
David Calder (David Ian Calder) – English actor, born 1 August 1946 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, active since 1970 with over 110 credits. His most notable film roles include a Crewman in Superman (1978), Sir Robert King in The World Is Not Enough (1999), Roger Wilson in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Louis Stanley in Rush (2013), Hugh Bell in Queen of the Desert (2015), Mr. Fairchild in The Lady in the Van (2015), Terry Perkins in The Hatton Garden Job (2017), and Father Michael in The Last Front (2024). On television he is best known for Det. Insp. George Resnick in Widows (1983–1985), Nathan Spring in Star Cops (1987), Captain Edward Smith in Titanic (2012, ITV), and guest appearances in Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Hustle, Waking the Dead, A Touch of Frost, Call the Midwife (2018), and The Moonstone (2016). On stage he is a veteran of the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, with roles in Hamlet (as Polonius), King Henry IV (as Falstaff), and A Doll's House, and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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The titles people know David from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Rev. Fergus Penney · 6 episodes
as Father Michael
as Sir David King
as John Cobden · 3 episodes

as Archbishop George Carey · 2 episodes

as Great Uncle Thomas · 4 episodes

as Julius Caesar
as Harold Hamworthy · 1 episode
as Geoff · 1 episode
as Terry Perkins
as Secretary Bryce
as King Ev · 2 episodes
as Mr Fairchild
as Sir John Marsden
as Roger Wilson
as Lord Cawston · 3 episodes
as Andrew Lipton · 1 episode
as Monk 1
as Bishop of Grasse

as Winston Churchill

as Professor Robert Kerr · 5 episodes
as Sir Robert King

as Sir Paul Condon
as Harold Snelling

as Vaughan · 5 episodes
as George Hamilton · 1 episode

as Falstaff

4 episodes

27 episodes

as Stuart Baxter · 4 episodes
as John Lawrence

as Douglas

as Douglas · 1 episode
as Le Cul · 1 episode

as Maitre Verges
as Commander Nathan Spring · 9 episodes

as Dennis Barker
as Micky 'The Fish' Metcalfe · 1 episode

as General Von Heldorff

as John Marriott
as 3rd Crewman

as Hoffman · 1 episode
as Insp. Shannon · 1 episode

as Marmont · 1 episode

as Donald Dowd · 3 episodes
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