David Cook(1940-2015)

Actor
Writer

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David Cook was born on 21 September 1940 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1995), Le deuxième père (1994) and Play for Today (1970). He died on 16 September 2015 in the UK.

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Known for

Dominic Monaghan and Patricia Routledge in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1995)

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

7.6

TV Series

Writer

Nathan Yapp in Le deuxième père (1994)

Le deuxième père

6.8

Movie

Writer

1994

Play for Today (1970)

7.8

TV Series

Wilf

Heartland (1979)

2.6

TV Series

Writer

Credits

Actor

Doctors
4.6
TV Series
- Derek Jacobs
- 2007
Delusion
Short
- Father
- 2005
The Bill
6.7
TV Series
- Carl Jones
- Malcolm Barber
- 1992–1998
All Creatures Great & Small
8.4
TV Series
- Mr. Hopps
- 1988–1989
Murder of a Moderate Man
8.2
TV Mini Series
- Insp. McGovern
- 1985
Agatha Christie : Dix brèves rencontres
7.1
TV Mini Series
- Captain Mountjoy
- 1982
The Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.9
TV Movie
- Hustings
- 1982
ITV Playhouse
7.3
TV Series
- Mr. Eldred
- Keith
- Peter
- 1977–1980
Le club des cinq
7.4
TV Series
- Ted
- 1978
The Birds Fall Down
TV Mini Series
- Stankovitch
- 1978
La Grande Cuisine
6.4
- Bussingbill
- 1978
Armchair Thriller
7.3
TV Series
- Wormald
- 1978
Survivors
8.0
TV Series
- Irvine
- 1977
Couples
5.1
TV Series
- Geoff Baker
- 1975–1976
Brief Encounter
5.4
TV Movie
- Schoolmaster
- 1974

Writer

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
7.6
TV Series
- characters from the novel "Missing Persons"
- series creator
- creator ...
- 1996–1998
Le deuxième père
6.8
- novel
- screenplay
- 1994
Closing Numbers
6.9
TV Movie
- screenplay
- 1993
Missing Persons
6.5
TV Movie
- novel
- screenplay
- 1990
Love Match
TV Movie
- script
- 1986
Weekend Playhouse
TV Series
- writer
- 1984
Scene
6.6
TV Series
- writer
- 1984
Walter & June
7.3
TV Movie
- dramatised by
- novel: "Winter Doves"
- 1983
Walter
7.3
TV Movie
- dramatisation
- novel
- 1982
In Front of the Children
TV Special
- by: 'A Place Like Home'
- 1982
BBC2 Playhouse
6.8
TV Series
- script
- 1980
Heartland
2.6
TV Series
- writer
- 1979
The Sunday Drama
5.9
TV Series
- writer
- 1977
Television Club
TV Series
- writer
- 1977
Couples
5.1
TV Series
- writer
- 1975–1976

Personal details

Height
- 1.78 m
Born
- September 21, 1940
- Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
Died
- September 16, 2015
- UK(pancreatic cancer)
Other works
He acted in the play, "The Corsican Brothers", at the Greenwich Theatre with Fiona Walker, Gerald Howe and Gerald Harper in the cast.

Did you know

Trivia
He won in 1978 the Hawthornden prize for Walter which he later adapted as a TV movie.

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