Complex sentence: He played the role of police detective Porfiry Petrovich in the BBC's 2002 TV adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", also starring in an episode of "Inspector Morse" several years earlier, as psychopathic conman Hugo DeVries.
Split into simpler sentences: He played the role of police detective Porfiry Petrovich in the BBC's 2002 TV adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment". He starred in an episode of "Inspector Morse" several years earlier, as psychopathic conman Hugo DeVries.