Derek Newark

Derek Newark
150px Derek Newark in the 1970s
Born	Derek John Newark (1933-06-08)8 June 1933 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Died	London, England
Cause of death	Heart attack brought on by Liver failure
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1961 -1996

Derek Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor.

He appeared in a large number of film and television roles, including The Baron (1967), The Avengers (three episodes in the 1960s), Z-Cars (six episodes between 1969 to 1972), Barlow in the regular role of Det. Insp. Tucker (1974–1975) and various other minor roles. He appeared in episodes two to four of the first Doctor Who story An Unearthly Child in 1963. Later he appeared opposite Jon Pertwee in the 1970 story Inferno. Newark also played the role of Spooner, an ill-tempered former Red Devil (Britain's elite paratroopers) turned professional wrestler in the series Rising Damp.

In the 1970s he became more involved in the theatre, spending nearly a decade at the Royal National Theatre. While there he was part of the company that opened the current home and was a cornerstone of the residential company that worked in the smaller Cottesloe Theatre under Bill Bryden's direction. His most important roles there were Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and the world premiere of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross' where he played Shelley Levene (a role later played on screen by Jack Lemmon) and Malcolm in Alan Ayckbourn's 'Bedroom Farce', which also played in the West End and on Broadway. He also a created the role of Roote in Harold Pinter's play 'The Hothouse' which premiered in 1980 in a production directed by Pinter himself. Pinter went on to play the part himself in a later revival. In 1982, he played Martin Bormann in the TV series Inside the Third Reich.

In the cinema Newark was particularly effective as Jessard, Sgt. Johnson's (Sean Connery) sidekick in the powerful police drama The Offence (Sidney Lumet 1972).

