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Roger Alborough

ActorBorn February 19, 1953 (72 years)
Roger Alborough (born 19 February 1953) is a British TV and Theatre actor appearing in many dramas on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and in film. Richard trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama from 1973 to 1976 Recent work includes Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker Thieftakers 2, The 8 Days that Made Rome, Washington for The History Channel as General Braddock. Alborough has also appeared in Doctors, Silent Witness, The Queen as Sir William Heseltine, Body Story, Judge John Deed, EastEnders, The Bill, Mr Pye, Strife, Merlin of the Crystal Cave, and Unnatural Causes among others. In the BBC sitcom The Green Green Grass, Alborough played the part of Jonty in the 2005 Christmas Special episode "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock".

In 2018, Alborough played the role of The Professor in Ionesco's The Lesson at the award-winning Hope Theatre in London. He followed this with role of Tom in Goodnight Mr Tom at East Riding Theatre. In 2016, Alborough played the role of Andy Capp at the Finborough Theatre in London in a stage musical based on the long-running cartoon strip

Films include Shaka Zulu as Hawkins, I Anna, Velvet Underground.

Roger has also played radical co-prime minister Peter Clement in the game Not for Broadcast.

West End includes Buddy and Jailhouse Rock. Up'n Under, Chasing Dragons at the Soho Theatre, African Snow at the Trafalgar Studios, Enjoy original cast at the Vaudeville, Annie Get Your Gun Haymarket.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Rosemary & Thyme
  • Our House
  • London's Burning
  • Brothers of War

Known For

  • Brothers of War
  • Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
  • Unnatural Causes
  • Merlin of the Crystal Cave
  • Surviving Disaster
  • Blue Borsalino

Filmography

2022
Our House (TV Series) · as Mr. Burridge
2020
Washington (TV Series) · as General Braddock
2019
The Feed (2019) (TV Series) · as Devan
2019
2018
Patrick Melrose (TV Series) · as Funeral Director
2017
America's War on Drugs (TV Series) · as Klaus Barbie
2017
Tina & Bobby (TV Series) · as Rev Michael Stone
2015
Blue Borsalino · as Frank Delaware
2015
Brothers of War · as Frank Willis
2013
Lucan (2013) (TV Series) · as Whitehouse
2013
Drifters (TV Series) · as Interviewer
2012
I, Anna · as Security Guard
2011
Black Mirror (TV Series) · as Joe
2009
The Queen (TV Series) · as Bill Heseltine
2006
Surviving Disaster (TV Series)
2005
The Green Green Grass (TV Series) · as Jonty
2003
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) · as Sam Trent
2003
The Debt · as Chief Supt. Baxter
2001
2001
Judge John Deed (TV Series) · as Det. Supt. Craddock
2000
Doctors (TV Series) · as Christopher Moulding
2000
My Hero (TV Series) · as Patient Requesting Magazine
1999
1998
Velvet Goldmine · as Middle Age Man
1997
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (TV Series) · as Barman
1997
Trial & Retribution (TV Series) · as Sgt. Morris
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Di Stroud
1995
Thief Takers (TV Series) · as Officer Green
1994
Pie in the Sky (TV Series) · as Plainclothes
1993
Unnatural Causes · as Superintendent Maitland
1991
Merlin of the Crystal Cave (TV Series) · as Uther
1990
The Castle Of Adventure (TV Series) · as Army Sergeant
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Chief Constable Weston
1988
London's Burning (TV Series) · as Station Officer Grant
1986
Casualty (TV Series) · as Ds Cod
1986
Mr Pye (TV Series) · as Sergeant
1985
Theatre Night (TV Series) · as George Rous
1985
EastEnders (TV Series) · as Malcolm Kittle
1984
The Bill (TV Series) · as Ch. Supt. Draper
1972
Emmerdale (TV Series) · as Harry

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