Acting

David Haig

Born 1955-09-20 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having played dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.

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Pressure
Theatre Play
2026
Pressure
Writer
2026
Étoile
as Nicholas
2025
COBRA
as Archie Glover-Morgan
2020
Downton Abbey
as Mr Wilson
2019
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Bernard
2019
Killing Eve
as Bill
2018
Killing Eve
as Bill Pargrave
2018
National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
2017
Urban Myths
as George Frideric Handel
2017
The Witness for the Prosecution
as Sir Charles Carter
2016
There's Something About Romcoms
as Self
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Carlo Edwards
2016
Penny Dreadful
as Oscar Putney
2014
The Wright Way
as Gerald Wright
2013
Yes, Prime Minister
as Prime Minister Jim Hacker
2013
The Michael Ball Show
as Self
2010
Mo
as Jon Norton
2010
The 39 Steps
as Sir George Sinclair
2008
Dustbin Baby
as Elliot
2008
Dickens' Secret Lover
as Charles Dickens
2008
My Boy Jack
as Rudyard Kipling
2007
My Boy Jack
Writer
2007
Mr. Bean's Wedding
as Bride's Father
2007
A for Andromeda
as General Vandenberg
2006
The Thick of It
as Steve Fleming
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Major Hugh Horton
2004
Hustle
as Sir Anthony Reeves
2004
Two Weeks Notice
as Howard Wade
2002
Crime and Punishment
as Luzhin
2002
Station Jim
as Riorden Jnr
2001
Ivor the Invisible
as Park Keeper (voice)
2001
Timequest
as Clint Hill
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
as Col. Bonnet
1999
Talking Heads 2
1998
Keeping Mum
as Richard Beare
1997
Midsomer Murders
as George Jeffers
1997
Never Mind the Horrocks
1996
The Thin Blue Line
as Detective Inspector Derek Grim
1995
Nice Day at the Office
1994
Wycliffe
as David Miller
1994
Love on a Branch Line
as Lionel Virley
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Bernard the Groom - Wedding Two
1994
Cracker
as Graham
1993
Soldier Soldier
as Major Tom Cadman
1991
The Darling Buds of May
as Captain Robert Battersby
1991
Portrait of a Marriage
as Harold Nicolson
1990
Chancer
as Dr. Haselden
1990
Campion
as Cully Randall
1989
Campion
as Guffy Randall
1989
Talking Heads
as Wilfred Paterson
1988
Hannay
1988
Inspector Morse
as Peter Rhodes
1987
Boon
as Jim Fisk
1986
The Cold War Killers
as Colin Jenkins
1986
The Alamut Ambush
as Colin Jenkins
1986
Morons from Outer Space
as Palatial House Flunkey
1985
Dark Enemy
as Ash
1984
A Flame to the Phoenix
as Mirek Grabinski
1983
Chessgame
as Colin Jenkins
1983
Dramarama
as Bill Brock
1983
Diamonds
as Alex Randolph
1981
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
as Pangol
1980
The Moon Stallion
as Todman
1978
The Moon Stallion
as Todman
1978
Blake's 7
as Forres
1978
Doctor Who
as Pangol
1963
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