Terence Rigby
Born: 1937-01-02 in Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Died: 2008-08-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film credits including Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Dies, Essex Boys and Watership Down. On television, he memorably played police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running 1970s Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly: Taskforce, as well as starring in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Crossroads, Common as Muck and The Beiderbecke Affair.
Filmography
2008
- Flick as Creeper Martin
2005
- Colour Me Kubrick as Norman
2003
- Mona Lisa Smile as Dr. Edward Staunton
- Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War as Henry Caldicot
2000
- Essex Boys as Henry Hobbs
1999
- Plunkett & Macleane as Harrison
- Great Expectations as Pumblechook
- Simon Magus as Bratislav
- Great Expectations as Pumbleneck
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as Sydow
1998
- The Student Prince as Mr. Garter
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Ian Frasier
- Tomorrow Never Dies as General Bukharin
- Born to Run as Burke Flitch
1996
- Our Friends in the North as Berger
1995
- Funny Bones as Billy Mann
- England, My England as Captain Henry Cooke
1994
- Common As Muck as Dougie Hodd
1993
- The Young Americans as Sidney Callow
1992
- Heartbeat as Ronnie Brown
1991
- Performance as Fred Voles
1990
- Who Bombed Birmingham? as Det. Supt. George Reade
1989
- Scandal as James Burge
1988
- The Beiderbecke Connection as Big Al
- Testimony as Joseph Stalin
1986
- Lovejoy as John Hill
1985
- The Beiderbecke Affair as Big Al
- Lace 2 as Jo Stiarkoz
1984
- Lace as Jo Stiarkoz
- Travelling Man as George Jackson
1983
- The Falklands Factor as William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- The Sign of Four as Inspector Layton
1982
- Airline as Ernie Cade
- Bird of Prey as Duggan
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Doctor Watson
- Anyone for Denis?
- Anyone for Denis as Major
1981
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as Thomas Barlow (uncredited)
- The Muscle Market as Bernard
1980
- The Dogs of War as Hackett
- High Tide as Matthews
1979
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Roy Bland
1978
- Edward and Mrs Simpson as Stanley Bruce
- Watership Down as Silver (voice)
- Armchair Thriller as Matthews
- No Man's Land as Briggs
1977
- The Mayor's Charity as Mr. Brabazon
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Mr. Perivale Blythe
1973
- The Homecoming as Joey
1972
- Van der Valk as Karl Vessem
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Det. Sgt. Bates
- Get Carter as Gerald Fletcher
- Girl on the M1 as Jack
1970
- Play for Today as William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- The Old Banger as John Partridge
1969
- Softly Softly: Task Force as PC Snow
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Mr Babcock
- Callan
- Accident as Plain Clothed Policeman
1966
- The Informer as Lomax
1965
- Public Eye as Harry
1964
1962
- The Saint as Charlie Mason
1960
- Sunday-Night Play as Merchant's son
1959
- No Hiding Place as Chopper Martin
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Jack
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as PC Smith