# Derek Newark

Derek John Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor in television, film and theatre.

## Career

Newark began his working life as a soldier in the Coldstream Guards before joining the Royal Artillery. However, he wanted to become an actor, and left the Army to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Newark appeared in a large number of film and television roles, including The Baron (1967), The Avengers (three episodes in the 1960s), Z-Cars (six episodes between 1969 and 1972), Barlow in the regular role of Det. Insp. Tucker (1974–1975) and various other minor roles. He appeared in episodes two to four of the first Doctor Who story An Unearthly Child in 1963. Later he appeared opposite Jon Pertwee in the 1970 story Inferno. Newark also played the role of Spooner, an ill-tempered former Red Devil turned professional wrestler in the series Rising Damp.
In the 1970s, Newark became more involved in the theatre, spending nearly a decade at the Royal National Theatre. While there he was part of the company that opened its current South Bank home and was a cornerstone of the residential company that worked in the smaller Cottesloe Theatre under Bill Bryden's direction. His most important roles there were Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the world premiere of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross where he played Shelley Levene (a role later played on screen by Jack Lemmon). At the National he also appeared as Malcolm in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, which transferred to the West End and then Broadway. He also created the role of Roote in Harold Pinter's play The Hothouse which premiered in 1980 in a production directed by the playwright.
Amongst later work on television, he starred in the second series of Juliet Bravo as Councillor Jack Winterbottom. In 1982, Newark played Martin Bormann in the TV series Inside the Third Reich. He appeared as W. C. Fields with Caroline Quentin in the 1983 Channel 4 play Hollywood Hits Chiswick
In the cinema Newark appeared as Jessard, Sgt. Johnson's (Sean Connery) sidekick in the police drama The Offence (Sidney Lumet 1972).

