Ian McNeice

Ian McNeice
Birth date:	2 October 1950
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Winston Churchill
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	2010-12, 2016-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Quatermass, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Edge of Darkness, Around the World in 80 Days, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, A Life Less Ordinary, David Copperfield, Dune, Conspiracy, Children of Dune, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Doc Martin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rome, The Black Dahlia, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Ian McNeice (born 2 October 1950) is an English screen, stage, and television actor. In the Doctor Who universe, McNeice has most notably played Winston Churchill on television and audio. He is best known for playing Bert Large in the British drama series Doc Martin.

For the Big Finish Doctor Who audio series, he voiced Zeus in Immortal Beloved and Reginald Harcourt in The Renaissance Man.

He played Winston Churchill in the Doctor Who television stories The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song.

In 2016, he reprised the role of Churchill for Big Finish, beginning in volume one of The Churchill Years. With the character serving as narrator for the stories within, McNeice also voiced the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in place of their original actors. He went on to play this role in Ravenous, as well.

He had previously played Churchill in the Royal National Theatre's 2008 production of Never So Good, in which Anthony Calf played Anthony Eden, Churchill's successor as Conservative leader and Prime Minister.

Acting roles

As Winston Churchill

Television

Series 5

• The Beast Below
• Victory of the Daleks
• The Pandorica Opens

Series 6

• The Wedding of River Song

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Subterfuge

Ravenous

• Their Finest Hour

The Third Doctor Adventures

• Operation: Hellfire

The Churchill Years

• The Churchill Years: Volume One
  • The Oncoming Storm
  • Hounded
  • Living History
  • The Chartwell Metamorphosis
• The Churchill Years: Volume Two
  • Young Winston
  • Human Conflict
  • I Was Churchill's Double
  • Churchill Victorious

Other roles

Audio

Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Immortal Beloved - Zeus

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Renaissance Man - Reginald Harcourt

External links

• Ian McNeice at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account