Simon Chandler

AKA:

0.5125

1953-01-01

England, UK

Biography

Crew Roles

Director of Photography

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {84}

Merry (voice)

1978-11-15 6.601

The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth. ...

Genre :Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

Mayor of Grasse

2006-09-13 7.365

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he ...

Genre :Crime, Fantasy, Drama

David Nelson

1984-05-04 6.7

The Bounty

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find tropical paradise and unlimited sex. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History

Mr. Wells

2004-10-22 7.165

Vera Drake

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family. ...

Genre :Drama

Hawkins

1997-11-14 6.4

The Man Who Knew Too Little

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Action

Lucentio

1980-10-23 7.8

The Taming of the Shrew

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Digby Seton

1993-01-02 6.5

Unnatural Causes

Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a d ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Maj. Irvine

2001-01-02 5.6

Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any r ...

Genre :Drama, War

Nigel

1979-02-05 5.9

Who's Who

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious frie ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Paul

1989-03-19 0

Sitting Targets

Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back... ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Presenter

1989-03-05 0

Here Is the News

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Paul

1991-04-07 2

Aimée

A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock p ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Paul Jones

2022-08-12 6.342

Rogue Agent

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice. ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama

Lord Dawson

2010-11-26 7.735

The King's Speech

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dr ...

Genre :Drama, History

1980-04-24 7.1

The Imitation Game

Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code. ...

Genre :Drama, War

Sir Augustus Wall Callcott

2014-10-31 6.539

Mr. Turner

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him. ...

Genre :History, Drama

John Taylor

2014-11-07 7.837

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jan ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Jonathan

1981-08-05 0

Friends and Other Lovers

Traces the history of Anna who leaves school and becomes a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at college in Oxford. ...

Genre :

Patrick Battle

1982-07-17 0

The Breadwinner

Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted. ...

Genre :

Prestwick

2001-01-01 4.429

Gentlemen's Relish

The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his ho ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sidney Rawle

2018-02-09 5.942

The Mercy

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to b ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure

Cabinet Minister

2011-12-26 6.357

The Iron Lady

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Doctor

1999-01-01 2

Milk

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family me ...

Genre :Comedy

Micky

1980-03-20 0

"If Only..."

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky. ...

Genre :

Barnaby Jones

2017-03-19 6.4

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed. ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

David Hogarth

2017-04-21 6.7

Letters from Baghdad

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today. ...

Genre :Documentary

Pvt. Simmonds

1977-06-15 7.212

A Bridge Too Far

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Lieutenant

1981-04-29 4.5

If You Go Down in the Woods Today

A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Mary's Father

2005-11-18 5.09

Stoned

A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band. ...

Genre :Drama

Hospital Parent

1997-12-18 4.875

Spice World

World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans. ...

Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Music

Surgeon

2010-03-09 0

Critical Eye

Miserable critic, Brian Tanner, is famous for his vicious film reviews on his TV show Critical Eye. Over the years, he's grown to hate pretty much everything he sees, including his wife. ...

Genre :Drama

Iain Ill

1997-11-14 5.762

Incognito

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to c ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Romance, Drama

Fenton

1982-12-28 8

The Merry Wives of Windsor

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missi ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

John Naps

2005-11-21 8

The Taming of the Shrew

A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader. ...

Genre :Comedy

Doctor

2007-11-17 6.729

Penelope

Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Alastair Logan

1990-02-07 0

Dear Sarah

Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Eros

1981-05-08 6.3

Antony & Cleopatra

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvi ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie

British Prime Minister

2002-09-19 5.029

The Stone Raft

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from t ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction

Father Sykes

2020-07-09 7.116

The Old Guard

Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal. ...

Genre :Action, Fantasy

Peter Simpson

1998-02-22 5.7

The Commissioner

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Nicky

1978-12-05 0

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West. ...

Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

1977-01-16 8

The Winslow Boy

The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain? ...

Genre :Drama

Doctor

1984-10-08 5.6

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money? ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Jonna

2000-12-26 4

The Sleeper

Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Chorus Boy

1982-04-25 7.272

Victor/Victoria

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Sir Ian Rochester

2001-11-26 6.7

Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a Hig ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama, Crime

Nick Cliffe

1984-02-26 7.1

Lace

A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Judge Instrell

2023-02-12 7.311

The Gold

On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Sir Merritt Grove

2023-04-20 7.575

The Diplomat

Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Fox

1989-10-04 0

Confessional

A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a mu ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

John Middleton

1992-05-12 4

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Aging historian Gerald Middleton is taciturn and methodical, a creature of habit who prefers his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and disapproving of his youngest son’s job, Middleto ...

Genre :Drama

Cliff Lyman

2013-04-25 6.839

The Politician's Husband

A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Reese

1987-08-02 6.3

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

2010-07-05 6.9

Identity

Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and ...

Genre :Drama

Lord Epton

1987-10-02 4

Pulaski

Pulaski is a British television drama series produced by the BBC in 1987. Created by Roy Clarke, the series was a parody of detective dramas centred around Larry Summers, an American actor starring i ...

Genre :Drama

2005-11-07 7.5

ShakespeaRe-Told

Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day. ...

Genre :Drama

2000-05-17 4.4

Urban Gothic

Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it none ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1976-09-04 8

The Duchess of Duke Street

Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Ho ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Hobbs

1985-11-11 5.7

Jonny Briggs

Jonny Briggs centers on the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero, his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members. ...

Genre :Family, Kids

Professor Petersen

2000-01-10 8

Life Force

Two psychic children, two parentless siblings, and their environmentalist guardian try to rescue the globally warmed world of 2025, protect vulnerable lives, and stay ahead of an oppressive government ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids, Drama

Richard Penfold

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

1977-09-18 6

1990

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the popu ...

Genre :Drama

Jonathan Canning

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Clement Attlee

2016-11-04 8.193

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famou ...

Genre :Drama

No. 47

1994-12-11 2.667

The Wimbledon Poisoner

Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lieutenant James

1981-10-12 7.9

Brideshead Revisited

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls ...

Genre :Drama

Rev. Farebrother

1994-01-12 7.8

Middlemarch

19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the progressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Doctor

2022-04-01 7.983

Slow Horses

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Canon Gilbert

2012-01-15 7.5

Call the Midwife

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. ...

Genre :Drama

Permanent Secretary

2005-05-19 8.028

The Thick of It

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants. ...

Genre :Comedy

Eric Potter

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Geoff

2001-03-21 7.257

Teachers

The chaotic lives, loves and drinking sessions of a group of hapless teachers. They might be qualified to teach, but they've still got a lot to learn... ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

De La Rue

1991-10-17 6

So You Think You've Got Troubles

Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company. ...

Genre :Comedy

Septon Eustace

2022-08-21 8.305

House of the Dragon

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins wh ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Nikolai

2022-10-20 7.685

The Peripheral

Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test… ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Nicky

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...

Genre :Drama

Richard Deverell

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Inspector West

2009-09-07 7.8

Land Girls

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Solicitor

2012-09-06 7.6

The Bletchley Circle

The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Mr. Cude

1982-01-08 7.6

Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted s ...

Genre :Drama

Leonard Evans

2002-10-27 7.9

Foyle's War

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later ser ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime

Denis Tregoning

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...

Genre :Drama

Dr Finlay

1986-11-16 7.488

The Singing Detective

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations. ...

Genre :Drama

Registrar Blake

2021-08-11 8.8

RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service

Based in Australia’s red heart, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend. This series cap ...