Randal Herley

Acting
1923-09-23
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

Randal Herley was born in 1923 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Crown Court (1972), Taggart (1983) and Poirot (1989). He was married to Marjorie H. Grainger. He died on April 14, 2013 in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK.

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Clerk of Court

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#2Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Arthur Wakefield

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

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

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#3Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Colonel Potter

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

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

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#4Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Bickerstaff

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

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

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#5All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mr. Coates

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#6Pie in the Sky

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Mr Trapnel

8.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

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#7My Hero

Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.

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#8The New Statesman

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Mr. Mumford

7.5 / 10
Comedy

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

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#9Strangers

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Old Man

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

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#10Chandler & Co

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Partner

8.0 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Chandler and Co is a British television programme written by Paula Milne and produced by Ann Skinner for the BBC. Aired with two series from 1994 to 1995, it follows private detective Elly Chandler, alongside her sister-in-law Dee Tate. In the second series, Tate is replaced by Kate Phillips, a former client turned employee.

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#11Edge of Darkness

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Elliott

8.1 / 10
CrimeDrama

Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.

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#12Beau Geste

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Recruiting Colonel

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureWar & PoliticsDrama

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

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#13Mapp & Lucia

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Mr Causten

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Mapp & Lucia is a British television comedy, based on E. F. Benson's novels, beginning with the eponymous 1931 entry for series 1, with Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia for series 2. Mrs Emmeline Lucas (nicknamed Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was before they met Lucia.

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#14Die Kinder

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Club Member

6.8 / 10
Drama

Die Kinder is a six-part 1990 BBC Two political thriller written by Paula Milne and starring Miranda Richardson, with Frederic Forrest, Hans Kremer and Derek Fowlds in supporting roles. Sidonie Reiger sets out to rescue her kidnapped children. Enlisting the aid of private investigator Lomax, they find themselves caught between her husband's past as a a member of the Red Liberation Front, and the secret services of several countries.

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#15Cheeky

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Mr. Ellis

6.6 / 10
ComedyDrama

Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.

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#16A Is for Acid

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m as Elderly Resident

6.9 / 10
CrimeDramaTV Movie

Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.

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#17May We Borrow Your Husband?

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Mr. Ratcliffe

6.5 / 10
TV Movie

An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a relationship between a young couple and two interior designers.

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#18The Cold War Killers

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Morrison

8.0 / 10

A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.

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#19Fireworks for Elspeth

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Uncle Arthur

8.8 / 10
RomanceTV Movie

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.

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#20Getting Sam Home

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Drunk

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Three old chums agree to take the ailing Sam on one last trip to see his flousy girl-friend, Lily Bless Her, in the middle of the night.

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#21The Royal

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as George Heaton

7.8 / 10
Drama

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

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#22The Legacy of Malthus

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as (voice)

9.0 / 10

Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India, it takes on the international population "establishment", challenging the entrenched view that overpopulation alone is responsible for poverty and environmental destruction.

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