Simon MacCorkindale

Nacimiento
12 de febrero de 1952 · Ely, Cambridgeshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido
Defunción
14 de octubre de 2010 · Marylebone, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (cáncer de intestino y de pulmón)
Nombre de nacimiento
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale
Altura
1.82 m

His production company, "Amy International", is named after the character that his wife, Susan George, played in Los perros de paja (1971).
He was offered the role of Captain Jonathan Archer in Enterprise (2001) before Scott Bakula was cast. However, he turned it down, opting to play Harry Harper in Casualty (1986) instead.
In between marriages, he was romantically involved with actress Linda Purl. They worked together on TV and stage, where he directed her in the play "A Doll's House" in Los Angeles.
Son of a Royal Air Force Group Captain, Peter Bernard MacCorkindale, OBE. MacCorkindale was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College before abandoning plans to follow his father into the air force due to declining eyesight. An early interest in theatre saw him first direct then act after attending Studio 68 at the Theatre Arts School in London.
He died two days before the death of his Falcon Crest (1981) co-star Chao Li Chi.

On his father's attitude to his son's acting career when he introduced him to Sir John Mills: Dad said 'I'm actually sitting here with someone who has a perfectly normal life. I guess it's perfectly possible for my son to not end up on skid row.'
[on turning down the role of Captain Jonathan Archer in Enterprise (2001)] I was offered, not Captain Picard, but whatever the Captain would have been, so before I did Casualty (1986), I made a choice of doing Casualty (1986) as opposed to whatever the Captain would have been on "Star Trek". But I didn't want to do that, I can't do sci-fi. It just drives me up the wall, it's all rubbish and spouting that gibberish every day was no thank you very much. The thing I loved about Casualty (1986) was although there was a lot of gobbledygook at least it was all about real life and people and medical situations and that became the challenge. Actually talking about all the so called scientific stuff that really most of the time doesn't make any sense to anybody whatsoever, and looking at a whole bunch of silly people in makeup was just not what I wanted to do with my life so Captain Picard would not be a choice. Captain Pugwash might be rather appropriate.

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