David Schofield

[Tonch]

Unless I've missed it, I can't find a thread dedicated to this rather underrated though quite ubiquitous actor. I was watching him last night playing the part of a disturbed criminal in "Waking The Dead" and was so impressed I thought I'd do a bit of research on him. One thing that surprised me...apparently he was the original "Elephant Man" in the initial British run of the stage play. Which is a coincidence as I was only the other day reading an interesting "Elephant Man" thread on this very forum. Anyone got any more information or recollections about Mr Schofield?

[Dave Rattigan]

He was a pub regular in American Werewolf in London, and popped up this year as a pub regular in The Wolf Man. I wondered if the casting was a deliberate homage.

[didi-5]

Memorable for me in Shadow of the Noose and Our Friends in the North - always seems a bit seedy, somehow, but a good actor.

[Tigon Man]

Great actor, vying with George Sweeney as number 1 telly villain of the seventies and eighties. Now in demand in the US thanks to his stint on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, he seems likely to become one of our most successful character actor exports of recent years.

Particularly memorable as Mason a psychotic villain who gives Grob (Rupert Frazer) an impromptu swimming lesson... whilst the latter is chained to an iron ornamental bench, in 'Second Time Around', one of the best of the later Bergerac's from 1989.

[Lord Brett]

name='Dave Rattigan']He was a pub regular in American Werewolf in London, and popped up this year as a pub regular in The Wolf Man. I wondered if the casting was a deliberate homage.

I wouldn't surprise me. The film seemed to contain lots of American Werewolf homages, particularly when woolfie gets loose in London.