Personal Info
Birth date
1945-02-12 (80 Years)
Day of death
2016-04-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wales, UK
Also known as
Гарет Томас
Gareth Thomas
Biography
From Wikipedia Gareth Daniel Thomas (12 February 1945 – 13 April 2016) was a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role as Roj Blake in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7, but appeared in many other films and television programmes, including Shem in the ITV sci-fi series Star Maidens and Adam Brake in the fantasy series Children of the Stones. From 1999 to 2005, Thomas took part in 12 of 14 CD episodes of MJTV's original audio comedy sci-fi drama series Soldiers of Love, playing camp Welsh TV host Hywel Hammond and villain of the piece Aaron Arkenstein. In 2001 he appeared in Storm Warning, an audio drama based on Doctor Who by Big Finish Productions. He also played the part of Kalendorf in the Big Finish Productions Dalek Empire series. In 2006 he appeared as a guest star in the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, in the episode "Ghost Machine". In 2012, Thomas returned to the role of "Roj Blake" in Big Finish Productions' Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, a series of dramatic readings which take place during Series One before the death of Olag Gan. Thomas stars as "Blake" in Counterfeit by Peter Anghelides and False Positive by Eddie Robson. In 2013 he appeared as Brother Cadfael in Middle Ground Theatre Company's adaption of The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters. Thomas died of heart failure on 13 April 2016, he was 71.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.534
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.Sherlock Holmes
8.117
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.Torchwood
7.325
Overview:
The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.Public Eye
7.8
Overview:
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.Justice
6
Overview:
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.M.I. High
6.2
Overview:
A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.Maigret
7
Overview:
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.Hammer House of Horror
7.1
Overview:
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.Space Cadets
7.5
Overview:
Space Cadets is a comedy panel game broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997. It was presented by "High Commander" Greg Proops with Bill Bailey and Craig Charles as the "Space Captains". It ran for just one series with 10 episodes. Like the BBC's Have I Got News for You, the contestants were celebrities and the show was played mainly for laughs. Bestselling author Terry Pratchett once appeared as a guest. When the contestants were asked who was Britain's most shoplifted author, Pratchett immediately answered "I am!" which was the correct answer.Casualty
6.139
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Star Maidens
3.2
Overview:
Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series was partly financed by a German company, Werbung im Rundfunk.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Children of the Stones
6.577
Overview:
In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.How Green Was My Valley
6.5
Overview:
Life is harsh but uncomplicated and happy for the Morgan family in their coal mining village in the Rhondda Valleys. But as the 20th century approaches, the younger generation is restless.Taggart
6.3
Overview:
Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.Special Branch
4.3
Overview:
Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.1
Overview:
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.Blake's 7
7.2
Overview:
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Morgan's Boy
NYR
Overview:
Lee, a teenager from Manchester, goes to stay with his uncle Morgan on his remote farm in Wales. Lee struggles to build a relationship with his uncle and make friends with a local boy as Morgan struggles to hold on to his farm.Peter and Paul
7
Overview:
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.The Strangerers
6
Overview:
The Strangerers is a British television comedy drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000. A single series was made with a total of 9 episodes. The show ended on a cliffhanger. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.Knights of God
5
Overview:
Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, a writer who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama. Set in the year 2020, it showed a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously. It starred George Winter as Gervase Owen Edwards, the Welsh son of a resistance leader, and John Woodvine as the Prior Mordrin, leader of the titular cult. Patrick Troughton played Arthur, the apparent leader of the English resistance, and Julian Fellowes played Mordrin's ambitious and ruthless second-in-command, Brother Hugo.Juggernaut
6.2
Overview:
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.Quatermass and the Pit
6.6
Overview:
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.The Citadel
7.5
Overview:
A faithful ten part BBC adaptation of A.J. Cronin's book of the same name published in 1937 about a young Scottish doctor (Ben Cross) trying to find a place for himself in the dysfunctional medical system of Wales and England in the 1920s and early 1930s.Sutherland's Law
9
Overview:
Sutherland's Law is a television series m The series had originated as a stand alone edition of the portmanteau programme Drama Playhouse in 1972 in which Derek Francis played Sutherland and was then commissioned as an ongoing series. Sutherland's Law dealt with the duties of the Procurator Fiscal in a small Scottish town.Acting
2018Blake's Seven as Unknown
2010Made in Romania as Gary Devane
2007M.I. High (1 Episode) as Unknown
2006Torchwood (1 Episode) as Ed Morgan
2005Distant Shores (12 Episodes) as Charles McCallister
2003Hamlet as Claudius
2002Harold Shipman: Doctor Death as Rev Denis Thomas
2001Possessions as Inspector Sabworth
2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000The Strangerers (1 Episode) as Police Sergeant
1997Space Cadets (1 Episode) as Self
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Huw Mostyn
1996The Witch's Daughter as Dan Mackay
1995Crown Prosecutor (2 Episodes) as Harry Thomsen
1994Sparrow as Corrado
1992Waterland as Publican
1992Heartbeat (6 Episodes) as Nathaniel Clegghorn
1992Maigret (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991The Chestnut Soldier as Idris Llewelyn
1990Emlyn's Moon as Idris Llewelyn
1987Knights of God (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Jim Bailey
1984Morgan's Boy (8 Episodes) as Morgan Thomas
1984Morgan's Boy as Morgan
1984Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Joseph Harrison
1983Taggart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1983Bewitched as Owen Bosworth
1983The Citadel (10 Episodes) as Dr. Philip Denny
1982The Bell (4 Episodes) as James Tayper Pace
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as Towers
1981Peter and Paul (2 Episodes) as Julius
1980Visitor from the Grave as Richard/Gupta
1980Hammer House of Horror (1 Episode) as Richard / Gupta
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Telfer
1978Blake's 7 (1, 27 Episode) as Unknown, Roj Blake
1977Blasphemy at the Old Bailey as G. Robertson
1977Gotcha / Campion's Interview as Ton
1977Children of the Stones (7 Episodes) as Adam Brake
1976Star Maidens (13 Episodes) as Shem
1976Victorian Scandals (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975How Green Was My Valley (6 Episodes) as Rev. Gruffydd
1975Breath as Rodney Hamer
1974Juggernaut as Liverpool Joiner
1974Dummy Run as Commentator
1974Smokey Joe's Revenge as Unknown
1973Sutherland's Law (41 Episodes) as Unknown
1973Mafia Junction as Trenchcoated Detective (uncredited)
1972Stocker's Copper as Herbert Griffin
1972The Ragman's Daughter as Tom
1971Justice (1 Episode) as Gordon Mostyn
1970Play for Today (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1969Special Branch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Quatermass and the Pit as Workman (uncredited)
1967Zigger Zagger as Unknown
1965Public Eye (1, 1 Episode) as Briggs, Tom Lewis
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Achillas