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Full Name John Maurice Roëves Born 19 March 1937 (age 79) ( 1937-03-19 ) Sunderland, England Spouse Vanessa Rawlings-Jackson (m. 2001) TV shows Danger UXB, The Nightmare Man Movies The Last of the Mohicans, Macbeth, The Acid House, Judge Dredd, The Damned United Similar Eric Schweig, Steven Waddington, Jodhi May, Russell Means, Wes Studi | ||
John Maurice Roëves (/ˈroʊ.iːvz/; born 19 March 1937) is a British-born Scottish film and television actor.
Roëves was born in Sunderland, County Durham to French-Canadian parents, and moved to Scotland in 1945. His television roles include The Sweeney (1975), Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of Our Lives (1986), North and South (1985), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993), the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998), EastEnders (2003), A Touch of Frost (2003) and Skins (2008).
He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough.
In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster.
He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. He appeared as a retired police superintendent in episode 3, 'Sorrow's Child', of TV drama, Southcliffe.
His film roles include Ulysses, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Day at the Beach, The Eagle Has Landed, Hidden Agenda, a major role as Colonel Munro in the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the first Judge Dredd film (1995), The Acid House and Beautiful Creatures.
In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air.