Alan Gilchrist

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

#1Jeeves and Wooster

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Constable

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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#2Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Barnaby Shadwell

7.3 / 10
DramaCrime

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

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#3Kavanagh Q.C.

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Keith

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this has come at a price as his dedication to work has taken its toll on his private life… Going beyond traditional courtroom dramas, “Kavanagh Q.C.” uncovers the pressures of legal battles and the problems of defining the truth, providing a compelling representation of the euphoric ups and costly downs of success and failure in the legal world.

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#4Our Friends in the North

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Christopher Collins

7.7 / 10
War & PoliticsDrama

An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.

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#5Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Comedy

A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system.

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#6A Fatal Inversion

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Drug Addict

5.0 / 10
Thriller

Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.

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#7Jackson: My Life... Your Fault

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Hardy

3.7 / 10
Drama

Jackson’s father died when Jackson was a boy, and his mother now shelters her son, not allowing anyone else into their lives. When Jackson discovers a world of men outside their mansion and starts dating a cute cop, he is forced to decide. Remain a protected child or accept the risks of the outside.

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