# Paul Brooke

Paul Brooke (born 22 November 1944) is a retired English actor. He made his film debut in 1972 in the Hammer film Straight on till Morning, followed by performances in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), Scandal (1989), Saving Grace (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Alfie (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Oliver Twist (2005). Brooke is the father of actor Tom Brooke.

## Career

Brooke began as a stage actor and has played in many London productions, including several years as a member of Frank Dunlop's original Young Vic Company. He played Malakili the Rancor Keeper in the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi (his voiced dubbed over by Ernie Fosselius). He played British Conservative politician Ian Gow in the 2004 BBC series The Alan Clark Diaries. In 2006, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Year of the Pig as well as the 1990 Mr. Bean sketch "The Library". He played Mr. Fitzherbert in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's Diary.
Other appearances in television dramas and comedies featuring Brooke include The Blackadder, Bertie and Elizabeth, the BBC adaptation of Blott on the Landscape, Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Rab C. Nesbitt, Kavanagh QC, Sharpe's Revenge, Midsomer Murders, Hustle, Covington Cross, The Kit Curran Radio Show, Between the Lines, Relic Hunter and Mornin' Sarge. He appeared in the miniseries Nostromo in 1997.
He played Gríma Wormtongue in the 1981 BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
He, Linal Haft and Frank Mills are the only actors to appear in both the classic and returning series of Minder, but playing different roles in each.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1972 | Straight On till Morning | Uneasy man (uncredited) |
| 1979 | Agatha | John Foster |
| 1981 | For Your Eyes Only | Bunky |
| 1983 | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | Malakili - Rancor Keeper (uncredited) |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | The Rev. Stimson |
| 1985 | Revolution | Lord Darling |
| 1988 | The Lair of the White Worm | P.C. Erny |
| 1989 | Scandal | John, Detective Sgt |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Dr. Herzog |
| 1989 | The Kitchen Child (short) | Undetermined role |
| 1990 | The Fool | Lord Paramount |
| 1993 | Splitting Heirs | Tour Guide |
| 1993 | The Trial | Deputy Bank Manager |
| 1993 | Genghis Cohn | Hans-Dieter Pohl |
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Domremy's Priest |
| 1999 | Lighthouse | Captain Campbell |
| 2000 | Saving Grace | Charlie |
| 2000 | Il cielo cade (The Sky is Falling) | Mr. Pitt |
| 2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Mr. Fitzherbert |
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Monsieur Bohmer |
| 2004 | Alfie | Flower Shop Proprietor |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Auctioneer |
| 2005 | Oliver Twist | Mr Grimwig |
| 2005 | Still Life (short) | Auctioneer |
| 2008 | The Edge of Love | Mr. Judge Singleton |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1969 | The Wednesday Play | Farquhar | "The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel" |
| 1970 | Daniel Deronda | Mr. Mackworth | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1972 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Reuben | Young Vic production TV broadcast |
| 1978 | The Comedy of Errors | Angelo | TV film |
| 1980 | The Other 'Arf | Smidger | "Open to the Public" (S1E5) |
| 1980 | Metal Mickey | Harry | "Taking the Mickey" (S1E4) |
| 1980 | Play for Today | Mornington | "Minor Complications" (S11E5) |
| 1981 | BBC Television Shakespeare | Lavache | "All's Well That Ends Well" |
| 1981 | The History Man | Henry Beamish | Series 1 (4 episodes) |
| 1981 | The Olympian Way | Trevor Watt | Series 1 (4 episodes) |
| 1981 | World's End | Lord Arvin | Series 1 (8 episodes) |
| 1982 | Shine on Harvey Moon | Doctor Thrush | "In Sickness and in Health" (S2E3) |
| 1983 | Phantom of the Opera | Inspector | TV film |
| 1983 | Blackadder | Friar Bellows | "The Black Seal" (S1E6) |
| 1983 | The Mad Death | Bob Nicol | Miniseries (3 episodes) |
| 1983 | Jemima Shore Investigates | Acton Tindall | "The Damask Collection" (S1E11) |
| 1983 | Reilly, Ace of Spies | Granier | "Anna" (S1E4) |
| 1984 | Minder | Hamster | "High Drains Pilferer" (S4E3) |
| 1984–86 | The Kit Curran Radio Show | Les Toms | Series 1–2 (main role, 12 episodes) |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Gen. Josef Biegler, SA | TV film |
| 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | Hoskins | Series 1 (main role, 6 episodes) |
| 1985 | Hommage à Rossini | Signor Gioachino Rossini | TV film |
| 1985 | Girls on Top | Lawrence | "C.O.D." (S1E3) |
| 1986 | King and Castle | Edward Halliday-Mostyn | Series 1 (4 episodes) |
| 1986 | Bergerac | Malcolm Croxted | "Fires in the Fall" (S4E10) |
| 1987 | Still Crazy Like a Fox | Constable | TV film |
