Matthew Marsh
Matthew Marsh (born 8 July 1954) is an English actor. He is the older brother of Jon Marsh of the English dance band "The Beloved". He has appeared in the films The Fourth Protocol (1987), Diamond Skulls (1989), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Alambrado (1991), Dirty Weekend (1993), Spy Game (2001), Miranda (2002), Bad Company (2002), Quicksand (2003) and An American Haunting (2005). In 2011 Marsh starred in the biopic film The Iron Lady as the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig. In 2005, Marsh starred as Simon Hewitt in the first series of The Thick of It.
In May 1998, Marsh portrayed the character Alex Duncan in the British TV programme As Time Goes By, series 7, episode 3 entitled "The New Neighbours". He co-starred with Amanda Burton in The Commander, and guest-starred in the sixth series of the spy drama Spooks in 2007 and the second series of Lewis in 2008. He played Harry Gallo in the New Tricks (series 7, episode 9) "Gloves Off" in 2010. He appeared twice in Midsomer Murders (season 6, episode 3 "Painted Blood" and season 10, episode 7 "They Seek Him Here"). He has also appeared in the Red Dwarf episode "Holoship" and the fifth episode of series two of Game On, "Tangerine Candy Floss and Herne Bay Rock" as Brian Kennedy, Mandy's lecherous former university tutor in 1996, as well as portraying Elton John in John and Yoko: A Love Story the 1985 made-for-TV film. In 2019 Marsh went on to play Jacques De Molay, the ill-fated 14th century Grand Master of the Knights Templar in seven episodes of History's Knightfall.
His frequent theatre work includes Copenhagen (1998) and Blood and Gifts (2010). He played Winston Churchill in Michael Dobbs's play Turning Point which aired as one of a series of TV plays broadcast live on Sky Arts channel. The two-hander depicted a little-known October 1938 meeting between the future prime minister and Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC. Burgess was played by Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom Marsh had previously worked in the acclaimed 2004 TV movie Hawking.
Acted in
Hounds of War
2024
as President Lane
Tetris
2023
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Django
2023
as Col. William Fourier
National Theater Live: The Crucible
2023
The Contractor
2022
as Gray (uncredited)
The Nevers
2021
as Major
The Mauritanian
2021
as General Miller
West of Liberty
2019
as Clive 'GT' Barner
Mr. Jones
2019
as William Randolph Hearst
The Informer
2019
as Warden Leinart
Whiskey Cavalier
2019
as Director Casey
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
as General Kuznetsov
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Ballentine Morgan
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Gernot (voice)
Dunkirk
2017
as Rear Admiral
Unlocked
2017
as Frank Sutter
Taboo
2017
as Exorcist
The Crown
2016
as President Eisenhower
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Lord Beaverbrook
Capital
2015
as Lothar
The Coroner
2015
as Sidney Sutton
Humans
2015
as Lord Dryden
Arthur & George
2015
as Chief Constable Anson
Hafen der Düfte
2013
as Kommissar Braddock
Jo
2013
Father Brown
2013
as Lord Arthur Hawthorne
The Other Child
2013
as Stephen Cramer
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
as Peter
Epithet
2012
as Richard
Red Tails
2012
as Brigadier General Hauser
The Iron Lady
2011
as Alexander Haig
Hidden
2011
as James Morpeth
Shirley
2011
as Jack Hylton
Vera
2011
as Phil Kingston
The Special Relationship
2010
as Foreign Policy Advisor
Luther
2010
as DCSU Russell Cornish
The Turning Point
2009
as Winston Churchill
Endgame
2009
as F.W. de Klerk
How Not to Live Your Life
2008
as Glen Menford
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
as Alec Hurley
Lewis
2007
as Henry McEwan
O Jerusalem
2006
as Sir Gordon
Lead Balloon
2006
Land of the Blind
2006
as Papa Max
Century City
2006
The Thick of It
2005
as Simon Hewitt
An American Haunting
2005
as James Johnston
Hawking
2004
as Dr. John Holloway
Belonging
2004
as Peter Fox
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Giuseppe Larsson
Wall of Silence
2004
as Goldberg
New Tricks
2004
as Harry Gallo
Real Men
2003
as DCI Norton
The Commander
2003
Quicksand
2003
as Michel Cote
Bad Company
2002
as Dragan Adjanic
Spooks
2002
as Bob Hogan
Miranda
2002
as Charles
Spy Game
2001
as Dr. William Byars
Murphy's Law
2001
The Cazalets
2001
as Otto Rose
Lock, Stock...
2000
as Attila
Monarch of the Glen
2000
A Respectable Trade
1998
as Stephen Waring
Getting Hurt
1998
as Steven Gore
A Certain Justice
1998
as Drysdale Laud
Into the Blue
1997
as Alan Dysart
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Tony Carter
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Jack Braxton
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Detective
Famous Fred
1996
as Dad (voice)
Madson
1996
as Det. Insp. Rourke
Death of a Salesman
1996
as Howard
The Turnaround
1995
as Tony Hogan
Sharman
1995
as Tony Hogan
Bugs
1995
as Hurry
Game On
1995
as Brian Kennedy
Piccadilly Circus by Night
1995
as Greg
Genghis Cohn
1994
as Herr Kruger
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
as Captain Hercule Platini
Dirty Weekend
1993
as Bascombe
Peak Practice
1993
as Mr. Lockwood
Heartbeat
1992
as Keith Hibbert
Heartbeat
1992
as Edgar Faussett
As Time Goes By
1992
as Alex Duncan
Barbed Wire
1991
as Wilson
Mountains of the Moon
1990
as William
Dark Obsession
1990
as Raul
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
Flying in the Branches
1989
as Michael
A Taste for Death
1988
as Dominic Swayne
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
as Warder
Red Dwarf
1988
as Captain Hercule Platini
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Warder
An Affair in Mind
1988
as Detective Inspector Brodd
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Angus Norris
The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Barry Banks
Casualty
1986
as Geoff Marks
Casualty
1986
as Russell Miller
Casualty
1986
as Brian Carroll
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
as Thomas Walshingham
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
as Elton John
In the Secret State
1985
as James Quitman
Dalgliesh
1983
as Dominic Swayne
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Naples Street Kid
Sweet Wine of Youth
1979
Van der Valk
1972
as Willem Maas
Albatross
as Father