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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 16, 1941
- Place of Birth
- Sierra Leone
- Died
- June 7, 2013
David Lyon
David Laurie Lyon (16 May 1941 – 7 June 2013) was a British stage, television, and film actor. Of Scottish descent, David Lyon was born in 1941 to Joe Lyon, a diamond merchant, and his wife Margaret. David spent much of his childhood in Sierra Leone where his father worked, before being sent home to be educated at Crofton House in Dumfriesshire in Scotland. He won a scholarship to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, but was forced to leave education at the age of 16 when his father was declared bankrupt. He first worked in Glasgow for Royal Insurance, before moving south to England to work as a flooring salesman in Birmingham. At the age of 30 he decided to switch careers to acting. Lyon studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama as a mature student, and did not take paid acting work until 1975 at the Manchester Library Theatre. From 1976, he performed regularly for …
Filmography
movieGreenfingers
2001 · Home Secretary
tvMonarch of the Glen
2000 · Mr. Burns
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Alan Thorpe
movieRichard II
1997 · Thomas Mowbray
tvPie in the Sky
1994 · Tom Watson
tvStanley and the Women
1991 · Dr Cliff Wainwright
tvPerformance
1991 · Albany, Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Salisbury
movieTell Me That You Love Me
1991 · Leslie Boyd
tvIn Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · Dr Carr
movieThe War That Never Ends
1991 · Camarinean Representative
tvHouse of Cards
1990 · Henry Collingridge
tvThe Chief
1990 · Cllr. Tom Brewster
movieDeath Has a Bad Reputation
1990 · Patrick Cowlishaw
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Marcus Hardman
Christabel
tvChristabel
1988 · Kreuze
movieCodename: Kyril
1988 · Burrows
Reasonable Force
movieReasonable Force
1988 · Matheson
movieLove After Lunch
1987 · John Baines
moviePing Pong
1987 · Peter
movieEmpire State
1987 · Mr. Cavendish
movieDefence of the Realm
1986 · Political Pundit
tvLovejoy
1986 · John Welland Smythe
movieThe Price
1985 · Simon
movieMacbeth
1983 · Angus
tvReilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Dichter Daerenthal
movieThe Ploughman's Lunch
1983 · Newsreader
movieThe Disappearance of Harry
1982 · Harry Webster
movieNorthern Lights
1982 · Andrew
movieThe Workshop
1982 · Machinist