Education	Marling School
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present

Tim McInnerny (/ˌmækˈnɜːrni/ MAK-ə-NUR-nee; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on television and stage. Early in his career he featured as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the Blackadder series.

Early life

McInnerny was born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire to William Ronald McInnerny and Mary Joan (née Gibbings). He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, Stroud, and Wadham College, Oxford.

Career

One of McInnerny's first roles was the bumbling aristocrat Lord Percy Percy in the The Black Adder during the early 1980s. He reprised his role in the second series Blackadder II but declined to do so for the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode. The following year, he returned to the cast for the fourth series Blackadder Goes Forth as Captain Kevin Darling, the cowardly aide of Stephen Fry's General Melchett, alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson.

McInnerny has also starred in various films including Wetherby, 101 Dalmatians, where he was reunited with Blackadder co-star Hugh Laurie, and Notting Hill, written by Blackadder creator Richard Curtis. He also 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 a moving performance in Law & Order: UK (2011) as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter.

Theatre

Besides television, McInnerny also works in 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. He was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins. In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London and in 2010 Tiberius in a radio adaptation of I, Claudius.

Radio

In 2001, he played Geoffrey Pyke in the radio play Habbakuk of Ice by Steve Walker.

In 2004, he voiced Odysseus in the BBC audio adaptation of The Odyssey by Simon Armitage.

Other

In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. In 2006 he starred in One Day, a short film shown at various international film festivals.

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," said the Blackadder veteran. "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."

Since 2012, Tim has also been named as a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Wetherby	John Morgan
1989	Erik the Viking	Sven the Berserk
1995	Richard III	William Catesby
1996	101 Dalmatians	Alonzo
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	John Ferret
1999	Rogue Trader	Tony Hawes
	Notting Hill	Max
2000	102 Dalmatians	Alonzo
2001	The Emperor's New Clothes	Dr. Lambert
2005	Casanova	The Doge
2006	Severance	Richard
2007	Save Angel Hope	Backman
2008	The Devil's Whore	Joliffe
2008	Agent Crush	Sergeant / Operator	Voice only
2010	Black Death	Hob
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Patch Quartermain
2014	Autómata		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	The Black Adder	Lord Percy Percy
1984	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	John Clay Vincent Spalding	Episode: "The Red-Headed League"
1985	Edge of Darkness	Terry Shields
1986	Blackadder II	Lord Percy Percy
1987	Blackadder the Third	Topper The Scarlet Pimpernel	Episode: "Nob and Nobility"
1989	Blackadder Goes Forth	Captain Kevin Darling
1993	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Franz Kafka	Episode: "Prague, August 1917"
1999	Blackadder: Back and Forth	Archdeacon Darling the Duke of Darling le Duc de Darling
2000	The Miracle Maker	Barabbas	voice only
2002	Don't Eat the Neighbours	Terrapin
	Trial & Retribution series VI	Eric Fowler
2004	Spooks	Oliver Mace
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Reverend Leonard Clement
2004	Gunpowder, Treason & Plot	Cecil
2006	The Line of Beauty	Gerald Fedden	TV miniseries
2008	Doctor Who	Klineman Halpen	Episode: "Planet of the Ood"
2009	Hustle	Judge Anthony Kent
2009	Inspector George Gently	Geoffrey Pershore	Episode: "Gently Through the Mill"
2010	Midsomer Murders	Hugh Dagleish
2011	Law & Order: UK	Simon Bennett	Episode: "Haunted"
	Twenty Twelve	Tony Ward	Episode No. 1.6
	The Body Farm	Richard Warner	Episode "You've Got Visitors"
2012	The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff	Harmswell Grimstone	Episodes: "No. 1.1", "No. 1.2", "No. 1.3"
	New Tricks	Stephen Fisher	Episodes "A Death in the Family" and "Part of a Whole"
2014	Castles in the Sky	Churchill
	Outlander	Father Bain

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Headlong	Tony Churt

External links

• Tim McInnerny at IMDb