Ian McNeice's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Rome Newsreader Doc Martin (UK) Bert Large Dune Baron Vladi… Chef! (UK) Gustave Edge of Darkness (UK) Harcourt Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant Mr. Tapling Stay Lucky (UK) Franklyn By…

Main Movie Roles 2008 - Day of the Dead 2008 - Valkyrie 2006 - The Black Dahlia 2005 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005 - Oliver Twist 2004 - The Rocket Post 2004 - Freeze Frame 2004 - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 2004 - Around the World in 80 Days 2003 - Blackball 2001 - Town & Country 2001 - From Hell 2000 - The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz 1999 - The Cherry Orchard 1997 - A Life Less Ordinary 1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995 - Funny Bones 1995 - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain 1994 - No Escape 1992 - Year of the Comet 1990 - The Russia House 1989 - Valmont 1987 - Cry Freedom 1987 - 84 Charing Cross Road 1986 - Whoops Apocalypse 1984 - Top Secret!

BIOGRAPHY:

Ian McNeice went to Taunton School in Somerset and then had two years at the Salisbury Playhouse as an Acting A.S.M. before going to L.A.M.D.A. 1971-74. The next few years were spent in theatre, including four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, ending with "Nicholas Nickleby" on Broadway. His TV breakthrough was as Harcourt in the B.A.F.T.A award-wining series "Edge of Darkness" (1985). His American screen breakthrough was playing opposite Jim Carrey as Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995).


TRIVIA:

• McNeice's three children by 'Kate Nicholls (I)' (qv) - Travers, Angus, and 'Maisie McNeice' (qv) - live in the Bush, in Botswana, Africa. They have written a book called "The Lion Children" (to be published by Orion Books in September 2001). The book is about their life in the Bush with their mother and step father, who are lion researchers.
• Has been in one episode each of both British historical fiction military characters Richard Sharpe and Horatio Hornblower.