| 1987 | Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story | Junot | Miniseries (3 episodes) |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Dr. Hofrat Behrens | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 1988 | After Henry | Paul | "The Birthday" (S1E6) |
| 1988 | The StoryTeller | Chancellor | "The Luck Child" (S1E4) |
| 1988 | Number 27 | Karmel | TV film |
| 1989–90 | The Justice Game | Alistair Sinclair Murray | Series 1–2 (5 episodes) |
| 1989 | Mornin' Sarge | Sarge | Series 1 (main role, 7 episodes) |
| 1989 | Somewhere to Run | Abrahams | TV film |
| 1989 | Anything More Would Be Greedy | Mr. Leadweller | Miniseries (3 episodes) |
| 1989 | Saracen | Charles Lighthill | "Infidels" (S1E2) |
| 1989 | About Face | Howell | "Send Her Victorious" (S1E5) |
| 1989 | Screen One | Lilliwhite | "The Mountain and the Molehill” (S1E6) |
| 1990 | Campion | Mr. Parrott | "Sweet Danger" (2 parts, S1E1/2) |
| 1990–91 | El C.I.D. | James Henley Dodd | Series 1–2 (5 episodes) |
| 1990 | All Creatures Great and Small | Captain Crawford | "A Grand Memory for Forgetting" (S7E9) |
| 1990 | Mr. Bean | Reader in Library | "The Library" (unaired sketch) |
| 1991 | Screen One | Feature Writer | "Hancock" (S1E2) |
| 1991 | Children of the North | Ballister | Series 1 (4 episodes) |
| 1991 | Stay Lucky | Simon Owen | "An Unsavoury Business" (S3E4) |
| 1992 | Screen One | Martin Poyser | "Adam Bede" (S3E9) |
| 1992 | Lovejoy | Gently Bentley | "Scotch on the Rocks" (S3E7) |
| 1992 | Love Hurts | Bryan Appleford | Series 1 (3 episodes) |
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending | Humphrey Morris | TV film |
| 1992 | Mr. Wakefield's Crusade | Doctor | (S1E2) |
| 1992 | Covington Cross | Friar | Season 1 (9 episodes) |
| 1992 | De terre et de sang (Blood and Dust) | Simon | TV film |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Policeman #1 | "Paris, October 1916" (S2E16) |
| 1993 | The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries | Abel Pomeroy | "Death at the Bar" (S1E5) |
| 1993 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Prison Governor | "Right" (S3E5) |
| 1994 | In Suspicious Circumstances | Doctor Holmes | "The Next Mrs. Clements" (S4E5) |
| 1994 | Nice Day at the Office | Victor Fenwicke | "The Enemy Within" (S1S3) |
| 1994 | Between the Lines | Eddington | "A Safe Pair of Hands" (S3E2) |
| 1994 | Dandelion Dead | Arthur | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1995 | Joking Apart | Dr. Strickland | (S2E2) |
| 1995 | Ghosts | Dr. Brandon | "Shadowy Third" (S1E4) |
| 1995 | Ain't Misbehavin' | Chuck Purvis | Series 2 (main role, 6 episodes) |
| 1995 | Oliver's Travels | Rowley | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 1996 | Annie's Bar | Vernon Du Chine | Series 1 (main role, 10 episodes) |
| 1996 | The Moonstone | Dr. Candy | TV film |
| 1996–97 | Nostromo | Capt. Mitchell | Miniseries (4 episodes) |
| 1997 | Chalk | Max | "The Interview" (S1E2) |
| 1997 | Have Your Cake and Eat It | Stimpson | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1997 | Kavanagh QC | Richard Dynevor | "Diplomatic Baggage" (S3E4) |
| 1997 | Sharpe | Roland | "Sharpe's Revenge" (S5E1) |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Maclintick | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 1998 | Heat of the Sun | Sir Rex Willoughby | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1998 | The Life and Crimes of William Palmer | Attorney General | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle | Duncan Orloff | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1998 | Midsomer Murders | Nigel Anderson | "Faithful unto Death" (S1E4) |
| 1998 | The Unknown Soldier | Urquart | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 1998 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Canon Eustace Horncastle | "Bones and Silence" (S3E3) |
| 1999 | The Last Salute | Mr. Pimm | "Bank Holiday" (S2E2) |
| 2000 | Relic Hunter | Chef Gerard La Grange | "Nothing But the Truth" (S1E21) |
| 2000 | The Prince and the Pauper | Magistrate | TV film |
| 2001 | Doc Martin | Charley | TV film |
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth | Tommy Lascelles | TV film |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Arthur Ellis | "The White Feather" (S1E2) |
| 2003 | Leonardo | Abbot | Miniseries (1 episode) |
| 2003 | Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie | Charley | TV film |
| 2004 | The Alan Clark Diaries | Ian Gow | Series 1 (3 episodes) |
| 2004–06 | The Worst Week of My Life | Vicar | Series 1 & 3 (4 episodes) |
| 2004 | My Dad's the Prime Minister | Sir Fabian Flood | "Diaries" (S2E6) |
| 2005 | Hustle | Benny | "Eye of the Beholder" (S2E6) |
| 2005 | The Bill | Richard Foster | Series 21 (2 episodes) |
| 2005 | Summer Solstice | Derek | TV film |
| 2007 | A Class Apart | Godfrey | TV film |
| 2007 | My Family | Mr. Salem | "Ho Ho No" (Christmas special) |
| 2008 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Billingsley | "A Pocket Full of Rye" (S4E1) |
| 2008 | Einstein and Eddington | H H Turner | TV film |
| 2009 | Minder | Dickie Mint | Series 11 (3 episodes) |
| 2009 | The Royal | Dr. Marsden | "Counting Chickens" (S8E2) |