Derek Newark died of a heart attack, brought on by liver failure after years of alcoholism, on 11 August 1998 in West London.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	The System The Black Torment	Alfred Coachman Tom	uncredited
1965	The City Under the Sea The Little Ones	Dan Det. Wilson
1966	The Blue Max	Ziegel
1968	Where Eagles Dare	German Major	uncredited
1969	Oh! What A Lovely War	Shooting Gallery proprietor
1970	The Breaking of Bumbo Fragment of Fear	C.S.M Peters Sgt. Matthews
1971	Dad's Army	Regimental Sergeant Major
1972	The Offence	Frank Jessard
1974	The Black Windmill	Monitoring Policeman
1976	Escape From the Dark	Unknown
1987	Bellman and True	Guv'nor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episodes
1961 1963 1965	ITV Play of the Week	Dragoon Sjt Private Varley Ward	Season 7, Episode 8: ''Sergeant Musgrave's Dance'' Season 8, Episode 46: ''End of Conflict'' Season 10, Episode 19: ''Women Beware Women''
1962	Out of This World	Inspector Wright	Season 1, Episode 9: ''Vanishing Act''
1963	The Plane Makers BBC Sunday-Night Play	Alf Skinner Fred George	Season 1, Episode 14: ''The Blunt Approach'' Season 4, Episode 40: ''You Can't Throw Your Mates'' Season 4, Episode 48: ''Plain Jane''
1963 1970	Doctor Who	Za Greg Sutton	Season 1: (3 episodes) Season 7: (7 episodes)
1964	No Hiding Place The Villains Redcap The Wednesday Play	Sgt. Wallis D.S Brough Mess Sergeant Private Postnikov	Season 6, Episode 5: ''Line of Fire'' Season 2, Episode 3: ''Victim'' Season 1, Episode 1: ''It's What Comes After'' Season 1, Episode 2: ''A Crack in the Ice''
1964 1967 1968	The Avengers	Johnson Crawford Vickers	Season 3, Episode 20: ''Trojan Horse'' Season 5, Episode 1: ''From Venus with Love'' Season 7, Episode 20: ''Wish You Were Here''
1965	Front Page Story Sergeant Musgrave's Dance Knock on Any Door	Joe Harwood Private Hurst Flynn	Season 1: (3 episodes) Season 1, Episode 1 Season 1, Episode 7: ''There's Always an Angle''
1966	Softly, Softly The Likely Lads Blackmail Drama 61-67	Alec Bridges Duggie Unknown Sgt. Dangerfield	Season 1, Episode 4: ''It Doesn't Grow on Trees'' Season 3, Episode 7: ''Love and Marriage'' Season 2, Episode 7: ''The Haunting of Aubrey Hopkiss'' Season 6, Episode 3: ''Conduct to the Prejudice''
1966 1967	The Baron	Cavin Baggio Lucas	Season 1: (3 episodes)
1967	Theatre 625 Callan The White Rabbit The Gamblers ITV Playhouse Vanity Fair	Col. Karl Ernst Lodor Prison guard Redgrave Sgt. Huber Mc Murdo	Season 4, Episode 24: ''Firebrand'' Season 1, Episode 6: ''You Should Have Got Here Sooner'' Season 1, Episode 1: ''O Absalom'' Season 1, Episode 1: ''Read 'em and Weep'' Season 1, Episode 5: ''The Stories of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn in the Flesh'' Season 1, Episode 5: ''Vanitas Vanitatum''
1967 1968	Man in a Suitcase	Rudy Maurice	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1967 1968	The Saint	Carl German	Season 5, Episode 20: ''The Counterfeit Countess'' Season 6, Episode 14: ''Where the Money Is''
1968	Half Hour Story Coronation Street The Caesars Mr. Rose	Bill Bolton Detective Inspector Sharp Agrippa Postumus Thomas Landry	Season 2, Episode 5: ''Out of the Playground'' 2 Episodes Season 1, Episode 1: ''Augustus'' Season 3, Episode 5: ''Free and Easy''
1968 1969 1972	Z-Cars	Dunnock Matt Colley Harry Hayes	Season 6: (4 episodes) Season 7: (2 episodes)
1968 1971 1972	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Bert Gregson Dolan The Manager	Season 4, Episode 4: ''The Chequers Manoeuvre'' Season 7: (2 episodes)
1969	The Champions Judge Dee	Kruger Corporal	Season 1, Episode 28: ''The Final Countdown'' Season 1, Episode 6: ''The Curse of the Lacquer Screen''
1970	Manhunt Department S Big Brother	Henri Clark Miller	Season 1, Episode 2: ''Break-Up'' Season 2, Episode 12: ''The Last Train to Redbridge'' Season 1, Episode 4: ''There's Always a First Time''
1971	The Ten Commandments Paul Temple ITV Saturday Night Theatre Dixon of Dock Green Jason King The Persuaders!	Bernard Williams Det. Insp. Hilton Pete Eddie Brown Hartman Lloyd	Season 1, Episode 3: ''Be Lucky'' Season 4, Episode 6: ''The Quick and the Dead'' Season 4, Episode 1: ''The Wedding Gift'' Season 18, Episode 2: ''The Fighter'' Season 1, Episode 8: ''A Red Red Rose Forever'' Season 1, Episode 12: ''That's Me Over There''
