Stephen Boxer (born 19 May 1948) is an English actor who has appeared in films, on television and on stage and is best known for appearing in the
BBC One
daytime
soap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,...
DoctorsDoctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional city of Letherbridge, which started in 2000. It is produced by BBC Birmingham and screened on BBC One. It tells the story of the staff at the fictional Mill Health Centre and Letherbridge Universities Campus Surgery...
. He took a break from the show in mid-2008 to appear as
PetruchioPetruchio is the male romantic lead in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . Petruchio is a fortune seeker who enters into a marriage with a strong-willed young woman named Kate and then proceeds to "tame" her temperamental spirit...
in the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
production of
The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord...
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Boxer has starred in a number of detective dramas, most notably in the second, third and fourth installments of
Prime SuspectPrime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s. The screenplays for the first and third serials were written by Lynda La Plante, and in 1993 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America...
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Stephen Boxer (born 19 May 1948) is an English actor who has appeared in films, on television and on stage and is best known for appearing in the
BBC One
daytime
soap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,...
DoctorsDoctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional city of Letherbridge, which started in 2000. It is produced by BBC Birmingham and screened on BBC One. It tells the story of the staff at the fictional Mill Health Centre and Letherbridge Universities Campus Surgery...
. He took a break from the show in mid-2008 to appear as
PetruchioPetruchio is the male romantic lead in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . Petruchio is a fortune seeker who enters into a marriage with a strong-willed young woman named Kate and then proceeds to "tame" her temperamental spirit...
in the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
production of
The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord...
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Boxer has starred in a number of detective dramas, most notably in the second, third and fourth installments of
Prime SuspectPrime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s. The screenplays for the first and third serials were written by Lynda La Plante, and in 1993 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America...
. In children's television, he was co-presenter of
Get Up And Go! with
Beryl ReidBeryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE was a British actress of stage and screen.-Early life:Born in Hereford, England, Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in Manchester where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools...
and its successor programme
Mooncat and Co, where he was joined variously by the likes of
Pat CoombsPat Coombs was an English actress. Coombs was one of Britain's great character actresses, specialising in the portrayal of the eternal downtrodden female — comically under the thumb of stronger personalities. She was known for many roles on radio, film and television sitcoms...
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Pam AyresPam Ayres MBE is an English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and television.-Early life:Pam Ayres was born at Stanford in the Vale in the English county of Berkshire. After leaving Faringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant...
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Patsy RowlandsPatsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...
and
Wilf LunnWilf Lunn is probably best known for his weekly appearances on the 1960s and 1970s British television show Vision On demonstrating his latest inventions with Tony Hart and Sylvester McCoy....
. He had a featured role in the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
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A Royal ScandalA Royal Scandal is a 1996 British television docudrama produced and directed by Sheree Folkson. The teleplay by Stanley Price focuses on the ill-fated marriage of George IV and Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Dialogue from actual historical records reveals how each party tries to humiliate the...
. He also played Mr Smith in the 2005 adaptation of
Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842...
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