## Death

Newark died of a heart attack, brought on by liver failure after years of alcoholism, on 11 August 1998 in West London.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1964 | The System | Alfred | Uncredited |
| 1964 | The Black Torment | Coachman Tom | |
| 1965 | City Under the Sea | Dan | |
| 1965 | The Little Ones | Det. Wilson | |
| 1966 | The Blue Max | Ziegel | |
| 1968 | Where Eagles Dare | German Major | Uncredited |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Shooting Gallery Proprietor | |
| 1970 | Fragment of Fear | Sergeant Matthews | |
| 1970 | The Breaking of Bumbo | C.S.M Peters | |
| 1971 | Dad's Army | Regimental Sergeant Major | |
| 1971 | Venom | Johann | |
| 1973 | The Offence | Jessard | |
| 1974 | The Black Windmill | Monitoring Policeman | |
| 1976 | Escape from the Dark | Unknown | |
| 1987 | Bellman and True | Guv'nor | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Episodes |
| 1961 | Deadline Midnight | Mechanic | Episode: "Striptease" |
| 1962 | Probation Officer | Customers Officer | Episode: #4.12 |
| 1962 | Out of This World | Inspector Wright | Episode: ''Vanishing Act'' |
| 1962 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Trooper | 3 episodes |
| 1962 | Harpers West One | Jerry Barker | Episode: #2.15 |
| 1963 | The Birth of a Private Man | Jack | Television film |
| 1963 | The Plane Makers | Alf Skinner | Episode: "The Blunt Approach" |
| 1963 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | Fred George | 2 episodes |
| 1964 | No Hiding Place | Sgt. Wallis | Episode: ''Line of Fire'' |
| 1964 | The Villains | D.S. Brough | Episode: 'Victim'' |
| 1964 | Redcap | Mess Sergeant | Episode: ''It's What Comes After'' |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Private Postnikov | Episode: ''A Crack in the Ice'' |
| 1964 | The Chimney Boy | Sailor | Television film |
| 1961–1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Dragoon Sjt Private Varley Ward | 3 episodes |
| 1965 | Front Page Story | Joe Harwood | 13 episodes |
| 1965 | Knock on Any Door | Flynn | Episode: ''There's Always an Angle'' |
| 1965 | Sergeant Musgrave's Dance | Private Hurst | 3 episodes |
| 1966 | Softly, Softly | Alec Bridges | Episode: ''It Doesn't Grow on Trees'' |
| 1966 | The Likely Lads | Duggie | Episode: ''Love and Marriage'' |
| 1966 | Blackmail | Arthur Clegg | Episode : ''The Haunting of Aubrey Hopkiss'' |
| 1966 | Drama 61-67 | Sgt. Dangerfield | Episode: ''Conduct to the Prejudice'' |
| 1966–1967 | The Baron | Cavin Baggio Lucas | 3 episodes |
| 1967 | Emergency Ward 10 | Captain Leo Baring | Episode: "Mock Flight" |
| 1967 | Theatre 625 | Col. Karl Ernst | Episode: ''Firebrand'' |
| 1967 | Callan | Loder | Episode: ''You Should Have Got Here Sooner'' |
| 1967 | The Gamblers | Redgrave | Episode ''Read 'em and Weep'' |
| 1967 | The White Rabbit | Prison guard The | 2 episodes |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Sgt. Huber | Episode: ''The Stories of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn in the Flesh'' |
| 1967 | Vanity Fair | McMurdo | Episode: ''Vanitas Vanitatum'' |
| 1967–1968 | Man in a Suitcase | Maurice Rudy | 2 episodes |
| 1968 | Half Hour Story | Bill Bolton | Episode: ''Out of the Playground'' |
| 1968 | The Caesars | Agrippa Postumus | Episode: ''Augustus'' |
| 1964–1968 | The Avengers | Johnson Crawford Vickers | 3 episodes |
| 1968 | Mr. Rose | Thomas Lundy | Episode: ''Free and Easy'' |
| 1968 | The Champions | Kruger | Episode: ''The Final Countdown'' |
| 1967–1968 | The Saint | Carl German | 2 episodes |
| 1969 | Judge Dee | Corporal | Episode: ''The Curse of the Lacquer Screen'' |
| 1970 | Department S | Clark | Episode: ''The Last Train to Redbridge'' |
| 1970 | Manhunt | Henri | Episode: ''Break-Up'' |
| 1963–1970 | Doctor Who | Za Greg Sutton | 10 episodes |
| 1970 | Big Brother | Miller | Episode: ''There's Always a First Time'' |
| 1971 | The Ten Commandments | Bernard Williams | Episode: ''Be Lucky'' |
| 1971 | Paul Temple | Det. Insp. Hilton | Episode: ''The Quick and the Dead'' |
| 1971 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Pete | Episode: ''The Wedding Gift'' |
| 1966–1971 | Coronation Street | Detective Inspector Sharp | 6 episodes |
| 1971 | Dixon of Dock Green | Eddie Brown | Episode: ''The Fighter'' |
| 1971 | Jason King | Hartman | Episode: ''A Red Red Rose Forever'' |
| 1971 | The Persuaders! | Lloyd | Episode: ''That's Me Over There'' |
| 1968–1972 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Bert Gregson Dolan Wilf Hardiman (the manager) | 3 episodes |