1971 1972	Budgie	Det. Insp. Bryant	Season 1, Episode 13: ''And in Again'' Season 2: (2 episodes)
1972	The Edwardians	Meadows	Season 1, Episode 5: ''Baden-Powell''
1973	The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Justice New Scotland Yard Spy Trap The Adventures of Black Beauty	Bunter Tom Bradley Harry Logan Colonel Kretmar Fletcher Bellows	Season 1: (3 episodes) Season 2, Episode 7: ''After All, What Is a Lie?'' Season 3, Episode 1: ''Where's Harry?'' Season 2, Episode 2: ''Anything Legal Considered'' Season 1, Episode 21: ''Two of a Kind'' Season 2, Episode 4: ''Good Neighbours''
1973 1982	Crown Court	Robert Scard Leonard Hooper Sgt. Waxloe	Season 2: (4 episodes) Season 11, Episode 28: ''Soldier, Soldier: Part 1''
1974	The Protectors Diamonds on Wheels Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colour QB VII My Name Is Harry Worth A Little Bit of Wisdom	Reece Mercer Mr. Graham Mick Security guard	Season 2, Episode 19: ''The Tiger and the Goat'' TV Movie Season 20: (3 episodes) Season 1, Episode 2: ''Part Three'' Season 1, Episode 4: ''Don't Bank on It'' Season 1, Episode 6: ''And I Mean That Most Sincerely''
1974- 1975	Barlow	Det. Insp. Eddie Tucker	Season 3: (7 episodes) Season 4: (8 episodes)
1974 1975	Rising Damp	Spooner	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1975	The Two Ronnies Churchill's People	Det. Insp. Tucker Sir John Dudley	Season 4, Episode 1 Season 1, Episode 13: '' The Whip of Heaven''
1978	Rumpole of the Bailey Born and Bred Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em	Basil Delgado Dawson Mr. Hunt	Season 1, Episode 6: ''Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade'' Season 1, Episode 5: ''Ever So Goosey'' Season 3, Episode 5: ''Motorbike''
1979	Return of the Saint Citizen Smith	Wright Car salesman	Season 1, Episode 20: ''The Obono Affair'' Season 3, Episode 4: ''The Big Job''
1980	Bedroom Farce	Malcom	TV Movie
1981	The Antagonists Private Schulz Only Fools and Horses... Juliet Bravo Seconds Out	Engineering Officer Publican Eric the Policeman Councillor Jack Winterbottom Joe Brindle	Season 1, (2 episodes) Season 1, Episode 3 Season 1, Episode 6: ''The Russians are Coming'' Season 2, Episode 9: ''Gorgeous'' Season 2, Episode 1: ''Round 7''
1982	Inside the Third Reich	Martin Bormann	TV Movie
1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies Dramarama	General Stoessel Mr. Bateson	Season 1, Episode 2: ''Prelude to War'' Season 1, Episode 4: ''Jack and the Computer''
1984	Travelling Man Just Good Friends	Det. Chief Supt. Sullivan Eddie Brown	Season 1: (2 episodes) Season 2: (2 episodes)
1985	Hitler's S.S: Portrait of Evil	Theodor Eicke	TV Movie
1986	Lytton's Diary Chance in a Million Dempsey and Makepeace The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest	Charlie Rigby Arthur Corman Colonel Pietruska	Season 2, Episode 2: ''Rule of Engagement'' Season 2, Episode 3: ''The Lost Weekend'' Season 3, Episode 10: ''The Guardian Angel'' TV Movie
1987	Smith & Jones Harry's Kingdom	UnknownBob Roberts	Season 4, Episode 2 TV Movie
1988	Singles Tickets for the Titanic Screenplay War & Remembrance A Taste for Death	Mr. Broadbent Brock Mr. Vernon Untersturmfuhrer Klinger Gordon Halliwell	Season 1, Episode 4: ''Money, Money, Money'' Season 2, Episode 1: ''Pastoral Care'' Season 3, Episode 10: ''Starlings'' Season 1, Episode 2 Season 1: (4 episodes)
1989	Shadow of the Noose The Nineteenth Hole Saracen	Van der Hogh Mr. Bennett Metcalf	Season 1, Episode 4: ''Beside the Seaside'' Season 1: (7 episodes) Season 1, Episode 8: ''Crossfire''
1989 1993 1996	The Bill	Eric Taylor Jim Whatley Mike Walker	Season 5, Episode 77: Grieg Versus Taylor'' Season 9, Episode 138: ''Cutting Edge'' Season 12, Episode 130: ''Telling Tales''
1991	Madness An Actor's Life for Me	Reenactments Bill Mortimer	Season 1: (2 episodes) Season 1, Episode 5: ''Night of the Living Dead''
1992	Screen One	Jimmy	Season 4, Episode 5: ''Seconds Out''
1994	99-1	Hicks	Season 1, Episode 4: ''Where the Money Is''

Theatre work

• Bedroom Farce (1977)
• The Hothouse (1980)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1982)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
• Golden Boy (1984)

External links

• Derek Newark at the Internet Movie Database