David Hayman's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Paradise (UK) Jonas Franks Trial and Retribution (UK) Det.Chief S… Enemy at the Door (UK) Oberleutnan… Fame is the Spur (UK) Arnold Ryer… It'll All Be Over In Half An Hour (UK) Various Cha…

Main Movie Roles 2008 - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 2007 - Flood 2005 - Where the Truth Lies 2004 - Gladiatress 2001 - The Tailor of Panama 2000 - Vertical Limit 2000 - Ordinary Decent Criminal 1999 - The Lost Son 1998 - Legionnaire 1998 - My Name Is Joe 1997 - Twin Town 1997 - The Jackal 1997 - The Boxer 1997 - Smilla's Sense of Snow 1995 - Rob Roy 1987 - Hope and Glory 1986 - Murphy's Law 1981 - Eye of the Needle

BIOGRAPHY:

David Hayman (born 9 February 1948) is a Scottish film and television actor and director, best known for his role as DCS Mike Walker in ITV drama Trial and Retribution. He also a prominent supporter of the SNP's callHayman studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He began his acting career at the Citizens' Theatre in the city, playing a variety of roles, including Hamlet, Figaro and Al Capone. He gained national prominence playing notorious Barlinnie Prison convict turned sculptor, Jimmy Boyle, in the film A Sense of Freedom. After this film he focused on playing character roles rather than the lead. His long list of film credits include appearances supporting Pierce Brosnan in The Tailor of Panama, Bruce Willis in The Jackal and Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal. He also appeared in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Hayman is also well known for his television appearances, most notably as Chief Supt. Michael Walker in Lynda La Plante's long running Trial & Retribution sequence of crime thriller mini-series which recently finished shooting its 10th series. He has also had success in directing film and TV productions. Silent Scream is a return to a study of convicts in Barlinnie Prison, examining the life of convicted murderer Larry Winters. The film was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] Later followed The Hawk, starring Helen Mirren as a woman who begins to suspect that her husband is a serial killer. More recently, The Near Room is a dark and disturbing film about child abuse and corruption set in Glasgow.
Hayman was awarded the City of Glasgow's gold medal in 1992, for outstanding services to the performing arts. In 2001 he founded the humanitarian charity Spirit Aid which is dedicated to children of the world whose lives have been devastated by war, genocide, poverty, abuse or lack of opportunity at home and abroad. Hayman is currently Head of Operations of the charity which undertakes humanitarian relief projects from Kosovo to Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Malawi and South Africa.
Hayman is currently working on production of a biopic of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.
He has a distinct scar over his left eye, which he chose to use as character makeup, along with a shaved head, for his part in the Trial & Retribution series.
In 2009 he appeared in an episode of the British television series Robin Hood.
He is a supporter of Celtic F.C..
In September 2011, Hayman hosted a documentary reconstructing the unsolved murders of Glasgow serial killer Bible John, who murdered three young woman in the late 1960s. The documentary was named In Search of Bible John, and looked at the evidence which links Peter Tobin to the killings.
for Scottish independence.


TRIVIA:

• Discovered young Scottish actor, James McAvoy, according to McAvoy in a recent interview broadcast on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Hayman did a talk at McAvoy's school and after McAvoy thanked Hayman for sharing his insight into his long and interesting career, Hayman later asked McAvoy to audition for a role and, as McAvoy said, he "got the part.".
• He returned to the stage for the first time in 15 years in Six and a Tanner at Oran Mor (2006).
• Studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
• Humanitarian work is very important to him, and as such he started his own charity, Spirit Aid.