Colin Buchanan is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 actor who is best known for playing Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)

Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...

. He has also appeared in All Quiet on the Preston Front

All Quiet on the Preston Front

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(later called Preston Front), The Bill

The Bill

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, Between the Lines, Dangerfield

Dangerfield (TV series)

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, Heartbeat, Space Island One

Space Island One

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and Brief Encounters

Brief Encounters

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and A Touch of Frost. He starred in the television movie of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1996) as Mark Easterbrook. He also starred as Freddie Musgrave in Catherine Cookson's The Secret

The Secret

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(1999), had a featured role in Witness to Hitler (1994), a supporting role in the feature movie Red Hot (1994), also starring Donald Sutherland and Balthazar Getty. Another BBC TV role Buchanan had was as the aristocratic seducer of Moll, in The Life and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders. In 2009 he co-starred in the CBC TV film Diverted

Diverted

This article is about the movie. For other uses, see DiversionDiverted is a 2009 CBC made-for-TV movie. It was directed by Alex Chapple. The movie was written by Tony Marchant.- Synopsis:...

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Colin Buchanan narrated several Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...

audiobooks, including Deadheads and Exit Lines.

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