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Owen Brenman

Owen Brenman

Acting
1956-12-17
London, England

Biography

English actor best known for his role as next-door neighbor Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, which ran for ten years (1990–2000) and was written by David Renwick. He subsequently played Heston Carter in the BBC drama series Doctors from 2008 to 2018.

Known For & Full Filmography30 Titles

#1Father Brown

Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes β€’ as Lord St John Sprockett

7.6 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

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#2Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes β€’ as Lester

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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#3Doctors

Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes β€’ as Heston Carter

4.8 / 10
SoapDrama

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.

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#4Mr. Bean

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes β€’ as Store Manager

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.

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#5Sister Boniface Mysteries

Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes β€’ as Captain Pargiter

6.4 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off.

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#6The Bill

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes β€’ Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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#7The Bill

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes β€’ as Solicitor

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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#8'Allo 'Allo!

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes β€’ as London Calling (voice)

7.8 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner RenΓ© Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

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#9'Allo 'Allo!

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes β€’ as Guard

7.8 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner RenΓ© Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

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#10Jeeves and Wooster

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes β€’ as Rev. Beefy Bingham

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

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#11Sharpe

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes β€’ as Witherspoon

8.0 / 10
War & PoliticsAction & Adventure

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.

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#12Cracker

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes β€’ as Haig

6.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

The wise-cracking Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

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#13The Upper Hand

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes β€’ as Nigel Brighton

7.2 / 10
Comedy

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.

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#14One Foot in the Grave

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes β€’ as Nick Swainey

7.7 / 10
Comedy

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series. The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.

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#15People Like Us

Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes β€’ as Graham Broadbent

8.3 / 10
Comedy

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.

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#16If You See God, Tell Him

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes β€’ as Wingrove

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Following a freak accident, Godfrey Spry develops a 30-second attention span, causing him to take ad slogans literally and leading to chaotic behaviour.

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#17Sharpe's Waterloo

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m β€’ as Witherspoon

7.3 / 10
WarActionAdventure

France, 1815. Sharpe seems to have settled down for life on a tranquil French farm with his new partner Lucille when the sudden news of Napoleon's return from exile compels him to go back to the army to fight in the great Battle of Waterloo. He joins the staff of Wellington's ally, the Prince of Orange. Once again reunited with the Chosen Men, Sharpe abandons his inept commander to organise the defence of the British key positions on the farm of La Haie Sainte and plays a courageous and important role in securing one of Britain's most famous victories.

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#18Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes β€’ Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.

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#19Health and Efficiency

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes β€’ Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Health and Efficiency is a British situation comedy that was originally broadcast from 30 December 1993 to 10 February 1995 on BBC1 for a total of 12 episodes over 2 series. It was written by Andrew Marshall, writer of the sitcom 2point4 children. The show starred Gary Olsen and Roger Lloyd Pack who both starred in 2point4 children, as well as Victor McGuire and Deborah Norton. The setting was a hospital and each episode was 30 minutes in length.

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#20The Jigsaw Man

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m β€’ as Policeman

5.0 / 10
Thriller

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

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#21Time Trouble

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m β€’ as Russian Embassy Official

8.8 / 10

A child chess prodigy from Liverpool plays the Russian world champion, at a time of crisis in both their lives.

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#22The Robbie Coltrane Special

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m β€’ as Self

6.5 / 10
Comedy

A comedy special starring Robbie Coltrane as a variety of different characters.

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#23One of the Hollywood Ten

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m β€’ as Dalton Trumbo

6.3 / 10
DramaHistory

Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

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#24British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m β€’ as Nick Swainey (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ComedyDocumentary

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.

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#25One Foot in the Grave: Starbound

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m β€’ as Mr Swainey

9.1 / 10
Comedy

The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and dealing with very effective herbicide.

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#26The Martins

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m β€’ as Teacher

5.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!

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#27One Foot in the Grave: Endgame

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m β€’ as Mr Swainey

8.0 / 10
Comedy

The Meldrews make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbors; Victor buys a haunted caravan and accidentally kidnaps the mother of an Indian millionaire.

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#28A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m β€’ as Therapist

8.8 / 10
DramaThriller

A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his local cinema as well as regular sessions with his therapist. A disturbance outside his flat leads to a strange encounter, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.

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#29One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m β€’ as Mr Swainey

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during a visit from a council health inspector, Victor learns that the horse manure he bought for his allotment may be radioactive

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#30An Affair in Mind

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m β€’ as Estate Agent

5.0 / 10
CrimeMysteryDrama

A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The writer doesn't go through with it and they break off. However, she's not done with him yet.

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