Terence Rigby

Actor Jan 2 (died age 71) Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK 1955–2008 (53 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film credits including Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Dies, Essex Boys and Watership Down. On television, he memorably played police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running 1970s Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly: Taskforce, as well as starring in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Crossroads, Common as Muck and The Beiderbecke Affair.

Known For

Film

Tomorrow Never Dies

General Bukharin

Film

Mona Lisa Smile

Dr. Edward Staunton

Film

Watership Down

Silver (voice)

Film

Get Carter

Gerald Fletcher

Film

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Roy Bland

Film

Plunkett & Macleane

Harrison

Film

Accident

Plain Clothed Policeman

Film

The Dogs of War

Hackett

Filmography

Acting (73)

Movies (33)

Flick

as Creeper Martin

Colour Me Kubrick

as Norman

Mona Lisa Smile

as Dr. Edward Staunton

6.9

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

as Henry Caldicot

Essex Boys

as Henry Hobbs

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

1999

as Sydow

Plunkett & Macleane

as Harrison

Simon Magus

as Bratislav

Great Expectations

as Pumbleneck

The Student Prince

as Mr. Garter

Tomorrow Never Dies

as General Bukharin

Funny Bones

as Billy Mann

England, My England

as Captain Henry Cooke

The Young Americans

as Sidney Callow

The Children

as The Duke of Mendip

4.9

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as Det. Supt. George Reade

Scandal

as James Burge

Testimony

as Joseph Stalin

Lace 2

as Jo Stiarkoz

The Sign of Four

1983

as Inspector Layton

6.6

The Falklands Factor

1983

as William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Anyone for Denis

as Major

The Muscle Market

as Bernard

The Dogs of War

as Hackett

High Tide

as Matthews

Watership Down

as Silver (voice)

No Man's Land

as Briggs

The Mayor's Charity

as Mr. Brabazon

The Homecoming

as Joey

Get Carter

as Gerald Fletcher

Girl on the M1

as Jack

The Old Banger

1970

as John Partridge

Accident

1967

as Plain Clothed Policeman

6.3

Television (40)

Great Expectations

1999

as Pumblechook

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Ian Frasier

7.5

Born to Run

1997

as Burke Flitch

Our Friends in the North

as Berger

Common As Muck

as Dougie Hodd

Heartbeat

as Ronnie Brown

Performance

as Fred Voles

The Beiderbecke Connection

as Big Al

Lovejoy

as John Hill

The Beiderbecke Affair

1985

as Big Al

7.8

The Detective

1985

as Det. Asst. Commissioner Mars

Lace

as Jo Stiarkoz

Travelling Man

as George Jackson

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Doctor Watson

Bird of Prey

as Duggan

Airline

as Ernie Cade

Anyone for Denis?

as Major

Anyone for Denis?

1982

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

1981

as Thomas Barlow (uncredited)

5.0

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979

as Roy Bland

7.6

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Roy Bland

Armchair Thriller

as Matthews

Edward and Mrs Simpson

1978

as Stanley Bruce

6.2

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

as Mr. Perivale Blythe

6.9

Armchair 30

1973

as Swampy

Van der Valk

1972

as Karl Vessem

5.8

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Det. Sgt. Bates

Play for Today

as Bernard

Tales of Unease

as John Partridge

Softly Softly: Task Force

as PC Henry Snow

ITV Playhouse

as Mr Babcock

Callan

The Informer

as Lomax

Public Eye

as Harry

Crossroads

The Saint

as Charlie Mason

Sunday-Night Play

as Merchant's son

No Hiding Place

as Chopper Martin

Armchair Theatre

as Jack

Dixon of Dock Green

as PC Smith