David Fleeshman

David Fleeshman

David Fleeshman (born 11 July 1952) is a British actor, broadcaster, drama lecturer and theatre director with experience in film, radio, television, theatre and commercials. Fleeshman was born on 11 July 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Rosina and William Fleeshman. His family was Jewish. He trained at The Birmingham Theatre School making his stage debut was in 1973 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1974 he took a position as actor/assistant stage manager at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and has also been an associate director of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre. In 1978 he married actress Sue Jenkins, who played Gloria Todd on Coronation Street, 1985–1988, and Jackie Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, 1991–2001. They have three children all currently working in the acting profession: Emily Fleeshman, Richard Fleeshman and Rosie Fleeshman. Fleeshman has appeared in and directed numerous plays around the UK and abroad, including Arthur Miller's The Price, for which he won best actor in a supporting role at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards in 2005. As a theatre director, he directed the European premiere of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and the regional premiere of My Night With Reg, which won best production at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. Fleeshman's major television roles include Boys from the Blackstuff, Edge of Darkness, Silent Witness, and Trial & Retribution, comedy classics such as Only Fools and Horses and A Bit of a Do, as well as stints in Coronation Street, Brookside, Doctors, Emmerdale, and EastEnders. He has also recorded frequently for BBC Radio. Filmography includes Pink Floyd – The Wall and Unstoppable. From 2013 to 2015 he toured extensively with the Royal National Theatre's War Horse, which played to audiences at venues throughout the United Kingdom, Dublin and South Africa. During 2016 Fleeshman portrayed the judge in Channel 4's National Treasure and played the leading role Charlie Resnick in Darkness, Darkness at the Nottingham Playhouse. From 2016 to 2019, he directed the Christmas pantomimes Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan (starring Cannon and Ball and Chico Slimani), performed at Crewe Lyceum Theatre. In 2018 he was nominated by the Manchester Theatre Awards as best supporting actor for his role as Uncle Vanya.

Known For: Acting

Born: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1952-07-11

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Pink Floyd: The Wall	Man on Station	80
2	1986	Realm of Darkness - Caves of Glass	Narrator	100
3	1988	The Luddites	Enoch Taylor	0
4	1998	The Cater Street Hangman	Renshaw	40
5	2002	The Falklands Play	Denis Healey MP (Labour)	74
6	2004	Unstoppable	St. Nevis Guard 2	51
7	2004	Christmas Lights	Margolis	51
8	2008	Mother, Mine	Graham	0
9	2018	Disobedience	Yosef Kirschbaum	69
10	2019	A Very British Christmas	Station Guard	62

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
2	1982	Boys from the Blackstuff	D.O.E Assistant Manager	77
3	1985	Edge of Darkness	Jones	80
4	1988	The Storyteller	Innkeeper	82
5	1989	A Bit of a Do		64
6	1992	Heartbeat	Laski	71
7	1992	Heartbeat	Mr. Faber	71
8	1992	Heartbeat	Captain Jorgan	71
9	1992	Heartbeat	Frank Carter	71
10	1996	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	Immigration Officer	72
11	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
12	1997	Trial & Retribution		68
13	1998	Highlander: The Raven	Harry	55
14	1999	Bad Girls	DI Harwell	76
15	2002	Spooks	Malcolm Stackley	77
16	2002	Believe Nothing	Edmund Bilyas	67
17	2003	The Royal	Don Waite	76
18	2003	The Last Detective	George Williams	76
19	2004	North & South	Landlord	81
20	2006	Grownups		0
21	2006	The Innocence Project		0
22	2010	Accused	Judge	81
23	2016	National Treasure	Judge	66
24	2020	All Creatures Great & Small	Mr Soames	82
25	2021	It's a Sin	Husband	79
26	2022	The Teacher	Roger	59

David Fleeshman

Film

Television