
Born Donald Francis Henderson in Leystonstone, 1931, Don Henderson was an English actor of stage, television and screen. He was best known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in a trilogy of popular Granada Television police drama series; The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman. Following the end of Bulman, Henderson starred as the priest Frank Kane in the BBC drama series The Paradise Club, penned by Bulman creator Murray Smith. Henderson starred in several cult and sci fi serials and films, most notably in the first Star Wars movie in which he played General Tagge, and Doctor Who and Red Dwarf. Prior to acting, Henderson was a dental technician in the army and a detective sergeant in the Essex constabulary, but he resigned when he found he had sympathy for the criminals he was obliged to arrest. He was married twice, firstly to Hilary who died in 1977, and then to the actress Shirley Stelfox, whom he met filming The XYY Man. The pair set up home in Stratford-Upon-Avon and appeared together professionally many times until his death from throat cancer in 1997.

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宇宙船レッド・ドワーフ号

A Killer in Every Corner

Dandelion Dead

Doctor Who

Kurtuluş

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Pat and Margaret

Dick Turpin

The New Statesman

2point4 Children

Bottle Boys

Theatre 625

Maigret

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

Strangers

バロン

The Baby of Mâcon

Callan

The Littlest Horse Thieves

Minder

Screen Two

Poldark

Bulman

Thriller

The Detectives

Cracker

Dempsey and Makepeace

The BFG

Play for Today

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Casualty

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

The Prince and the Pauper

Preaching to the Perverted

Brannigan

Voyage of the Damned

Scorpion Tales

The XYY Man

The Trial

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

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The Paradise Club

Making Out

Van der Valk

The Protectors

The Wind in the Willows

The Finishing Line

As You Like It

The Enigma Files

Warship

Dead Head

The Island

Squaring the Circle

BBC Play of the Month

The Ghoul

Danielle Steel's Zoya

White Angel

Miss Queencake

Tomorrow Calling

Carry On Columbus

Angels

Annika

Tank Malling

The War That Never Ends

Footsteps

The Secret World of Polly Flint

Danton's Death

Across the Andes by Frog

My Friend Walter

Blanc de Chine

Gotcha / Campion's Interview

One Day at a Time

Atlantis

A Crack in the Ice

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole