Simon MacCorkindale
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. He spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father serving as an Officer with the Royal Air Force. Poor eyesight prevented him following a similar career in the RAF, so he instead planned to become a theatre director. Training at the Theatre of Arts in London, he started work as an actor, making his West End debut in 1974. He went on to appear in numerous roles in television, including the series I, Claudius and Jesus of Nazareth, before starring as Simon Doyle in the film Death on the Nile. This proved to be a breakthrough role and allowed him to move to the United States, where he appeared in a variety of films and TV series including Quatermass, The Riddle of the Sands, The Sword and the Sorcerer, and Jaws 3-D.
In 1983, MacCorkindale starred in the short-lived series Manimal as the lead character, Dr. Jonathan Chase, before taking up the longer-running role of lawyer Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s he directed and produced many stage, TV and film productions through his company Amy International Artists, such as the film Stealing Heaven (1988). Moving to Canada, he starred as Peter Sinclair in the series Counterstrike for three years. He returned to the United Kingdom in 2002 and joined the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty, appearing in the role of Harry Harper for six years until 2008.
Acted in
A Closed Book
2012
as Andrew Boles
13Hrs
2010
as Duncan
Blizzard: Race to the Pole
2007
as Narrator
Nile
2004
as Himself - Narrator
New Tricks
2004
as Sir David Bryant
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
as Jack McCabe
Relic Hunter
1999
as Tafik / Fabrice De Viega
The Girl Next Door
1999
as Steve Vandermeer
Mentors
1999
as Oscar Wilde
Wing Commander
1999
as Flight Boss
Running Wild
1998
as Walton Baden Smythe
Water War
1998
as Peter Gregory
Earth: Final Conflict
1997
as Dennis Robillard
La Femme Nikita
1997
as Alec Chandler
While My Pretty One Sleeps
1997
as Jack Campbell
Family of Cops
1995
as Adam Novacek
At the Midnight Hour
1995
as Richard Keaton
The Way to Dusty Death
1995
as Johnny Harlow
No Greater Love
1995
as Patrick Kelly
Counterstrike
1990
as Peter Sinclair
Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet
1987
as Mark Jamieson
Casualty
1986
as Harry Harper
Obsessive Love
1984
as Glenn Stevens
Natural World
1983
Manimal
1983
as Jonathan Chase
Manimal
1983
as Jonathan Chase
Jaws 3-D
1983
as Philip FitzRoyce
The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
1983
Falcon's Gold
1982
as Hank Richards
An Outpost of Progress
1982
Matt Houston
1982
The Sword and the Sorcerer
1982
as Mikah
Falcon Crest
1981
as Greg Reardon
The Manions of America
1981
as David Clement
Dynasty
1981
Macbeth
1981
as Macduff
Visitor from the Grave
1980
as Harry
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Harry
Cabo Blanco
1980
as Lewis Clarkson
The Quatermass Conclusion
1979
as Joe Kapp
Quatermass
1979
as Joe Kapp
The Riddle of the Sands
1979
as Arthur Davies
Hart to Hart
1979
Death on the Nile
1978
as Simon Doyle
Life of Shakespeare
1978
as Sir Thomas Walsingham
Will Shakespeare
1978
The Doombolt Chase
1978
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
1978
as Simon Doyle (archive footage)
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Lucius
Beasts: Baby
1976
as Peter Gilkes
Beasts
1976
as Peter Gilkes
Romeo and Juliet
1976
as Paris
I, Claudius
1976
Juggernaut
1974
as No. 1 Helmsman
Within These Walls
1974