Aaron Harris

Aaron Harris

Acting
1952-09-06
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography

Aaron Harris is an English actor who is perhaps best known for his police officer roles, including Detective Garda Sgt. Myles Byrne on "Fair City" and DS Andy Dixon on "Wycliffe" between 1994 and 1996. He has also appeared in numerous other TV shows, including "The Bill", "Ballykissangel", "Holby City", and "Call the Midwife".

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1EastEnders

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Eamon

4.2 / 10
SoapDramaCrime

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

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#2Call the Midwife

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes as Conor Kelly

7.5 / 10
Drama

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.

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#3Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Barry

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#4Wycliffe

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as DS Dixon

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane. Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.

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#5Murphy's Law

Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes as Caplock

7.6 / 10
CrimeMysteryDrama

Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.

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#6The Spy

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes as Prime Minister Levi Eshkol

7.4 / 10
Drama

In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.

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#7The Paradise Club

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Reg Pyke

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

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#8The Chief

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as 'Red'

7.0 / 10
Drama

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

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#9Veronica Guerin

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Press Conference Reporter No. 1

6.7 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

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#10The Glory Boys

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as McCoy

6.1 / 10
DramaCrime

The Glory Boys is a three-part 1984 British political thriller miniseries produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, starring Rod Steiger and Anthony Perkins. In London, visiting Israeli scientist David Sokarev is targeted for assassination by two different terrorist organisations: one Irish, one Arab. After working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired killers from both factions decide to join forces to carry out their murderous assignment.

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#11The Last September

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m as Captain Vermont

5.2 / 10
DramaRomance

In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.

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#12Shoot to Kill

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Sergeant 'X'

8.8 / 10

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

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#13Night Train

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Charlie

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves into a Dublin boarding house run by a woman and her timid daughter. The timid woman immediately takes a shine to the new boarder and to his train sets, which they each use as an escape from reality.

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#14Crossfire

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Collins

8.8 / 10

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.

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#15Juno and the Paycock

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Johnny Boyle

8.8 / 10

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock," Dudley Sutton played the role of Captain Jack Boyle, alongside Frances Tomelty as Juno. The play, written by Seán O'Casey, is set in Dublin during the Irish Civil War and centers on the Boyle family's experiences with an anticipated inheritance and the subsequent fallout.

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