| Birth Name: | Timothy L. McInnerny |
| Birth Date: | 18 September 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England |
| Education: | Marling School |
| Alma Mater: | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1983–present |
| Spouse: | Annie Gosney |
Timothy L. McInnerny (; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder.
McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny.[1] He has one sister, Lizzy, who is also an actress. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976[2] after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.[3]
McInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (The Black Adder) and the second series (Blackadder II); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and returned to play Captain Kevin Darling in the fourth series (Blackadder Goes Forth), a character significantly different from the Lords Percy.
He had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. More recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK (2011) as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks (2012). In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.[4]
In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show I Love the '70s: "I think shows like Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour need to be remembered for what they were; truly fantastic examples of sitcom writing that hasn't been seen since. The content is unfortunate in the cold light of modern society, but that's no reason to stop praising the sheer brilliance of the writers that ITV had in its ranks during that decade."[5]
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Black Adder | Lord Percy Percy | ||
| 1985 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | John Clay Vincent Spalding | Episode: "The Red-Headed League" | |
| 1985 | Edge of Darkness | Terry Shields | ||
| 1986 | Yakovlev | |||
| 1986 | Blackadder II | Lord Percy Percy | ||
| 1987 | Blackadder the Third | Topper The Scarlet Pimpernel | Episode: "Nob and Nobility" | |
| 1988 | A Very British Coup | Fiennes | Three-part TV serial | |
| 1989 | Blackadder Goes Forth | Captain Kevin Darling | ||
| 1992 | The Bill | Kevin Finch | Episode: "Open to Offers" | |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Franz Kafka | Episode: "Prague, August 1917" | |
| 1997 | Tracey Takes On... | Timothy Bugge | ||
| 1999 | Archdeacon Darling the Duke of Darling le Duc de Darling | |||
| 1999 | The Vice | Max Wilson | episode "Sons" (Parts 1 and 2) | |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Barabbas | voice only | |
| 2002 | Don't Eat the Neighbours | Terrapin | ||
| Trial & Retribution | Eric Fowler | Series 6 | ||
| 2004 | Spooks | Oliver Mace | ||
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Reverend Leonard Clement | ||
| 2004 | Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Cecil | ||
| 2006 | The Line of Beauty | Gerald Fedden | TV miniseries | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who | Klineman Halpen | Episode: "Planet of the Ood" Series 4 | |
| 2009 | Hustle | Judge Anthony Kent | ||
| 2009 | Inspector George Gently | Geoffrey Pershore | Episode: "Gently Through the Mill" | |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Hugh Dalgleish | Episode: "The Sword of Guillaume" #13.2 | |
| 2011 | Simon Bennett | Episode: "Haunted" | ||
| Twenty Twelve | Tony Ward | Episode #1.6 | ||
| The Body Farm | Richard Warner | Episode "You've Got Visitors" | ||
| 2011–2012 | New Tricks | Stephen Fisher | Episodes: "The Gentleman That Vanished", "A Death in the Family" and "Part of a Whole" | |
| 2012 | The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff | Harmswell Grimstone | Episodes: "#1.1", "#1.2", "#1.3" | |
| 2014 | Castles in the Sky | Churchill | ||
| Outlander | Father Bain | |||
| Utopia | Airey Neave | Episode: "Episode 1" | ||
| The Boy in the Dress | Mr Hawthorn | |||
| 2015 | Robin Foster | |||
| 2016 | Sherlock | Eustace Carmichael | Episode: "The Abominable Bride" | |
| 2016 | Houdini and Doyle | Horace Merring | Episodes: "#1", "#2", "#8" | |
| 2016–2017 | Game of Thrones | Robett Glover | Episodes: "The Broken Man", "The Winds of Winter", "Dragonstone", "Stormborn", "Eastwatch" | |
| 2016 | National Treasure | Karl | ||
| 2017 | In the Dark | Frank Linnell | Episodes: 1.3, 1.4 | |
| 2017 | Strike | Daniel Chard | The Silkworm | |
| 2017 | Harlots | Lord Repton | Episodes: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 | |
| 2018 | Strangers | Arthur Bach | ||
| 2019–2020 | The Trial of Christine Keeler | Martin Redmayne | Recurring role | |
| 2020 | The Windermere Children | Leonard Montefiore | ||
| 2020 | Gangs of London | Mr Jacob | Episode: 1.9 | |
| 2021 | The Serpent | Paul Siemons | ||
| 2022 | Ten Percent | Simon Gould | [6] | |
| 2024 | One Day (TV series) | Stephen Mayhew |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Dead on Time | Customer | Short film |
| 1985 | Wetherby | John Morgan | |
| 1989 | Erik the Viking | Sven the Berserk | |
| 1995 | Richard III | William Catesby | |
| 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Alonzo | |
| 1997 | John Ferret | ||
| 1999 | Rogue Trader | Tony Hawes | |
| Notting Hill | Max | ||
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Alonzo | |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Dr. Lambert | |
| 2005 | Casanova | The Doge | |
| 2006 | Severance | Richard | |
| 2008 | The Devil's Whore | Joliffe | |
| 2010 | Black Death | Hob | |
| 2011 | Johnny English Reborn | Patch Quartermain | |
| 2014 | The Minister of Chance | The King | |
| 2014 | Automata | Vernon Conway | |
| 2015 | Oliver Mace | ||
| 2016 | Eddie The Eagle | Target | |
| 2017 | The Hippopotamus | Roddy | |
| 2018 | Agatha and the Truth of Murder | Randolph | |
| Peterloo | Prince Regent | ||
| Sometimes Always Never | Arthur | ||
| 2019 | Killers Anonymous | Calvin | |
| The Aeronauts | Airy | [7] | |
| 2022 | Marooned Awakening | Karl | Voice |
| 2022 | Stromboli | Harold | |
| 2024 | The End | Post-production | |
| Gladiator II | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie | By Nick Darke | |
| 1999 | The Saturday Play | Earl of Oxford | ||
| 2001 | Habbakuk of Ice | Geoffrey Pyke | by Steve Walker | |
| 2004 | The Odyssey | Odysseus | Adapted by Simon Armitage | |
| 2010 | I, Claudius | Tiberius | ||
| 2013 | Headlong | Tony Churt | ||
| 2017 | King Solomon's Mines | Allan Quatermain | ||
| 2022 | Make Death Love Me | Antony |
In 1985 he was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.[8]
He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.[9]
In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.[10]
Selected theatre performances
In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work".[11] He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.[12]