Nick Stringer
Nick Stringer is an English actor.
In a thirty year career, Stringer has appeared in numerous well-known British television shows, including The Bill, Open All Hours, Only Fools and Horses, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Coronation Street, Family Affairs, Minder, Johnny Jarvis, Butterflies and My Family. He also had a small part in the film, The Long Good Friday.
Stringer appeared in the first two series of The New Statesman as the fictional Member of Parliament Bob Crippen, a Labour opponent of the Conservative Alan B'Stard.
Other roles have included a cameo role in Goodnight Sweetheart in the episode "You're Driving Me Crazy" as an undercover detective, and as a deputy headmaster Mr Sullivan in Press Gang (mainly appearing in the first two seasons). He appeared in the BBC drama Holby City, in an episode entitled "Doctor's Dilemma", on 18 June 2008.
Stringer lives in Swansea, Wales, and is married with two children.
Stringer has also made two guest appearances in the BBC Sictom Only Fools and Horses, in the episodes Go West Young Man, as an australian man, and in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he plays Del's old business partner, Jumbo Mills.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5609 |
| Birthday | 1948-08-10 |
| Place of Birth | Torquay, Devon, England |
| Also Known As |
1976
Children
5.613/31
Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childho...
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Children
1997
The Missing Postman
5/1
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpect...
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The Missing Postman
1986
Clockwise
6.236/218
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for...
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Clockwise
1987
Personal Services
6.109/46
Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedo...
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Personal Services
2009
Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide
0/0
Throughout the 17th century, the Dutch and English fought desperate wars over which country would dominate world trade for the next two centuries. The...
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Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide
1999
Captain Jack
5.5/4
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung...
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Captain Jack
2009
I Know You Know
5.8/17
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his ow...
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I Know You Know
2001
Gentlemen's Relish
5/8
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the po...
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Gentlemen's Relish
1997
Stella Does Tricks
6.5/19
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
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Stella Does Tricks
1988
Home Front
0/0
17 year old Brendan and his friend Mary, campaign against the closure of the residential home for children in which they live.
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Home Front
1983
Gaskin
0/0
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
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Gaskin
1988
The Black and Blue Lamp
0/0
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
1978
Affront
0/0
A car mechanic faces prejudice at work because of his ethnicity.
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Affront
2008
The Edge of Love
6.197/394
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's child...
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The Edge of Love
1983
The Terence Davies Trilogy
6.275/20
In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, mi...
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
2005
Oliver Twist
6.749/1237
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1990
Shoot to Kill
0/0
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Shoot to Kill
1980
The Long Good Friday
7.2/423
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia t...
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The Long Good Friday
1979
The Knowledge
6.5/11
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Knowledge
1989
Work Experience
6.875/8
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Work Experience
1979
That Summer!
4.875/8
A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel cham...
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That Summer!
1978
The Shout
6.031/127
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learne...
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The Shout
1988
We Think the World of You
6.389/18
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets...
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We Think the World of You
1978
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
0/0
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1976
Occupy!
10/1
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hyb...
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Occupy!
1978
The Life Story of Baal
10/1
An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a young poet who rejects the norms of society and de...
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