| 1971–1972 | Budgie | Det. Insp. Bryant | 3 episodes |
| 1968–1972 | Z-Cars | Dunnock Matt Colley Harry Hayes | 6 episodes |
| 1972 | The Edwardians | Meadows | Episode: ''Baden-Powell'' |
| 1973 | The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | Bunter | 3 episodes |
| 1973 | Justice | Tom Bradley | Episode: ''After All, What Is a Lie?'' |
| 1973 | New Scotland Yard | Harry Logan | Episode: ''Where's Harry?'' |
| 1973 | General Hospital | Ronnie Singer | Episode: #1.87 |
| 1973 | Diamonds on Wheels | Mercer | Television film |
| 1973 | Spy Trap | Colonel Kretmar | Episode: ''Anything Legal Considered'' |
| 1973 | The Adventures of Black Beauty | Fletcher Bellows | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | The Protectors | Reece | Episode: ''The Tiger and the Goat'' |
| 1974 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colour | Mercer | 3 episodes |
| 1974 | QB VII | Mr. Graham | Episode: ''Part Three'' |
| 1974 | My Name Is Harry Worth | Mick | Episode: ''Don't Bank on It'' |
| 1974 | A Little Bit of Wisdom | Security guard | Episode: ''And I Mean That Most Sincerely'' |
| 1975 | The Two Ronnies | Det. Insp. Tucker | Episode: #4.1 |
| 1974–1975 | Rising Damp | Spooner | 2 episodes |
| 1974–1975 | Barlow | Det. Insp. Eddie Tucker | 15 episodes |
| 1975 | Churchill's People | Sir John Dudley | Episode: '' The Whip of Heaven'' |
| 1978 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Basil Delgado | Episode: ''Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade'' |
| 1978 | Born and Bred | Dawson | Episode: ''Ever So Goosey'' |
| 1978 | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | Mr. Hunt | Episode: ''Motorbike'' |
| 1979 | Return of the Saint | Wright | Episode: ''The Obono Affair'' |
| 1979 | Citizen Smith | Car salesman | Episode: ''The Big Job'' |
| 1980 | Bedroom Farce | Malcom | Television film |
| 1981 | The Antagonists | Engineering Officer | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Private Schulz | Publican | Episode: #1.3 |
| 1981 | Only Fools and Horses | Eric the Policeman | Episode: ''The Russians are Coming'' |
| 1981 | Juliet Bravo | Councillor Jack Winterbottom | Episode: ''Gorgeous'' |
| 1981 | Seconds Out | Joe Brindle | Episode: ''Round 7'' |
| 1982 | The Hothouse | Roote | Television film |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Martin Bormann | Television film |
| 1973–1982 | Crown Court | Robert Scard Leonard Hooper Sgt. Waxloe | 6 episodes |
| 1983 | Reilly, Ace of Spies | General Stoessel | Episode: ''Prelude to War'' |
| 1983 | Dramarama | Mr. Bateson | Episode: ''Jack and the Computer'' |
| 1984 | Travelling Man | Det. Chief Supt. Sullivan | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | Just Good Friends | Eddie Brown | 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Theodor Eicke | Television film |
| 1985–1986 | The Mysteries | First Soldier Abraham | 3 episodes |
| 1986 | Chance in a Million | Arthur | Episode: ''The Lost Weekend'' |
| 1986 | The Holy City | Stiles | Television film |
| 1986 | Four to One | Len | Television film |
| 1986 | Dempsey and Makepeace | Corman | Episode: ''The Guardian Angel'' |
| 1986 | The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest | Colonel Pietruska | Television film |
| 1986 | Lytton's Diary | Charlie Rigby | Episode ''Rule of Engagement'' |
| 1987 | Smith & Jones | Unknown | Episode: #4.2 |
| 1987 | Harry's Kingdom | Bob Roberts | Television film |
| 1988 | Singles | Mr. Broadbent | Episode: ''Money, Money, Money'' |
| 1988 | Tickets for the Titanic | Brock | Episode: ''Pastoral Care' |
| 1988 | ScreenPlay | Mr. Vernon | Episode: ''Starlings'' |
| 1988 | A Taste for Death | Gordon Halliwell | 4 episodes |
| 1988 | War & Remembrance | Untersturmfuhrer Klinge | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | Shadow of the Noose | Van der Hogh | Episode ''Beside the Seaside'' |
| 1989 | The Nineteenth Hole | Mr. Bennett | 7 episodes |
| 1989 | Saracen | Metcalf | Episode: ''Crossfire'' |
| 1989 | The Paradise Club | Bobby Mulgrew | Episode: "Short Story" |
| 1991 | Madness | Reenactments | 2 episodes |
| 1991 | An Actor's Life For Me | Bill Mortimer | Episode: ''Night of the Living Dead'' |
| 1992 | Screen One | Jimmy | Episode: ''Seconds Out'' |
| 1994 | 99-1 | Hicks | Episode: ''Where the Money Is'' |
| 1989–1996 | The Bill | Eric Taylor Jim Whatley Mike Walker | 3 episodes |

## Theatre work

* Bedroom Farce (1977)
* The Hothouse (1980)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
* The Mayor of Zalamea (1982)
* Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
* Golden Boy (1984)