Charles Dale
Born: 1963-02-04 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Known For: Acting
Biography
Charles Dale (born 4 February 1963) is a Welsh actor known for playing Big Mac in Casualty, Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street, Gary "Chef" Alcock in The Lakes and Clive Eustace in The Eustace Bros. He was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. From November 2007 until June 2016, Dale portrayed Big Mac, a hospital porter, an Emergency Care Assistant and a Healthcare Assistant in the BBC One series Casualty. He played Steve Lewis in the BBC Wales series Belonging (1999-2009). He has also made appearances in Lovejoy, Soldier Soldier, Bramwell, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil III, The Bill, At Home with the Braithwaites, Burnside, Steel River Blues, New Tricks, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Spaced, Rocket Man, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Unforgotten and Emmerdale
Filmography
2026
- Falling as Father Clarey
2025
- Death Valley as Terry Daniels
- The Crow Girl as Brian Cole
- Frankenstein: Legacy as Bob
- Protein as Stanton
2022
- Sherwood as Leonard Gibson
2021
2018
- Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators as Jacob Tark
- Requiem as Royce Evans
2013
- The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 as Self
- The List as Richard Van Meeren
2011
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2009
- A Bit of Tom Jones? as Factory Foreman
2006
- Robin Hood
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Maxentius
- The Street
- Thin Ice as Rocky
- Rocket Man
2005
- Towpaths of Glory as Craig Thorn
2004
2003
- The Last Detective
- Real Men as DS Barry Grimes
- The Eustace Bros. as Clive Eustace
- The Royal as DS Slingsby
2002
- Paradise Heights as Clive Eustace
- Real Men
2001
2000
- At Home with the Braithwaites as McGuire
- Belonging as Steve
- Secret Society as Paul
1999
- Spaced as Security Guard
- Animal Farm as Moses / Pincher (voice)
1998
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Gideon Blundell
1996
- Testament: The Bible in Animation as Sailor / Ninevite (voice)
1994
- Ready, Steady, Cook as Self - Guest
1993
- The Hour of the Pig as First Witness
- Genghis Cohn as Herr Heller
1992
- A Touch of Frost as Colin Fletcher
- The Last Romantics as Ambulance Driver
1991
- Henry VI: House of York as Young Clifford
- Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Vernon
- Henry IV: Part 2 as Poins
- Henry V as Le Far
- Richard III as Earl of Richmond
- Henry IV: Part 1 as Poins
- Richard II as Lord Willoughby
1985
- Pythons on the Mountain as Gareth (aged 17)
- Phoebe as George
1984
- The Bill
- Morgan's Boy as Gareth Price
1972
- Emmerdale as Karl
- Van der Valk as Simon Plesman