
Maurice Roëves
Born March 19, 1937 · Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
John Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a British actor. His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans. In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Judge Dredd

The Last of the Mohicans

Escape to Victory

The Eagle Has Landed

Hallam Foe

The Damned United

Macbeth

Who Dares Wins

Fast Track: No Limits

S.O.S. Titanic

David

When Eight Bells Toll

Brighton Rock

The Dark

Hidden Agenda

Oh! What a Lovely War

Young Winston

The Big Man

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Beautiful Creatures

The Acid House

The Negotiator

A Day at the Beach

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

An Enemy of the People

Forgive and Forget

Ulysses

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

Harrigan

Making The Last of the Mohicans

The Sight

919 Fifth Avenue

Taste of Evil

Family

Twelfth Night

Hillsborough

The Journal of Bridget Hitler

Luna

Mackintosh
TV Shows

Murder, She Wrote

Magnum, P.I.

Baywatch

Play for Today

Skins

Hunter

Remington Steele

The Wednesday Play

Playhouse

Jake and the Fatman

Waking the Dead

Bergerac

A Touch of Frost

The Sweeney

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Dixon of Dock Green

Rumpole of the Bailey

Return of the Saint

The Play on One

Out of the Unknown

Doomwatch

Target

The New Statesman

Jason King

Vanity Fair

Case Histories

Paul Temple

Spender

Warship

Lytton's Diary

Danger UXB

Moses

The Chinese Detective

Inside the Third Reich

Tutti Frutti

Oil Strike North

The Nightmare Man

Scotch on the Rocks












